Transgressive Sex

Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-637-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donnan, Hastings

Magowan, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Sexual Transgression, Social Order and the Self

Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan, both at Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)

Chapter 2. Sexually Active Virgins: Negotiating Adolescent Femininity, Colour and Safety in Cape Town

Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Ann-Karina Henriksen, both at University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Chapter 3. Summer Sex: Youth, Desire and the Carnivalesque at the English Seaside

Suzanne Clisby, University of Hull (United Kingdom)

Chapter 4. A Curious Threesome: Transgression, Conservatism and Teenage Sex in the ‘Free House’ in Northern Ireland

Rosellen Roche, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)

Chapter 5. Zoosex and Other Relationships with Animals

Rebecca Cassidy, Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom)

Chapter 6. Dancing Sexuality in the Cook Islands

Kalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Chapter 7. ‘Let Them Hear Us!’ The Politics of Same-sex Transgression in Contemporary Poland

Monika Baer, Wroclaw University (Poland)

Chapter 8. Taming the Bush: Morality, AIDS Prevention and Gay Sex in Public Places

Laurent Gaissad, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Chapter 9. Transgression and the Making of ‘Western’ Sexual Sciences

Mark Johnson, Researcher

Chapter 10. What Constitutes Transgressive Sex?: The Case of Child Prostitution in Thailand

Heather Montgomery, Open University (United Kingdom)

Chapter 11. Courting Transgression: Customary Law and Sexual Violence in Aboriginal Australia

Fiona Magowan, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)

Chapter 12. Managing Sexual Advances in Vanuatu

Ingvill Kristiansen, Harstad University College (Norway)

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donnan, Hastings
Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Magowan, Fiona
Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.