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Sex in Development – Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective de Stacy Leigh Pigg

Sex in Development – Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective

Autor Stacy Leigh Pigg, Vincanne Adams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2005
"Sex in Development "examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes "normal" sexual practices and identities. From sex education in Uganda to aids prevention in India to family planning in Greece, various sites of development work related to sex, sexuality, and reproduction are examined in the rich, ethnographically grounded essays in this volume. These essays demonstrate that ideas related to morality are repeatedly enacted in ostensibly value-neutral efforts to put into practice a "global" agenda reflecting the latest medical science. "Sex""in Development "combines the cultural analysis of sexuality, critiques of global development, and science and technology studies. Whether considering the resistance encountered by representatives of an American pharmaceutical company attempting to teach Russian doctors a "value free" way to offer patients birth control or the tension between Tibetan Buddhist ideas of fertility and the modernization schemes of the Chinese government, these essays show that attempts to make sex a universal moral object to be managed and controlled leave a host of moral ambiguities in their wake as they are engaged, resisted, and reinvented in different ways throughout the world.
"Contributors." Vincanne Adams, Leslie Butt, Lawrence Cohen, Heather Dell, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Shanti Parikh, Heather Paxson, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Michele Rivkin-Fish

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ISBN-13: 9780822334910
ISBN-10: 0822334917
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: 6 b&w photographs, 4 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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“This important and timely book makes a case for thinking in new directions about sexuality in relation to the ‘scientization’ of development policies. It will become an important reference work for future scholarship in anthropology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies, and, one would hope, in development studies.”—Rayna Rapp, coeditor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction"This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective, and showshow sexual health services refashion identities such as the "normal" or the "deviant", "nation"or "wife"; it will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as wellas anthropology."--Times Literary Supplement, December 2, 2005"This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective. . . . It will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology."—Sophie Day, Times Literary Supplement"Stimulating."—Ines Smyth, Development in Practice“This book is both timely and necessary and can serve as an essential text for Development, Sexuality, and Gender Studies. The book will also be very useful in Anthropology, Public Health, and Reproductive Health courses.” —Ruby Greene, International Journal of Health Planning Management“This is an excellent book for those engaged in designing and implementing programs that promote family planning and safe sex.” —Susan Cotts Watkins, Studies in Family Planning“The editors have succeeded in assembling a set of articles that do much more than tell readers what’s up with sex here and there…. They offer discussions that frame sex in the context of modernization, development, globalization, family planning, and, most notably, ethics and morality.” —Ellen Lewin, American Ethnologist“An excellent anthropological intervention into development studies that deserves a broad interdisciplinary feminist audience. . . . Indeed, each of the chapters in this anthology is an excellent ethnographic case study exploring the situated dynamics of sex and development program. Assembled together, and organized around clearly articulated common themes, they make this book a truly important one. The book has remarkable geographic and conceptual scope, and the conversation it stages among sexuality studies, science studies, and critical development work is exceptionally innovative. In short, the collection deserves to have broad and lasting impact on the field.”—Kate Bedford, Signs“A refreshing perspective. . . . The authors, and especially Adams and Pigg in their introduction, skillfully examine the facticity of scientific understandings of the body and sex typical of development projects, uncovering ways in which certain discourses, like science, come to be different and often more powerful than others in practice. . . . Through all of the contributions, we see sex in development as a global process but one that takes on many different guises.”— Robert C. Philen, American Anthropologist“This book should appeal to those working in development and cross-cultural contexts. Those in the sexual and reproductive health field will find it particularly relevant, but those working on other aspects of public health may benefit from exposure to this anthropological approach.”— Emma Kowal, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health“A series of rich and detailed ethnographic studies carried out by anthropologists over the past 10 years in Asia, Africa and Europe. . . . This collection makes an important contribution to fledgling debates on sexuality and development in a global context.”— Carolyn H. Williams, Feminist Review
"This important and timely book makes a case for thinking in new directions about sexuality in relation to the 'scientization' of development policies. It will become an important reference work for future scholarship in anthropology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies, and, one would hope, in development studies."--Rayna Rapp, coeditor of Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction "This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective, and shows how sexual health services refashion identities such as the "normal" or the "deviant", "nation" or "wife"; it will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology."--Times Literary Supplement, December 2, 2005 "This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective... It will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology."--Sophie Day, Times Literary Supplement "Stimulating."--Ines Smyth, Development in Practice "This book is both timely and necessary and can serve as an essential text for Development, Sexuality, and Gender Studies. The book will also be very useful in Anthropology, Public Health, and Reproductive Health courses." --Ruby Greene, International Journal of Health Planning Management "This is an excellent book for those engaged in designing and implementing programs that promote family planning and safe sex." --Susan Cotts Watkins, Studies in Family Planning "The editors ... have succeeded in assembling a set of articles that do much more than tell readers what's up with sex here and there... They offer discussions that frame sex in the context of modernization, development, globalization, family planning, and, most notably, ethics and morality." --Ellen Lewin, American Ethnologist "An excellent anthropological intervention into development studies that deserves a broad interdisciplinary feminist audience... Indeed, each of the chapters in this anthology is an excellent ethnographic case study exploring the situated dynamics of sex and development program. Assembled together, and organized around clearly articulated common themes, they make this book a truly important one. The book has remarkable geographic and conceptual scope, and the conversation it stages among sexuality studies, science studies, and critical development work is exceptionally innovative. In short, the collection deserves to have broad and lasting impact on the field."--Kate Bedford, Signs "A refreshing perspective... The authors, and especially Adams and Pigg in their introduction, skillfully examine the facticity of scientific understandings of the body and sex typical of development projects, uncovering ways in which certain discourses, like science, come to be different and often more powerful than others in practice... Through all of the contributions, we see sex in development as a global process but one that takes on many different guises."-- Robert C. Philen, American Anthropologist "This book should appeal to those working in development and cross-cultural contexts. Those in the sexual and reproductive health field will find it particularly relevant, but those working on other aspects of public health may benefit from exposure to this anthropological approach."-- Emma Kowal, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health "A series of rich and detailed ethnographic studies carried out by anthropologists over the past 10 years in Asia, Africa and Europe... This collection makes an important contribution to fledgling debates on sexuality and development in a global context."-- Carolyn H. Williams, Feminist Review

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"This important and timely book makes a case for thinking in new directions about sexuality in relation to the 'scientization' of development policies. It will become an important reference work for future scholarship in anthropology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies, and, one would hope, in development studies."--Rayna Rapp, coeditor of "Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction"

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Ethnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy.