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Title Sex in development : science, sexuality, and morality in global perspective / Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, editors
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: the moral object of sex / Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams -- Globalizing the facts of life / Stacy Leigh Pigg -- Moral science and the management of "sexual revolution" in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish -- Family planning, human nature, and the ethical subject of sex in urban Greece / Heather Paxson -- From auntie to diso: the bifurcation of risk and pleasure in sex education in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh -- Sexuality, the state, and the runaway wives of highlands Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt -- "Ordinary" sex, prostitutes, and middle-class wives: liberalization and national identity in India / Heather S. Dell -- Moral orgasm and productive sex: tantrism faces fertility control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) / Vincanne Adams -- Uses and pleasures: sexual modernity, HIV/AIDS, and confessional technologies in a West African metropolis / Vinh-Kim Nguyen -- The Kothi wars: AIDS, cosmopolitanism and the morality of classification / Lawrence Cohen
Summary Ethnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index
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Subject Sex -- Developing countries
Sex customs -- Developing countries
Sexual ethics -- Developing countries
Culture.
Sexual Behavior
Culture
Developing Countries
culture note.
culture (concept)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
Culture
Sex
Sex customs
Sexual ethics
Sexualität
Seksualiteit.
Seksuele ethiek.
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Adams, Vincanne, 1959- editor.
Pigg, Stacy Leigh, 1960- editor.
ISBN 9780822386414
0822386410
1283023970
9781283023979
9786613023971
6613023973