Sexuality, Culture and Health
About the Book Series
This series of books offers cutting-edge analysis, current theoretical perspectives and up-to-the-minute ideas concerning the interface between sexuality, public health, human rights, culture and social development. It adopts a global and interdisciplinary perspective in which the needs of poorer countries are given equal status to those of richer nations. The books are written with a broad range of readers in mind, and will be invaluable to students, academics and those working in policy and practice. The series also aims to serve as a spur to practical action in an increasingly globalised world.
The Moral Lessons of Chemsex: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
By Maurice Nagington
December 26, 2024
This book explores how gay and bi men’s lived experiences of chemsex intersect with its cultural representations. It argues that while normative moral frameworks are often used to talk about chemsex, chemsex sub-cultures contain their own valuable moral frameworks that can provide lessons about ...
Sex and Gender in the Pacific: Contemporary Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender and Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Kelly-Hanku, Peter Aggleton, Anne Malcolm
August 26, 2024
This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice. Bringing together the work of scholars from across the Pacific...
Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Deevia Bhana, Mary Crewe, Peter Aggleton
May 27, 2024
This book—Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa—is structured around four major themes: gender and sexuality diversity; love, pleasure and respect; gender, sexual violence and health; and sexuality, gender and sexual justice. Chapters in this book analyse sexuality in relation to...
Viral Times: Reflections on the COVID-19 and HIV Pandemics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jaime García-Iglesias, Maurice Nagington, Peter Aggleton
April 30, 2024
This book explores the relationship between COVID-19 and AIDS. It considers both how the earlier HIV pandemic informed our engagement with COVID-19, as well as the ways in which COVID-19 has changed how we remember and experience AIDS. Individual sections focus on sexual and intimate relationships,...
Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Christina Sinding, Donald Goellnicht
May 31, 2023
This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions – including the mutually constitutive relationships – among sexualities, transnationalism, and globalisation. Bringing together contributors with a variety of disciplinary, geographic, and theoretical perspectives, this text ...
Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship
1st Edition
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By Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Deana Leahy, Daniel Marshall, Mary Lou Rasmussen
March 31, 2021
Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from ...
The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV
1st Edition
By Kane Race
June 08, 2018
Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences. What happens when we consider the work of these sciences to be not merely descriptive, but also constitutive of the ...
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Lenore Manderson
June 16, 2017
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people’s sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in ...
Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations
1st Edition
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By Linda Rae Bennett, Sharyn Graham Davies
November 07, 2016
Winner of the 2015 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited Volume Sex, sexuality and sexual relationships are hotly debated in Indonesia, triggering complex and often passionate responses. This innovative volume explores these issues in a variety of ways. It highlights historical and newer forms...
Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker, Felicity Thomas
April 23, 2015
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...
Men Who Sell Sex: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker
November 05, 2014
All over the world, men as well as women exchange sex for money and other forms of reward, sometimes with other men and sometimes with women. In contrast to female prostitution, however, relatively little is known about male sex work, leaving questions unanswered about the individuals involved: ...
Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers
1st Edition
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By Peter Aggleton, Paul Boyce, Henrietta L Moore, Richard Parker
June 28, 2013
Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become ...