The Cultural construction of sexuality / edited by Pat Caplan

London; New York: Tavistock Publications, 1987. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: xi, 304 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Contents: Introduction / Pat Caplan -- Questions of identity / Jeffrey Weeks -- 'Facts of life' or the eroticization of women's oppression? Sexology and the social construction of heterosexuality / Margaret Jackson -- Reason, desire, and male sexuality / Victor J. Seidler -- A note on gender iconography: the vagina / Shirley Ardener -- Social and cognitive aspects of female sexuality in Jamaica / Carol P. MacCormack and Alizon Draper -- Honour and shame : the control of women's sexuality and group identity in Naples / Victoria Goddard -- Beyond the Samoan controversy in anthropology: a history of sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji / Allen Abramson -- 'Selling her kiosk"" : Kikuyu notions of sexuality and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya / Nici Nelson -- Rank, gender, and homosexuality: Mombasa as a key to understanding sexual options / Gill Shepherd -- Celibacy as a solution? Mahatma Gandhi and Brahmacharya / Pat Caplan. Subjects: Sex; Cross-cultural studies. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Gender Identity. Identification, Psychological. Sex Sociological aspects. Sex Social aspects.