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Libro 7 di 33: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
 
9780857456373: Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters

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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.

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



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



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

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

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ISBN 10:  0857456385 ISBN 13:  9780857456380
Casa editrice: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC, 2012
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