Sex in Development
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-3491-0 (ISBN)
Sex in Development examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes “normal” sexual practices and identities. From sex education in Uganda to aids prevention in India to family planning in Greece, various sites of development work related to sex, sexuality, and reproduction are examined in the rich, ethnographically grounded essays in this volume. These essays demonstrate that ideas related to morality are repeatedly enacted in ostensibly value-neutral efforts to put into practice a “global” agenda reflecting the latest medical science.Sex in Development combines the cultural analysis of sexuality, critiques of global development, and science and technology studies. Whether considering the resistance encountered by representatives of an American pharmaceutical company attempting to teach Russian doctors a “value free” way to offer patients birth control or the tension between Tibetan Buddhist ideas of fertility and the modernization schemes of the Chinese government, these essays show that attempts to make sex a universal moral object to be managed and controlled leave a host of moral ambiguities in their wake as they are engaged, resisted, and reinvented in different ways throughout the world.
Contributors. Vincanne Adams, Leslie Butt, Lawrence Cohen, Heather Dell, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Shanti Parikh, Heather Paxson, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Michele Rivkin-Fish
Vincanne Adams is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution. Stacy Leigh Pigg is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is the editor of the journal Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex /Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams 1
Globalizing the Facts of Life / Stacy Leigh Pigg 39
Part 1: The Production of New Subjectivities 67
Moral Science and the Management of "Sexual Revolution" in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish 71
Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece / Heather Paxson 95
From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh 125
Part 2: The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project 159
Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt 163
"Ordinary" Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives: Liberalization and National Identity in India / Heather S. Dell 187
Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) / Vincanne Adams 207
Part 3: Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics 241
Uses and Pleasures: Sexual Modernity, HIV/AIDS, and Confessional Technologies in a West African Metropolis / Vinh-Kim Nguyen 245
The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification / Lawrence Cohen 269
References 305
Contributors 333
Index 335
| Zusatzinfo | 6 b&w photos, 4 illus. |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-3491-7 / 0822334917 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-3491-0 / 9780822334910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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