This book brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The chapters reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the globe. They map areas that are currently at the cutting edge of social science writing on sexuality, as well as the complex interface between theory and practice. The book highlights the extent to which populations and communities that once were the object of scie ... More
Keywords: sexual experience, gender, sexuality, power, resistance, emancipation, sexual histories, populations, communities, elusive embryo
Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520224308 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520224308.001.0001 |