Celibacy, culture, and society
Subtitle: the anthropology of sexual abstinence
By: edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell.
Contributors: Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-; Bell, Sandra, 1948-
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Celibacy; Sexual abstinence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective : an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo; title: Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore; title: The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow; title: The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko; title: The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel; title: Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins; title: Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke; title: Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami; title: Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal; title: Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar; title: Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester; title: Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. De Munck; title: Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw; title: A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate.