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The Cultural Construction of Sexuality
About this book
First Published in 1987. Illustrates the argument that sexuality is not a `thing in itself' but a concept that can only be understood with reference to economic, political and social factors.
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- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction – Pat Caplan
- 1 Questions of identity – Jeffrey Weeks
- 2 ‘Facts of life’ or the eroticization of women’s oppression? Sexology and the social construction of heterosexuality – Margaret Jackson
- 3 Reason, desire, and male sexuality – Victor J. Seidler
- 4 A note on gender iconography: the vagina – Shirley Ardener
- 5 Social and cognitive aspects of female sexuality in Jamaica – Carol P. MacCormack and Alizon Draper
- 6 Honour and shame: the control of women’s sexuality and group identity in Naples – Victoria Goddard
- 7 Beyond the Samoan controversy in anthropology: a history of sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji – Allen Abramson
- 8 ‘Selling her kiosk’: Kikuyu notions of sexuality and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya – Nici Nelson
- 9 Rank, gender, and homosexuality: Mombasa as a key to understanding sexual options – Gill Shepherd
- 10 Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya – Pat Caplan
- Name index
- Subject index
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