| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-204) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: thinking about sex and politics -- The many faces of globalization -- Sex and political economy -- the (re)discovery of sex -- Imagining AIDS: and the new surveillance -- The globalization of sexual identities -- The new commercialization of sex: from forced prostitution to cybersex -- Sexual politics and international relations -- Squaring the circle: the battle for "traditional" morality -- Conclusion: a global sexual politics? |
| Summary |
'Global Sex' is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure - as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health - are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex customs.
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Sex customs. |
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Sexual practices. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Altman, Dennis, 1943- Global sex. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001 9780226016061 (DLC) 00036884 (OCoLC)43706688 |
| ISBN |
9780226016047 (electronic book) |
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0226016048 (electronic book) |
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0226016064 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226016054 |
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