Author: Patricia CaplanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415040136
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cultural Construction of Sexuality
Author: Patricia CaplanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415040136
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cultural Construction of Sexuality
Author: Pat CaplanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113610660X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Sexual Meanings
Author: Sherry B. OrtnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521239653
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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.
Sexual Meanings
Author: Sherry B. OrtnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
Author: Janice IrvinePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1566391369
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. The contributors consider the full range of cultural influences that form a teenager's sexual identity and argue that education must include more than its current overriding message of denial hinged on warnings of HIV and AIDS infection and teenage pregnancy. Examining the sexual experiences, feelings, and development of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, gay man and lesbians, and disabled women, this book provides a new understanding of adolescent sexuality that goes beyond the biological approach all too often simplified as "surging hormones." In the series Health, Society, and Policy, edited by Sheryl Ruzek and Irving Kenneth Zola.
Culture, Society and Sexuality
Author: Richard Guy ParkerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781857288117
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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.
Sexual Meanings
Author: S. B. OrtnerSexual Cultures in East Asia
Author: Evelyne MicollierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134393504
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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.
Sexual meanings : the cultural construction of gender and sexuality
Author: Harriet WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The Social Construction of Sexuality
Author: Steven SeidmanPublisher: Contemporary Societies
ISBN: 9780393937800
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An affordable primer to sexuality written from a sociological perspective.