Culture, Society And Sexuality

A Reader

Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker, Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135360023
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

Since the beginnings of time, people have been interested in sex - the form it takes, the pleasure it can give, the circumstances in which it occurs, and what it means - both for the individuals concerned and to society more generally. Often seen as a synonym for love, sometimes as an expression of power, and infrequently as a means of exploitation and abuse, sex is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of human behaviour that has been written about by numerous writers and theorists worldwide. This book offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research. It will be of use to students of sociology, cultural studies, and health and behavioural studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Editors' Note
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• Section I Culture, Society and Sexuality
• Part 1 Conceptual Frameworks
• 2 Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History
• 3 Sexual Scripts
• 4 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment
• Part 2 Gender and Power
• 5 Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis
• 6 ‘Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word
• 7 ‘That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua
• Part 3 From Gender to Sexuality
• 8 Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality
• 9 Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality
• 10 ‘The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality
• Part 4 Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities
• 11 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
• 12 The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role
• 13 Capitalism and Gay Identity
• Section II Sexuality, Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS
• Part 5 Sexual Classifications
• 14 ‘Within Four Walls': Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS
• 15 Silences: ‘Hispanics', AIDS, and Sexual Practices
• 16 HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations
• Part 6 Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS Prevention
• 17 Prostitution Viewed Cross-culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research
• 18 Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil
• 19 Sexuality, Identity and Community: The Experience of MESMAC
• Part 7 Sexual Representations and the Politics of AIDS
• 20 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification
• 21 Inventing ‘African AIDS'
• 22 Safer Sex as Community Practice
• Part 8 Methodological Approaches
• 23 Sexual Culture, HIV Transmission, and AIDS Research
• 24 Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for AIDS Prevention – An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s
• 25 Feminist Methodology and Young People's Sexuality
• Index