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First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Patricia Caplan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415040136
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Pat Caplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113610660X
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.
Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1981-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521239653
This 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross-cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex-related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies of male self-sufficiency in South American myth are among the subjects discussed. Taken in their totality, these essays demonstrate that cultural notions sexuality and gender are seldom straightforward extrapolations of biological facts but are the outcome of social and cultural processes. The book is not only a compendium of symbolic approaches to gender but is also an important statement of the theoretical directions in anthropological research in this field.
Author : Evelyne Micollier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1134393504
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship systems, matrimonial strategies, gender, power relations, and the relevance of cultural constructs such as Confucianism and Taoism for the analysis of sexual cultures in Asia.
Author : Richard Guy Parker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781857288117
This work 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.
Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Contemporary Societies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393937800
An affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective.
Author : Anne Fausto-Sterling
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1541672909
Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.
Author : Agnieszka Kościańska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253053102
Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.
Author : Clare Chambers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271045949
Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous individuals often choose to do things that harm themselves or undermine their equality. In particular, women often choose to participate in practices of sexual inequality&—cosmetic surgery, gendered patterns of work and childcare, makeup, restrictive clothing, or the sexual subordination required by membership in certain religious groups. In this book, Clare Chambers argues that this predicament poses a fundamental challenge to many existing liberal and multicultural theories that dominate contemporary political philosophy. Chambers argues that a theory of justice cannot ignore the influence of culture and the role it plays in shaping choices. If cultures shape choices, it is problematic to use those choices as the measure of the justice of the culture. Drawing upon feminist critiques of gender inequality and poststructuralist theories of social construction, she argues that we should accept some of the multicultural claims about the importance of culture in shaping our actions and identities, but that we should reach the opposite normative conclusion to that of multiculturalists and many liberals. Rather than using the idea of social construction to justify cultural respect or protection, we should use it to ground a critical stance toward cultural norms. The book presents radical proposals for state action to promote sexual and cultural justice.
Author : Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780826515599
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