The Cultural construction of sexuality / edited by Pat Caplan.

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Other Authors: Caplan, Patricia.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Tavistock Publications, 1987.
Series:Social science paperbacks ; 353.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Pat Caplan
  • Questions of identity / Jeffrey Weeks
  • 'Facts of life' or the eroticization of women's oppression? Sexology and the social construction of heterosexuality / Margaret Jackson
  • Reason, desire, and male sexuality / Victor J. Seidler
  • A note on gender iconography : the vagina / Shirley Ardener
  • Social and cognitive aspects of female sexuality in Jamaica / Carol P. MacCormack and Alizon Draper
  • Honour and shame : the control of women's sexuality and group identity in Naples / Victoria Goddard
  • Beyond the Samoan controversy in anthropology : a history of sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji / Allen Abramson
  • 'Selling her kiosk" : Kikuyu notions of sexuality and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya / Nici Nelson
  • Rank, gender, and homosexuality : Mombasa as a key to understanding sexual options / Gill Shepherd
  • Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya / Pat Caplan.