Culture, society and sexualilty : a reader / edited by Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Richard Parker, Peter Aggleton -- Culture, society and sexuality -- Conceptual frameworks -- Sexual matters: On conceptualizing sexuality in history / Robert A. Padgug -- Sexual scripts / William Simon John H. Gagnon -- Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoretical comment / Carole S. Vance -- Gender and power -- Gender as a useful category of historical analysis / Joan Wallach Scott -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: The sexual politics of a word / Donna J. Haraway -- 'That we should all turn queer?': Homosexual stigma in the making of manhood and the breaking of a revolution in Nicaragua / Roger N. Lancaster -- From gender to sexuality -- Discourse, desire and sexual deviance: Some problems in a history of homosexuality / Jeffrey Weeks -- Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin -- 'The unclean motion of the generative parts': Frameworks inWestern thought on sexuality / R. W. Connell, Gary W. Dowsett -- Sexual identities /sexual communities -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich -- The hijras of India: Cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role / Serena Nanda -- Capitalism and gay identity / John d'Emilio -- Sexual meanings, health and rights -- Gender, power and rights - -- Masculinities and globalization / R.W. Connell -- Violence, sexuality, and women's lives / Lori L. Heise -- Reproductive and sexual rights: A feminist perspective / Sonia Correa, Rosalind Petchesky -- Sexual categories and classifications - -- HIV, heroin and heterosexual relations / Stephanie Kane -- An explosion of Thai identities: Global queering and re-imagining queer theory / Peter A. Jackson -- Bhai-behen, true love, time pass: Friendships and sexual partnerships among youth in an Indian metropolis Leena Abraham -- Sexual negotiations and transactions -- Masculinity and urban men: Perceived scripts for courtship, romantic, and sexual interactions with women / David Wyatt Seal, Anke A. Ehrhardt -- Some traditional methods are more modern than others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of sexual initimacy in Mexican companionate marriage / Jennifer Hirsch, Constance Nathanson -- Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda / Stella Nyanzi, Barbara Nyanzi, Bessie Kalina, Robert Pool -- Contemporary and future challenges -- Gendered scripts and the sexual scene: Promoting sexual subjects among Brazilian teenagers / Vera Paiva -- HIV- and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: A conceptual framework and implications for action / Richard Parker, Peter Aggleton -- Bracketing sexuality: Human rights and sexual orientation - A decade of development and denial at the UN / Ignacio Saiz.