Transgressive Sex : : Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters / / ed. by Hastings Donnan, Fiona Magowan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alexeyeff, Kalissa,; Baer, Monika,; Cassidy, Rebecca,; Clisby, Suzanne,; Donnan, Hastings,; Gaissa, Laurent,; Henriksen, Ann-Karina,; Johnson, Mark,; Kristiansen, Ingvill,; Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz,; Magowan, Fiona,; Montgomery, Heather,; Roche, Rosellen,
• HerausgeberIn: Donnan, Hastings,; Magowan, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 SEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, SOCIAL ORDER AND THE SELF -- CHAPTER 2 SEXUALLY ACTIVE VIRGINS: NEGOTIATING ADOLESCENT FEMININITY, COLOUR AND SAFETY IN CAPE TOWN -- CHAPTER 3 SUMMER SEX: YOUTH, DESIRE AND THE CARNIVALESQUE AT THE ENGLISH SEASIDE -- CHAPTER 4 A CURIOUS THREESOME: TRANSGRESSION, CONSERVATISM AND TEENAGE SEX IN THE ‘FREE HOUSE’ IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- CHAPTER 5 ZOOSEX AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS WITH ANIMALS -- CHAPTER 6 DANCING SEXUALITY IN THE COOK ISLANDS -- CHAPTER 7 ‘LET THEM HEAR US!’ THE POLITICS OF SAME-SEX TRANSGRESSION IN CONTEMPORARY POLAND -- CHAPTER 8 TAMING THE BUSH: MORALITY, AIDS PREVENTION AND GAY SEX IN PUBLIC PLACES -- CHAPTER 9 TRANSGRESSION AND THE MAKING OF ‘WESTERN’ SEXUAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER 10 WHAT CONSTITUTES TRANSGRESSIVE SEX? THE CASE OF CHILD PROSTITUTION IN THAILAND -- CHAPTER 11 COURTING TRANSGRESSION: CUSTOMARY LAW AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA -- CHAPTER 12 MANAGING SEXUAL ADVANCES IN VANUATU -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX