Description
Key text for students which explores sexuality from diversity to perversity Analyses the relationship between sex as identity, practice and experience through a wide range of case material: from studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers to more recent analyses of gay sex and transexualism Examines the shaping of sex by global and globalizing forces in the contemporary world Also available in hardback, 9781845201128 GBP55.00 (August 2010)
About the Author
Hastings Donnan is Professor of Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. Fiona Magowan is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Queen's University Belfast.
Reviews
"This excellent book brings together cutting edge theory with a wide range of ethnographic evidence. It is a fascinating account of sexuality and all its many facets, raising issues of power, pleasure, taboo and more. An intriguing and engrossing read. - Heather Montgomery, Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies, The Open University
This volume not only brings sex - finally - into the centre of a discipline concerned with the different ways that people deal with the basics of human life, it is also a perfect combination of cross-cultural comparison and fieldwork examples at its best. - Dieter Haller, Chair for Social Anthropology, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum"
Book Information
ISBN 9781845201135
Author Hastings Donnan
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Berg Publishers
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 260g