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Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture 1/e
Suzanne LaFont
Published December 2002 by Prentice Hall
Copyright 2003, 406 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-13-009661-X
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Preface
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. KEY TOPICS: 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.

Features

  • Pedagogical tools help students understand the material—Each section includes an introduction to the readings, a list of important terms, critical thinking questions, further readings, and a list of related websites. In addition, a glossary, a "further reading" bibliography, a list of related journals, and a complete index enhance student understanding.

    • Provides students with materials that will aid them in formulating their own thought of sexualities, gender, and culture.

  • Designed for introductory level students.

    • Offers student-friendly readings that are light on technical language and understandable to non-specialists.

  • A comprehensive body of scholarship relating to sexuality and gender.

    • Encourages a student-centered approach formulated to promote critical thought and stimulate class discussions.
Table of Contents



Introduction.

SECTION ONE: RESEARCHING SEXUALITIES AND GENDER.

 1. Investigating Sex: Essentialism and Constructionism by Jennifer Harding (1998).

 2. Sexing the Body: How Biologist Construct Human Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling (1999).

 3. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles by Emily Martin (1991).

 4. Sex in Primitive Society by Ruth Benedict (1937).

SECTION TWO: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GENDER AND REPRODUCTION.

 5. Animals with the Weirdest Sex Life by Jared Diamond (1997).

 6. Bonobo Sex and Society by Frans de Waal (1995).

 7. Human Apes by Alison Jolly (1999).

SECTION THREE: SEXUAL POTENTIALITIES: LESSONS FROM EARLY ETHNOGRAPHIES.

 8. Prenuptial Intercourse between the Sexes by Bronislaw Malinowski (1929).

 9. Dani Sexuality: A Low Energy System by Karl Heider (1976) * with new introduction.

10. Sexual Inversion Among the Azande by E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1970).

11. Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community by John Messenger (1971).

SECTION FOUR: RITES OF PASSAGE AND GENITAL MUTILATION.

12. The Geography of Genital Mutilation by James DeMeo (1989).

13. Unmasking Tradition: A Sudanese anthropologist confronts female "circumcision" and its terrible tenacity by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (1998).

SECTION FIVE: MARRIAGE AND LOVE.

14. Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection by Thomas Gregor (1985).

15. Arranging a Marriage in India by Serena Nanda (1992).

16. Against Love by Laura Kipnis (2001).

SECTION SIX: CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING BODIES.

17. The Five Sexes: Why male and female are not enough by Anne Fausto-Sterling (1993).

18. Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Cheryl Chase (1998).

SECTION SEVEN: BEYOND THE BINARY.

19. Hijras and Sadhin: Neither Man nor Woman in India by Serena Nanda (2000).

20. Lesbians, Men-Women and Two-Spirits: Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures by Sabine Lang (1999).

SECTION EIGHT: TRANS-ISMS /GENDER/SEXUAL/CULTURAL.

21. Who Put the "Trans" in Transgender? Gender Theory and Everyday Life by Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna (2000).

22. The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes by Don Kulick (1999).

SECTION NINE: SAME-SEX SEXUALITIES: CULTURE, DESIRE AND FREEDOM.

23. Sambia Sexual Culture by Gilbert Herdt (1999).

24. Culture and Women's Sexualities by Evelyn Blackwood (2000).

25. Redirecting Sexual Orientation: Techniques and Justifications by Timothy F. Murphy (1992).

SECTION TEN: INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS: SEXUALITIES IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE.

26. For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica by Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont (1995).

27. Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary v. Forced Prostitution Dichotomy by Jo Doezema (1998).

SECTION ELEVEN: THE RIGHT TO SAY NO, THE RIGHT TO SAY YES: GENDER, SEXUALITIES, AND SELF-DETERMINATION.

28. Arab Honor's Price: A Woman's Blood by Douglas Jehl (1999).

29. Women: Wives, Mothers, Daughters by Chris Beyrer (1998).

30. Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography by Carole S. Vance (1990).

SECTION TWELVE: THE FUTURE OF SEXUALITIES.

31. …/Cybersex/no_gender/ no_sexuality/no_body.html by Andy Miah (2001).

32. An Orgy of Abstinence by Sharon Lerner (2001).

33. An Unfinished Revolution: Sexuality in the 20th Century by Jeffery Weeks (1993).

Glossary.

Full Citation of Readings.

List of Journals for the study of Sexuality, Gender, and Culture.

Bibliography.

Index.



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