Understanding global sexualities : new frontiers

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Author:

Aggleton, Peter, 1952-

ISBN:

9780415673471

9780203111291

Publication Information:

Abingdon [UK] ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Physical Description:

xi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Sexuality, culture and health series

Sexuality, culture and health series.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Sexuality encore / Henrietta L. Moore -- Global transformations and sexual subjectivities -- 2.Normalised transgressions: consumption, the market, and sexuality in Mexico / Ana Amuchastegui -- 3.`The personal is political and the political is personal': sexuality, politics and social movements in modem Iran / Pardis Mahdavi -- 4.The paradox of pluralisation: masculinities, androgyny and male anxiety in contemporary China / Derek Hird -- 5.Rights amidst wrongs: the paradoxes of gender rights-based approaches towards AIDS in South Africa / Mark Hunter -- 6.The ambivalent sexual subject: HIV prevention and male-to-male intimacy in India / Paul Boyce -- Sexnalities in practice -- 7.`No one saw us': reputation as an axis of sexual identity / Harriet Phinney -- 8.Beyond resistance: gay and lala recreation in Beijing / William F. Schroeder --

Contents note continued: 9.The limits of `lesbian': nomenclature and normativity in feminist approaches to sexuality, gender and development / Carolyn H. Williams -- 10.Disability, sexuality and sexual health / Leslie Swartz -- 11.Bodies and their signs: acknowledging and interpreting erotic responses / Vincent Colapietro -- Sexualities in theory, policy and programmatic contexts -- 12.Some notes on new frontiers of sexuality and globalisation / Tom Boellstorff -- 13.Transnationalism in sexuality studies: an `Africanist' perspective / Marc Epprecht -- 14.The right to say no: gender empowerment in US global HIV-prevention policy / Anne W. Esacove -- 15.Sexuality and desire in racialised contexts / Mara Viveros Vigoya -- 16.From research to policy and practice / Peter Aggleton -- 17.Reflections on die new frontiers in sexualities research / Jeffrey Weeks.

Subject Term:

Sex.

Sex -- Social aspects.

Sex -- Health aspects.

Added Author:

Aggleton, Peter, 1952-

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Summary

Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become apparent that a number of leading edge critical issues remain.

This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which there is major and continuing debate, for example, about the relationship between sexuality and gender; about the nature and status of heterosexuality; about hetero- and homo-normativity; about the influence and intersection of class, race, age and other factors in sexual trajectories, identities and lifestyles; and about how best to understand the new forms of sexuality that are emerging in both rich world and developing world contexts.

With contributions from leading and new scholars and activists from across the globe, this book highlights tensions or 'flash-points' in contemporary debate, and offers some innovative ways forward in terms of thinking about sexuality - both theoretically and with respect to policy and programme development. An extended essay by Henrietta Moore introduces the volume, and an afterword by Jeffrey Weeks offers pointers for the future.

The contributors bring together a range of experiences and a variety of disciplinary perspectives in engaging with three key themes of sexual subjectivity and global transformations, sexualities in practice, and advancing new thinking on sexuality in policy and programmatic contexts. It is of interest to students, researchers and activists in sexuality, sexual health and gender studies, especially those working from public health, sociological and anthropological perspectives.