Chapter 1 Introduction, Richard Parker, Peter Aggleton; Culture, Society and Sexuality; Part 1 Conceptual Frameworks; Chapter 2 Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History, Robert A. Padgug; Chapter 3 Sexual Scripts, William Simon, John H. Gagnon; Chapter 4 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment, Carole S. Vance; Part 2 Gender and Power; Chapter 5 Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis, Joan Wallach Scott; Chapter 6 ‘Gender’ for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word, Donna J. Haraway; Chapter 7 ‘That We Should All Turn Queer?’: Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua, Roger N. Lancaster; Part 3 From Gender to Sexuality; Chapter 8 Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality, Jeffrey Weeks; Chapter 9 Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality, Gayle S. Rubin; Chapter 10 ‘The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts’: Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality, Robert W. Connell, Gary W. Dowsett; Part 4 Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities; Chapter 11 Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Adrienne Rich; Chapter 12 The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role, Serena Nanda; Chapter 13 Capitalism and Gay Identity, John D’Emilio; Sexuality, Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS; Part 5 Sexual Classifications; Chapter 14 ‘Within Four Walls’: Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS, Richard Parker; Chapter 15 Silences: ‘Hispanics’, AIDS, and Sexual Practices, Ana Maria Alonso, Maria Teresa Koreck; Chapter 16 HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations, Stephanie Kane; Part 6 Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS Prevention; Chapter 17 Prostitution Viewed Cross-culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research, Barbara O. de Zalduondo; Chapter 18 Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil, Richard Parker; Chapter 19 Sexuality, Identity and Community: The Experience of MESMAC, Katie Deverell, Alan Prout; Part 7 Sexual Representations and the Politics of AIDS; Chapter 20 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification, Paula Treichler; Chapter 21 Inventing ‘African AIDS’, Cindy Patton; Chapter 22 Safer Sex as Community Practice, Simon Watney; Part 8 Methodological Approaches; Chapter 23 Sexual Culture, HIV Transmission, and AIDS Research, Richard Parker, Gilbert Herdt, Manuel Carballo; Chapter 24 Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for AIDS Prevention – An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s, Ralph Bolton; Chapter 25 Feminist Methodology and Young People’s Sexuality, Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson;