Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and CultureDesigned 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. |
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Contents
PART | 1 |
Sex in Primitive Society by Ruth Benedict 1937 | 34 |
The Animal with the Weirdest Sex Life by Jared Diamond 1997 | 41 |
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| Title | Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture |
| Editor | Suzanne LaFont |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 12, 2010 |
| ISBN | 013009661X, 9780130096616 |
| Length | 406 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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