"Ilert Sundt (1817-1875), a Lutheran minister and extraordinary self-taught sociologist, spent twenty years trekking across his country to study social conditions in nineteenth-century Norway. His work took him to growing cities, small farms, and rural villages, where he questio…
Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Lati…
Balderston and Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the Anglo-European model of gender that has dominated the perceptions of other regions of the world. To this end, they have gathered essays that focus on the uncertain and contingent nat…
Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political …
The Cultural construction of sexuality
"The Cultural Construction of Sexuality" confronts the nature of the relationship between sex, gender, and sexuality.
How much of a say do we have in our own sexuality? More than is commonly assumed, Richard Posner asserts in this intellectually sweeping and compulsively readable account of sexuality and its social control. While acknowledging that sexual drives and orientations are formed in a…