ABSTRACT
The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality and sexual health, from family planning and STI management to gender and intimate partner violence and the technologisation of sex.
This book offers a research-based overview of key topics relevant to social and cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Beginning with an extended introduction and divided into six sections, it looks at culture, sex and gender, sexual diversity, sex work, migration and sexual violence. Each section opens with an editorial discussion which places the theme, and the chapters that follow, in a contemporary context. Six additional substantive chapters can be accessed online at www.routledge.com/cw/aggleton.
Including cutting-edge conceptual and empirical material from around the world, this is a key resource for students in, and across, a variety of academic disciplines in the social and health sciences. It is especially suitable for readers from sexuality studies, gender studies, development studies, anthropology and sociology as well as those with public health and social work backgrounds.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|46 pages
Culture and context
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Women's work, worry and fear
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
Cultural politics and masculinities
part Section II|42 pages
Sex and gender
chapter Chapter 5|10 pages
HIV prevention and low-income Chilean women
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
‘What does it take to be a man? What is a real man?'
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
‘I just need to be flashy on campus'
part Section III|46 pages
Sexual diversity and practice
chapter Chapter 9|13 pages
‘It's really a hard life’
part Section IV|46 pages
Sex work
chapter Chapter 11|15 pages
Structure and agency
chapter Chapter 12|15 pages
Social context, sexual risk perceptions and stigma
chapter Chapter 13|14 pages
Diversity of commercial sex among men and male-born trans people in three Peruvian cities
part Section V|48 pages
Sexual violence
chapter Chapter 14|18 pages
Hidden violence is silent rape
chapter Chapter 15|14 pages
Avoiding shame
chapter Chapter 16|14 pages
Barriers to post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) completion after rape
part Section VI|38 pages
Mobility and migration