Culture, Society And Sexuality

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.

Richard Parker

Chapter 1 Introduction, Richard Parker, Peter Aggleton; Culture, Society and Sexuality; Part 1 Conceptual Frameworks; Chapter 2 Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History, Robert A. Padgug; Chapter 3 Sexual Scripts, William Simon, John H. Gagnon; Chapter 4 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment, Carole S. Vance; Part 2 Gender and Power; Chapter 5 Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, Joan Wallach Scott; Chapter 6 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word, Donna J. Haraway; Chapter 7 'That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua, Roger N. Lancaster; Part 3 From Gender to Sexuality; Chapter 8 Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality, Jeffrey Weeks; Chapter 9 Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality, Gayle S. Rubin; Chapter 10 'The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality, Robert W. Connell, Gary W. Dowsett; Part 4 Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities; Chapter 11 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Adrienne Rich; Chapter 12 The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role, Serena Nanda; Chapter 13 Capitalism and Gay Identity, John D'Emilio; Sexuality, Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS; Part 5 Sexual Classifications; Chapter 14 'Within Four Walls': Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS, Richard Parker; Chapter 15 Silences: 'Hispanics', AIDS, and Sexual Practices, Ana Maria Alonso, Maria Teresa Koreck; Chapter 16 HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations, Stephanie Kane; Part 6 Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS Prevention; Chapter 17 Prostitution Viewed Cross-culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research, Barbara O. de Zalduondo; Chapter 18 Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil, Richard Parker; Chapter 19 Sexuality, Identity and Community: The Experience of MESMAC, Katie Deverell, Alan Prout; Part 7 Sexual Representations and the Politics of AIDS; Chapter 20 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification, Paula Treichler; Chapter 21 Inventing 'African AIDS', Cindy Patton; Chapter 22 Safer Sex as Community Practice, Simon Watney; Part 8 Methodological Approaches; Chapter 23 Sexual Culture, HIV Transmission, and AIDS Research, Richard Parker, Gilbert Herdt, Manuel Carballo; Chapter 24 Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for AIDS Prevention - An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s, Ralph Bolton; Chapter 25 Feminist Methodology and Young People's Sexuality, Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson;