ABSTRACT
As we assume in section I, the plurality of human powers and activities, including labor, love, and the ability to act on and create meaning in the world, both individually and in concert with others, constitutes and reshapes both human identity and social life. The chapters in section II contribute in different ways to understanding what kind of selves and social sexual ‘orders’ are made possible when fundamental human capacities are organized under conditions of persistent inequality. They also document various ways that these conditions are sustained or changed through making and re-making contracts, by different kinds of individual and collective negotiations, through sexual violence and institutionalized measures to inhibit violence and by other means.
