Description:
Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and cultural studies scholars, this volume highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being.
Review Quotes:
'Anthologies don't get much more cutting-edge than this. Impotence in Bangladesh, penile implants in Papua New Guinea, contraceptive practices, infertility and sex-selection clinics around the world, new perspectives on transgender, and dildos in a cross-cultural perspective - this book is the place to go to see some of the most exciting research on sexuality going on today.' - Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago, USA
'Lenore Manderson and her collaborators make a vital and important contribution to the increasingly vibrant field of sexuality. The book shows how sex is a serious business in original and creative analyses of how technologies produce power. From a vast range of experience and knowledge, the chapters contribute highly innovative cultural and political studies on sexuality, sexual health and sexual and gender identity. A must read for all those engaged in the study of the body and its discontents.' - Wendy Harcourt, Senior Lecturer, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands