Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 Sexual meanings, health and rights -- Part 5 Gender, power and rights -- 14 Masculinities and globalization: The men and the boys -- 15 Violence, sexuality, and women's lives -- 16 Reproductive and sexual rights: A feminist perspective -- Part 6 Sexual categories and classifications -- 17 HIV, heroin and heterosexual relations -- 18 An explosion of Thai identities: Global queering and re-imagining queer theory -- 19 Bhai-behen, true love, time pass: Friendships and sexual partnerships among youth in an Indian metropolis -- Part 7 Sexual negotiations and transactions -- 20 Masculinity and urban men: Perceived scripts for courtship, romantic, and sexual interactions with women.

21 Some traditional methods are more modern than others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of sexual intimacy in Mexican companionate marriage -- 22 Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda -- Part 8 Contemporary and future challenges -- 23 Gendered scripts and the sexual scene: Promoting sexual subjects among Brazilian teenagers -- 24 HIV - and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: A conceptual framework and implications for action -- 25 Bracketing sexuality: Human rights and sexual orientation - a decade of development and denial at the United Nations -- Subject Index -- Name Index.

Clearly structured and presented, this new and revised edition brings together a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships.

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