Transgressive Sex : : Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters /

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

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 o...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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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

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