The Cultural Construction Of Sexuality
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Author | : Patricia Caplan |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780415040136 |
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Pat Caplan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1981-12-31 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Momin Rahman |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-12-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0745633773 |
This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality provides fresh insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to recent research and theory, and wider social concerns throughout the world.
Author | : Richard Guy Parker |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780393937800 |
An affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective.
Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : 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 | : Clare Chambers |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : 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 | : Suzanne LaFont |
Publisher | : Pearson College Division |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780205679003 |
MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself—including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. 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.