Full Description
This important volume offers readers an in-depth understanding of women's sexuality around the world, bringing to light a history that is often suppressed. What is reproductive health like for women in other countries of the world? How are marriage and love viewed in other cultures? This volume examines aspects of women and sexuality across the globe.
Each chapter in this volume focuses on a different world region, including North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. The topics covered in each chapter include sexual attitudes and practices, the influence of religion on sexuality, sexual violence, reproductive health, love and marriage, and the media and sexuality.
Specific country and cultural examples are interwoven such that readers come away with an understanding of the beliefs, practices, traditions, and customs that are common in each world region. Readers will be able to make cross-cultural comparisons, learning how the sexuality of women varies and yet is also the same from culture to culture. This volume is written in clear, jargon-free language, making it appropriate and useful for students and general readers.
Contents
Series Foreword
Introduction
Chronology
1. North America, Kelly Campbell
2. Latin America and the Caribbean, Jessica Gomez
3. Europe, Marissa A. Mosley and Tatjana M. Farley
4. North Africa and the Middle East, Jessica Gomez
5. Sub-Saharan Africa, Tiffany Fawn Jones
6. Central and East Asia, Francesca Otero-Vargas and Quiong Wu
7. South Asia and Southeast Asia, Kathleen Nadeau and Sangita Rayamajhi
8. Oceania, Rashmi Pithavadian, Anita Ogbeide, Angelica Ojinnaka, Rubab Firdaus, Syeda Zakia Hossain, Tinashe Dune, and Pranee Liamputtong
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
