Global sex / Dennis Altman.

By:

Altman, Dennis, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226016047
0226016048
9780226016061
0226016064
9786612538223
6612538228
1282538225
9781282538221

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global sex.DDC classification:

306.7 22

LOC classification:

HQ16 .A38 2001eb

Other classification:

71.25
306.7

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Contents:

Introduction: thinking about sex and politics -- The many faces of globalization -- Sex and political economy -- the (re)discovery of sex -- Imagining AIDS: and the new surveillance -- The globalization of sexual identities -- The new commercialization of sex: from forced prostitution to cybersex -- Sexual politics and international relations -- Squaring the circle: the battle for "traditional" morality -- Conclusion: a global sexual politics?

Summary: 'Global Sex' is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure - as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health - are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-204) and index.

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'Global Sex' is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure - as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health - are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.

English.

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