Transgressive sex
Subtitle: subversion and control in erotic encounters
By: edited by Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan.
Contributors: Donnan, Hastings.; Magowan, Fiona.
Series: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality -- v. 13
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781845455392
Subjects: Sex customs -- Cross-cultural studies; Sex
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexual transgression, social order, and the self / Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan; title: Sexually active virgins : negotiating adolescent femininity, colour, and safety in Cape Town / Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Ann-Karina Henriksen; title: Summer sex : youth, desire, and the carnivalesque at the English seaside / Suzanne Clisby; title: A curious threesome : transgression, conservatism, and teenage sex in the 'free house' in Northern Ireland / Rosellen Roche; title: Zoosex and other relationships with animals / Rebecca Cassidy; title: Dancing sexuality in the Cook Islands / Kalissa Alexeyeff; title: "Let them hear us!" : the politics of same-sex transgression in contemporary Poland / Monika Baer; title: Taming the bush : morality, aids prevention, and gay sex in public places / Laurent Gaissad; title: Transgression and the making of "western" sexual sciences / Mark Johnson; title: What constitutes transgressive sex? : the case of child prostitution in Thailand / Heather Montgomery; title: Courting transgression : customary law and sexual violence in aboriginal Australia / Fiona Magowan; title: Managing sexual advances in Vanuatu / Ingvill Kristiansen.