The Cultural construction of sexuality
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The Cultural construction of sexuality
Routledge, 1989, c1987
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Includes bibliographies and indexes
First published in 1987 by Tavistock Publications Ltd
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Questions of identity
- 2: 'Facts of life' or the eroticization of women's oppression? Sexology and the social construction of heterosexuality
- 3: Reason, desire, and male sexuality
- 4: A note on gender iconography: the vagina
- 5: Social and cognitive aspects of female sexuality in Jamaica
- 6: Honour and shame: the control of women's sexuality and group identity in Naples
- 7: Beyond the Samoan controversy in anthropology: a history of sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji 1
- 8: 'Selling her kiosk': Kikuyu notions of sexuality and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya 1
- 9: Rank, gender, and homosexuality: Mombasa as a key to understanding sexual options
- 10: Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya 1
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