Constructing sexualities : readings in sexuality, gender, and culture

LaFont, Suzanne, 1954- (Editor).

Summary: Designed to introduce readers to a broad range of relevant ideas and theories and to encourage critical thinking on a variety of sexuality and gender topics, this collection of articles, classic and current, addresses the relationships between sexuality, gender, and culture. The readings include descriptions of variations in sexual and gender ideologies, expressions of sexuality, gender diversity, and global issues. Gay rights, transgendered movements, intersexed awareness, female genital mutilation, male circumcision, AIDS, sex tourism, and the sex.com explosion on the internet are all current issues addressed. --

Record details

ISBN: 013009661X (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780130096616
Physical Description: print
xv, 406 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-406).

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: Researching sexualities and gender -- Part two: The natural history of gender and reproduction -- Part three: Sexual potentialities: lessons from early ethnographies -- Part four: Rites of passage and genital mutilation -- Part five: Marriage and love -- Part six: Constructing and deconstructing bodies -- Part seven: Beyond the binary -- Part eight: Trans-isms/gender/sexual/culture -- Part nine: Same-sex sexualities: culture, desire, and freedom -- Part ten: International encounters: sexualities in the global village -- Part eleven: The right to say no, the right to say yes: gender, sexualities, and self-determination -- Part twelve: The future of sexualities.