Pigg / Adams Sex in Development

Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8641-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 354 Seiten

Ethnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pigg, Stacy Leigh

Adams, Vincanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rivkin-Fish, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

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

Über Autor(innen)

Vincanne Adams is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution.Stacy Leigh Pigg is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is the editor of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness.