Abstract from book jacket.
This collection 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 contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the globe. The essays consider issues such as population, sexual and reproductive health, sexual negotiation and gender power, and the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic from anthropological, sociological, political, and psychological perspectives. The chapters deal with locales such as Australia, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, the Philippines, South Africa, and Peru.
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