Constructing Sexualities : Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

Preface xi Acknowledgments xv PART ONE RESEARCHING SEXUALITIES AND GENDER 1(36) Investigating Sex: Essentialism and Constructionism 6(12) Jennifer Harding Sexing the Body: How Biologists Construct Human Sexuality 18(5) Anne Fausto-Sterling The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles 23(11) Emily Martin Sex in Primitive Society 34(3) Ruth Benedict PART TWO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GENDER AND REPRODUCTION 37(29) The Animal with the Weirdest Sex Life 41(7) Jared Diamond Bonobo Sex and Society: The Behavior of a Close Relative Challenges Assumptions About Male Supremacy in Human Evolution 48(8) Frans B. M. de Waal Human Apes 56(10) Alison Jolly PART THREE SEXUAL POTENTIALITIES: LESSONS FROM EARLY ETHNOGRAPHIES 66(49) Prenuptial Intercourse Between the Sexes 72(22) Bronislaw Malinowski Dani Sexuality: A Low Energy System 94(2) Karl Heider Sexual Inversion Among the Azande 96(7) E. E. Evans-Pritchard Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community 103(12) John Messenger PART FOUR RITES OF PASSAGE AND GENITAL MUTILATION 115(19) The Geography of Genital Mutilations 120(7) James DeMeo Unmasking Tradition: A Sudanese Anthropologist Confronts Female ``Circumcision'' and Its Terrible Tenacity 127(7) Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf PART FIVE MARRIAGE AND LOVE 134(28) Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection 138(11) Thomas Gregor Arranging a Marriage in India 149(7) Serena Nanda Against Love: A Treatise on the Tyranny of Two 156(6) Laura Kipnis PART SIX CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING BODIES 162(26) The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough 166(6) Anne Fausto-Sterling Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 172(16) Cheryl Chase PART SEVEN BEYOND THE BINARY 188(31) Hijra and Sadhin: Neither Man nor Woman in India 192(10) Serena Nanda Lesbians, Men-Women and Two-Spirits: Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures 202(17) Sabine Lang PART EIGHT TRANS-ISMS/GENDER/SEXUAL/CULTURAL 219(24) Who Put the ``Trans'' in Transgender? Gender Theory and Everyday Life 223(4) Suzanne Kessler Wendy McKenna The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 227(16) Don Kulick PART NINE SAME-SEX SEXUALITIES: CULTURE, DESIRE, AND FREEDOM 243(57) Sambia Sexual Culture 249(24) Gilbert Herdt Culture and Women's Sexualities 273(12) Evelyn Blackwood Redirecting Sexual Orientation: Techniques and Justifications 285(15) Timothy F. Murphy PART TEN INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS: SEXUALITIES IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE 300(29) For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica 304(14) Deborah Pruitt Suzanne LaFont Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary v. Forced Prostitution Dichotomy 318(11) Jo Doezema PART ELEVEN THE RIGHT TO SAY NO, THE RIGHT TO SAY YES: GENDER, SEXUALITIES, AND SELF-DETERMINATION 329(29) Arab Honor's Price: A Woman's Blood 334(6) Douglas Jehl Women: Wives, Mothers, Daughters 340(6) Chris Beyrer Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography 346(12) Carole S. Vance PART TWELVE THE FUTURE OF SEXUALITIES 358(29) . . . /Cybersex/no_gender/no_sexuality/no_body.html 362(9) Andy Miah An Orgy of Abstinence 371(5) Sharon Lerner An Unfinished Revolution: Sexuality in the 20th Century 376(11) Jeffrey Weeks Glossary 387(8) A List of Journals for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, and Culture 395(2) Bibliography 397