Culture, health and sexuality : an introduction

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aggleton, Peter (Author), Parker, Richard G. [ (Richard Guy)] , 1956- (Author), Thomas, Felicity (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxon, England : Routledge , c2015
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From sex to sexuality: sexual cultures and sexual selves
  • 2. Sexuality, culture and society: shifting paradigms in sexuality research
  • 3. Women's work, worry and fear: the portrayal of sexuality and sexual health in US magazines for teenage and middle-aged women, 2000-2007
  • 4. Cultural politics and masculinities: multiple-partners in historical perspective in Kwazulu-Natal
  • 5. HIV prevention and low-income Chilean women: machismo, marianismo and HIV misconceptions
  • 6. "What does it take to be a man? What is a real man?": ideologies of masculinity and HIV sexual risk among black heterosexual men
  • 7. "I just need to be flashy on campus": female students and transactional sex at a university in Zimbabwe
  • 8. Constructions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer identities among young people in contemporary Australia
  • 9. "It's really a hard life": love, gender and HIV risk among male-to-female transgender persons
  • 10. Black lesbian gender and sexual culture: celebration and resistance
  • 11. Structure and agency: reflections from an exploratory study of Vancouver indoor sex workers
  • 12. Social context, sexual risk perceptions and stigma: HIV vulnerability among male sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya
  • 13. Diversity of commercial sex among men and male-born trans people in three Peruvian cities
  • 14. Hidden violence is silent rape: sexual and gender-based violence in refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands
  • 15. Avoiding shame: young LGBT people, homophobia and self-destructive behaviours
  • 16. Barriers to post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) completion after rape: a south African qualitative study
  • 17. Youth, sin and sex in Nigeria: christianity and HIV/AIDS-related beliefs and behaviour among rural-urban migrants
  • 18. "Mobile men with money": the socio-cultural and politico- economic context of 'high-risk' behaviour among wealthy businessmen and government officials in urban China
  • 19. Race, space, place: notes on the racialisation and spatialisation of commercial sex work in Dubai, UAE