Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence

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Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence

edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell

University of Wisconsin Press, c2001

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo
  • Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore
  • The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow
  • The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko
  • The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel
  • Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins
  • Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke
  • Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami
  • Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal
  • Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar
  • Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester
  • Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. de Munck
  • Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw
  • A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate

Details

  • NCID
    BA53435424
  • ISBN
    • 0299171604
    • 0299171647
  • LCCN
    00010697
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Madison, Wis.
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 274 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
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