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Understanding Global Sexualities : New Frontiers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136278136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.7
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Sexuality encore -- Global transformations and sexual subjectivities -- 2 Normalised transgressions: consumption, the market, and sexuality in Mexico -- 3 'The personal is political and the political is personal': sexuality, politics and social movements in modern Iran -- 4 The paradox of pluralisation: masculinities, androgyny and male anxiety in contemporary China -- 5 Rights amidst wrongs: the paradoxes of gender rights-based approaches towards AIDS in South Africa -- 6 The ambivalent sexual subject: HIV prevention and male-to-male intimacy in India -- Sexualities in practice -- 7 'No one saw us': reputation as an axis of sexual identity -- 8 Beyond resistance: gay and lala recreation in Beijing -- 9 The limits of 'lesbian': nomenclature and normativity in feminist approaches to sexuality, gender and development -- 10 Disability, sexuality and sexual health -- 11 Bodies and their signs: acknowledging and interpreting erotic responses -- Sexualities in theory, policy and programmatic contexts -- 12 Some notes on new frontiers of sexuality and globalisation -- 13 Transnationalism in sexuality studies: an 'Africanist' perspective -- 14 The right to say no: gender empowerment in US global HIV-prevention policy -- 15 Sexuality and desire in racialised contexts -- 16 From research to policy and practice -- 17 Reflections on the new frontiers in sexualities research -- Index.
Summary: This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which there is major and continuing debate in the field of sexuality. 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Sexuality encore -- Global transformations and sexual subjectivities -- 2 Normalised transgressions: consumption, the market, and sexuality in Mexico -- 3 'The personal is political and the political is personal': sexuality, politics and social movements in modern Iran -- 4 The paradox of pluralisation: masculinities, androgyny and male anxiety in contemporary China -- 5 Rights amidst wrongs: the paradoxes of gender rights-based approaches towards AIDS in South Africa -- 6 The ambivalent sexual subject: HIV prevention and male-to-male intimacy in India -- Sexualities in practice -- 7 'No one saw us': reputation as an axis of sexual identity -- 8 Beyond resistance: gay and lala recreation in Beijing -- 9 The limits of 'lesbian': nomenclature and normativity in feminist approaches to sexuality, gender and development -- 10 Disability, sexuality and sexual health -- 11 Bodies and their signs: acknowledging and interpreting erotic responses -- Sexualities in theory, policy and programmatic contexts -- 12 Some notes on new frontiers of sexuality and globalisation -- 13 Transnationalism in sexuality studies: an 'Africanist' perspective -- 14 The right to say no: gender empowerment in US global HIV-prevention policy -- 15 Sexuality and desire in racialised contexts -- 16 From research to policy and practice -- 17 Reflections on the new frontiers in sexualities research -- Index.

This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which there is major and continuing debate in the field of sexuality. 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.

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