Sexual inequalities and social justice
By: edited by Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt ; with a foreword by Richard Parker.
Contributors: Teunis, Niels.; Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780520246157; 9780520246140
Subjects: Gender; Sex; Equality; Social justice; Social action; Ethnicity
Description: "His pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine such issues as substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia. The authors address the complex and challenging question of how the research under discussion here can make a real contribution to the struggle for social justice. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the analysis of sexual inequality / Niels Teunis and Gilbert Herdt; title: Childhood sexual abuse and HIV among Latino gay men : the price of sexual silence during the AIDS epidemic / Sonya Grant Arreola; title: In our own backyard : HIV/AIDS stigmatization in the Latino gay community / Rafael M. Díaz; title: Knowing girls : gender and learning in school-based sexuality education / Jessica Fields; title: Sexual enslavement and reproductive health : narratives of Han among Korean comfort women survivors / Chunghee Sarah Soh; title: Where does oppression end and pleasure begin? : confronting sexual and gender inequality in HIV prevention work / Héctor Carrillo; title: Circuit culture : ethnographic reflections on inequality, sexuality, and life on the gay party circuit / Christopher Carrington; title: Confesiones de mujer : the Catholic Church and sacred morality in the sex lives of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria González-López; title: Disability and sexuality : toward a constructionist focus on access and the inclusion of disabled people in the sexual rights movement / Russell P. Shuttleworth; title: The family-friends of older gay men and lesbians / Brian de Vries and Patrick Hoctel; title: Sexual inequality, youth empowerment, and the GSA : a community study in California / Gilbert Herdt ... [et al.].