1st Edition

The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

By Pat Caplan Copyright 1987
    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1987. Illustrates the argument that sexuality is not a `thing in itself' but a concept that can only be understood with reference to economic, political and social factors.

    Introduction; 1: Questions of identity; 2: ‘Facts of life' or the eroticization of women's oppression? Sexology and the social construction of heterosexuality; 3: Reason, desire, and male sexuality; 4: A note on gender iconography: the vagina; 5: Social and cognitive aspects of female sexuality in Jamaica; 6: Honour and shame: the control of women's sexuality and group identity in Naples; 7: Beyond the Samoan controversy in anthropology: a history of sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji 1; 8: ‘Selling her kiosk': Kikuyu notions of sexuality and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya 1; 9: Rank, gender, and homosexuality: Mombasa as a key to understanding sexual options; 10: Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya 1

    Biography

    Pat Caplan