Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters

Published by Berghahn Books 2009

Transgressive Sex

Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters

Edited by: Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan

Volume 13 in the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458904

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About this book

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.

Author / Editor information

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

Reviews

“Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan have compiled a series of chapters on the cutting edge of sexuality and gender studies…All of the authors presented here are quite honest in narrating the challenges they experienced in undertaking difficult research subjects in often sensitive areas. The researchers and editors of the volume are to be commended for addressing such complex topics in an unessentialized manner and providing insight into areas of sexuality that are not often discussed.” · American Ethnologist

“The twelve well-considered and researched papers in this volume are all based on empirical data spread across the globe from Ireland to Thailand. They deal with every possible location of sexuality, in kinship, in witchcraft, in national politics and in fieldwork to name some. The introduction to the volume highlights the theoretical concerns and salient points of discussion.” · Anthropological Notebooks

“This book offers some challenging perspectives on sexual variability. Its chapters collectively make the case against diagnosing some manifestations of that variability as “healthier” than others -- a habit that still finds its way into pedagogy and clinical practice, even as it becomes rarer in anthropological theory. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the comparative study of sexuality and would be a useful pedagogical tool for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in that field.” · Medical Anthropology Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CHAPTER 1 SEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, SOCIAL ORDER AND THE SELF Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 SEXUALLY ACTIVE VIRGINS: NEGOTIATING ADOLESCENT FEMININITY, COLOUR AND SAFETY IN CAPE TOWN Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Ann-Karina Henriksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER 3 SUMMER SEX: YOUTH, DESIRE AND THE CARNIVALESQUE AT THE ENGLISH SEASIDE Suzanne Clisby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
CHAPTER 4 A CURIOUS THREESOME: TRANSGRESSION, CONSERVATISM AND TEENAGE SEX IN THE ‘FREE HOUSE’ IN NORTHERN IRELAND Rosellen Roche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
CHAPTER 5 ZOOSEX AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS WITH ANIMALS Rebecca Cassidy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER 6 DANCING SEXUALITY IN THE COOK ISLANDS Kalissa Alexeyeff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
CHAPTER 7 ‘LET THEM HEAR US!’ THE POLITICS OF SAME-SEX TRANSGRESSION IN CONTEMPORARY POLAND Monika Baer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
CHAPTER 8 TAMING THE BUSH: MORALITY, AIDS PREVENTION AND GAY SEX IN PUBLIC PLACES Laurent Gaissa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
CHAPTER 9 TRANSGRESSION AND THE MAKING OF ‘WESTERN’ SEXUAL SCIENCES Mark Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
CHAPTER 10 WHAT CONSTITUTES TRANSGRESSIVE SEX? THE CASE OF CHILD PROSTITUTION IN THAILAND Heather Montgomery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
CHAPTER 11 COURTING TRANSGRESSION: CUSTOMARY LAW AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA Fiona Magowan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
CHAPTER 12 MANAGING SEXUAL ADVANCES IN VANUATU Ingvill Kristiansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 290
Keywords: Medical Anthropology

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Published: February 1, 2009
ISBN: 9781845458904