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Framing the Sexual Subject - The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power

English · Paperback / Softback

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Focusing on the social and political dimensions of sexual experience, this book examines the social construction of sexual subjectivities, the dynamics of sexual oppression, and the struggle for sexual rights and empowerment in countries and cultures around the globe.

List of contents

CONTRIBUTORS:
Peter Aggleton, Regina Maria Barbosa, Frederick Blose, Carlos Cáceres, Rafael M. Diaz, Gary W. Dowsett, Mónica Gogna, Purnima Mane, Dédé Oetomo, Herman Oosthuizen, Vera Paiva, Richard Parker, Rosalind P. Petchesky, Eleanor Preston-Whyte, Silvina Ramos, Rachel Roberts, Michael Tan, Veriano Terto Jr., Christina Varga

About the author

Richard Parker is Professor in the Institute of Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and the Sociomedical Sciences Division of the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, as well as Director of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA). Regina Maria Barbosa is Coordinator of Research on Women's Health at the Institute of Health and a Research Scientist at the Center for Population Studies at the University of Campinas in São Paulo. Peter Aggleton is Professor at the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Summary

Explores the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. This title reconfigures notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the globe.

Product details

Authors R. Parker, Richard Barbosa Parker
Assisted by Peter Aggleton (Editor), Regina Maria Barbosa (Editor), Barbosa Regina Maria (Editor), Richard Parker (Editor)
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.01.2000
 
EAN 9780520218383
ISBN 978-0-520-21838-3
No. of pages 281
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups

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