Full Description
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology and the 'social life of things,' including pharmaceuticals, expanded sexual and related surgery, the growing exploitation of markets for sexual and contraceptive products, and the impact of these on sexual and health practices and outcomes.
Organised loosely into three parts, the opening chapters concentrate on female contraception, its availability, and the varied cultural significance attached to the ability to control its use, exploring the politics of reproductive health and birth control, and the ties between technology and power. The middle section turns its attention to men, and the impact of traditional and contemporary concerns about masculinity, and the social and sexual roles of men. The final chapters look at the commonalities across cultural borders and sexual gendered identities - how products and procedures travel, not only through the formal channels of globalisation, but also informally, carried by individuals across cultural and social boundaries through sexual, social and commercial interactions.
The volume brings together anthropologists, sociologists and cultural studies scholars, both senior and emerging, from around the globe. Offering an important and topical contribution to the developing global literature on sexuality, sexual identity, culture and health, it is of interest to researchers and advanced students in these areas.
Contents
1.Material Worlds, Sexy Lives: Technologies Of Sexuality, Identity And Sexual Health / Lenore Manderson 2. In Search Of Pleasure And Respect: Biomedical Contraceptive Technologies In Bahia, Brazil / Silvia De Zordo 3. Contraceptive Secrets: Body Battles Among North And West African Migrants In Paris / Carolyn Sargent And Laurence Kotobi 4. The Turn To Female-Controlled Safe Sex Technologies / Anita Hardon 5. The Re/Making Of Men And Penile Modification / Holly Buchanan, Rei Frank, Murray Couch And Angelyn Amos 6. Sex, Pornography And Medicines In The Markets Of Dhaka / Sabina Faiz Rashid, Owasim Akram And Mujibul Anam 7. Diasporic Sexuality: From Condom Ambivalence To ICSI Quests In Lebanon / Marcia Inhorn 8. Gender Disappointment And Cross-Border High Tech Sex Selection: A New Global Sex Trade / Andrea Whittaker 9. Dildos: Passionate Aesthetics And The Plasticity Of Desires / Saskia Wieringa 10. Trans Technologies And Identities In The United States / Ryan Plis And Evelyn Blackwood 11. Paradigm And Power Shifts In The Gender Clinic / Riki Lane
