Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Editors' Note -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Section I: Culture, Society and Sexuality -- Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks -- Chapter 2 Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History -- Chapter 3 Sexual Scripts -- Chapter 4 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment -- Part 2: Gender and Power -- Chapter 5 Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis -- Chapter 6 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word -- Chapter 7 'That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua -- Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality -- Chapter 8 Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality -- Chapter 9 Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Polities of Sexuality -- Chapter 10 'The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality -- Part 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities -- Chapter 11 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence -- Chapter 12 The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role -- Chapter 13 Capitalism and Gay Identity -- Section II: Sexuality, Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS -- Part 5: Sexual Classifications -- Chapter 14 'Within Four Walls': Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS -- Chapter 15 Silences: 'Hispanics', AIDS, and Sexual Practices -- Chapter 16 HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations -- Part 6: Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS Prevention -- Chapter 17 Prostitution Viewed Cross-culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research -- Chapter 18 Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil.

Chapter 19 Sexuality, Identity and Community: The Experience of MESMAC -- Part 7: Sexual Representations and the Politics of AIDS -- Chapter 20 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification -- Chapter 21 Inventing 'African AIDS' -- Chapter 22 Safer Sex as Community Practice -- Part 8: Methodological Approaches -- Chapter 23 Sexual Culture, HIV Transmission, and AIDS Research -- Chapter 24 Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for AIDS Prevention - An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s -- Chapter 25 Feminist Methodology and Young People's Sexuality -- Author/Subject Index.

Since the beginnings of time, people have been interested in sex - the form it takes, the pleasure it can give, the circumstances in which it occurs, and what it means - both for the individuals concerned and to society more generally. Often seen as a synonym for love, sometimes as an expression of power, and infrequently as a means of exploitation and abuse, sex is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of human behaviour that has been written about by numerous writers and theorists worldwide. This book 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. It will be of use to students of sociology, cultural studies, and health and behavioural studies.

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