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Constructing sexualities : readings in sexuality, gender, and culture

Title

Constructing sexualities : readings in sexuality, gender, and culture / edited by Suzanne LaFont.

Format

Book

Published

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©2003.

Description

xv, 406 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Other contributors

LaFont, Suzanne, 1954-

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-406).

Contents

• Investigating sex : essentialism and constructionism / Jennifer Harding
• Sexing the body : how biologists construct hyman sexuality / Anne Fausto-Sterling
• The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin
• Sex in primitive society / Ruth Benedict
• The animal with the weirdest sex life / Jared Diamond
• Bonodo sex and society : the behavior of a close relative challenges assumptions about male supremacy in human evolution / Frans B.M. de Waal
• Human apes / Alison Jolly
• Prenuptial intercourse between the sexes / Bronislaw Malinowski
• Dani sexuality : a low energy system / Karl Heider with postscript : revisiting Dani sexuality
• Sexual inversion among the Azande / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
• Sex and repression in an Irish folk community / John Messenger
• The geography of genital multilations / James DeMeo
• Unmasking tradition : a Sudanese anthropologist confronts female "circumcision" and its terrible tenacity / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
• Mehinaku men and women : a sociology of marriage, sex and affection / Thomas Gregor
• Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda
• Against love : a treatise on the tyranny of two / Laura Kipnis
• The five sexes : why male and female are not enough / Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Hermaphrodites with attitude : mapping the emergence of intersex political activism / Cheryl Chase
• Hijra and Sädhin : neither man nor woman in India / Serena Nanda
• Lesbians, men-women and two-spirits : homosexuality and gender in native American cultures / Sabine Lang
• Who put the "trans" in transgender? Gender theory and everyday life / Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna
• The gender of Brazilian transgendered prostitutes / Don Kulick
• Sambia sexual culture / Gilbert Herdt
• Culture and women's sexualities / Evelyn Blackwood
• Redirecting sexual orientation : techniques and justifications / Timothy F. Murphy
• Fo love and money : romance tourism in Jamaica / Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont
• Forced to choose : beyond the voluntary v. forced prostitution dichotomy / Jo Doezema
• Arab honor's price : a woman's blood / Douglas Jehl
• Women : wives, mothers, daughters / Chris Jehl
• Negotiating sex and gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography / Carole S. Vance
• ... /Cybersex/nog̲ender/nos̲exuality/nob̲ody.html / Andy Miah
• An orgy of abstinence / Sharon Lerner
• An unfinished revolution : sexuality in the 20th century / Jeffrey Weeks.

Subject headings

Sex role. Sex differences. Sex customs. Gender identity.

Kinsey subjects

Sex customs. Anthropology. Gender role identification.