The Cultural Construction of SexualityPatricia Caplan 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. |
Contents
Questions of identity | 31 |
Facts of life or the eroticization | 52 |
Reason desire and male sexuality | 82 |
the vagina | 113 |
Social and cognitive aspects | 143 |
the control | 166 |
Kikuyu notions of sexuality | 217 |
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