Sex in Development - Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds. Klappentext Ethnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy. Zusammenfassung Ethnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex /Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams 1 Globalizing the Facts of Life / Stacy Leigh Pigg 39 Part 1: The Production of New Subjectivities 67 Moral Science and the Management of "Sexual Revolution" in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish 71 Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece / Heather Paxson 95 From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh 125 Part 2: The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project 159 Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt 163 "Ordinary" Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives: Liberalization and National Identity in India / Heather S. Dell 187 Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) / Vincanne Adams 207 Part 3: Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics 241 Uses and Pleasures: Sexual Modernity, HIV/AIDS, and Confessional Technologies in a West African Metropolis / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 245 The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification / Lawrence Cohen 269 References 305 Contributors 333 Index 335

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• Authors: ADAMS, Vincanne (EDT)/ Pigg Adams, Vincanne Pigg Adams, Stacy Pigg, Stacy Leigh Adams Pigg
• Assisted by: Vincanne Adams (Editor), Stacy Leigh Pigg (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2005
• EAN: 9780822334798
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3479-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sexualität, Entwicklungsländer, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries