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  • Gay and Lesbian Youth

    by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Here is a pioneering volume that explores adolescent homosexuality around the world. Social scientists examine the personal experiences of gay and lesbian teenagers from culture to culture and address the problems and obstacles these young people face. The changing contexts, values, and goals of societies worldwide are affecting how these adolescents adapt to being homosexual, and this compelling ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Secrecy and Cultural Reality

    Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House

    by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Rituals of Manhood

    by Gilbert H. Herdt ...
    Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to anthropologists of the late twentieth century. When in an earlier time anthropologists and sociologists described collective initiation rituals, the political and gender aspects of these practices were seldom underscored. Today, the power relationships of the body and domination, and the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • 21st Century Sexualities

    Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt, Cymene Howe ...
    Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological material from the major domains of sexual education, sexual health, sexual rights, and globalization, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Same Sex, Different Cultures

    Exploring Gay And Lesbian Lives

    by Gilbert H Herdt ...
    Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on maturing and living within societies, both historical and contemporary, that not only acknowledge but ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Third Sex, Third Gender

    Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Most modern discussions of the relationship of biological sex to gender presuppose that there are two genders, male and female, founded on the two biological sexes. But not all cultures share this essentialist assumption, and even Western societies have not always embraced it. Bringing together historical and anthropological studies, Third Sex, Third Gender challenges the usual emphasis on sexual ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Gay and Lesbian Aging

    Research and Future Directions

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt, PhD, Brian De Vries, PhD ...
    The year 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark "declassification" of homosexuality as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association--a watershed in the lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. For the first time in history, a generation of self-identified lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender individuals are approaching retirement. This volume brings to the forefront ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

    Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gilbert Herdt ...
    "Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture and Sexual Risk

    Edited by Hans ten Brummelhuis, Gilbert Herdt ...
    Brummelhuis and Herdt provide an intense examination of sexual risk and its cultural configurations heretofore missing from the AIDS literature. The chapters on Western gay men speak to the pressing methodological, conceptual and theoretical needs in HIV/AIDS research while providing an understanding and documentation of gay men's lives within the emerging corpus of lesbian and gay studies. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Moral Panics, Sex Panics

    Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Series Book 8 - Intersections
    Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    by Marshall Sahlins ...
    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... Read more

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  • Sensual Relations

    Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

    by David Howes ...
    With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual ... Read more

    $23.99 USD