The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction Pat Caplan
1 Questions of identity Jeffrey Weeks
2 ‘Facts of life’ or the eroticization of women’s oppression? Sexology and the social construction of heterosexuality Margaret Jackson
3 Reason, desire, and male sexuality Victor J. Seidler
4 A note on gender iconography: the vagina Shirley Ardener
5 Social and cognitive aspects of female sexuality in Jamaica Carol P. MacCormack and Alizon Draper
6 Honour and shame: the control of women’s sexuality and group identity in Naples Victoria Goddard
7 Beyond the Samoan controversy in anthropology:
a history of sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji
Allen Abramson
8 ‘Selling her kiosk’: Kikuyu notions of sexuality and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya Nici Nelson
9 Rank, gender, and homosexuality: Mombasa as a key to understanding sexual options Gill Shepherd
10 Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya Pat Caplan
Name index
Subject index