The Gender/sexuality Reader

Culture, History, Political Economy

Author: Roger N. Lancaster
Secondary Author: Micaela Di Leonardo
ISBN: 9780415910057

The Gender/Sexuality Reader is a sophisticated survey of the best recent work on bodies and desires across cultures and through time. Foregrounding ethnographic studies and social history, this anthology brings together an unusually broad selection of essays across the disciplines--essays that link the typically segregated topics of desire, demography, and nationalism; bodily adornment and violence against women; colonialism, gender, race, and sexuality. The settings of these rich studies are diverse: the contemporary United States, haunted by spectres of race and sex; post-Maoist China, whose love affair with the commodity draws on images of white-skinned women; modern clinics and hospitals, where new medical technologies pose unprecedented dilemmas; sexual subcultures as diverse as the lesbian community of San Francisco and carnival worlds in Brazil; and historical periods ranging from classical antiquity to postmodern Egypt. The topics these essays treat are likewise diverse and eng

Publisher: Psychology Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Gender Studies

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