Global Sex

by Dennis Altman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226016061
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/15/2001
Edition description:	1
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dennis Altman is a professor in the School of Politics, Sociology, and Anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia. He is the author of eight books, including AIDS in the Mind of America and Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation.

Table of Contents

Preface: Sex and Politics
1. Introduction: Thinking about Sex and Politics
2. The Many Faces of Globalization
3. Sex and Political Economy
4. The (Re)Discovery of Sex
5. Imagining AIDS: And the New Surveillance
6. The Globalization of Sexual Identities
7. The New Commercialization of Sex:
From Forced Prostitution to Cybersex
8. Sexual Politics and International Relations
9. Squaring the Circle:
The Battle for "Traditional" Morality
10. Conclusion: A Global Sexual Politics?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

This unparalleled discussion of the globalization of human sexuality provides the first major work to examine the issue, from how sex has been shaped and marketed in the new global economy to how access to Western pornography has changed sexual behavior in China. Global Sex offers a fascinating and informative set of connections between economics, human sexuality, and marketing behaviors results.