{"product_id":"sex-in-development-9780822334798","title":"Sex in Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographic studies of the role of sexuality and gender in development discourse and policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume is an interesting read for social scientists, social historians, and health care workers. By bringing such richly documented case studies together, it inspires researchers who study sexuality to reflect upon how exactly sexuality is constituted in their time and place…. [T]his volume is a must.” - Anna C. M. Tijsseling, \u003ci\u003eArchives of Sexual Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective. . . . [I]t will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology.\" - Sophie Day, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n 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 programs (Adams and Pigg, 21). 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\u003cbr\u003efield.” - Kate Bedford, \u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] series of rich and detailed ethnographic studies carried out by anthropologists over the past 10 years in Asia, Africa and Europe. . . . [T]his collection makes an important contribution to fledgling debates on sexuality and development in a global context.” - Carolyn H. Williams, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book charts territory that has so far been little explored in gender and development literature, namely the interrelationships between totalizing, ‘scientifically neutral’ concepts of sex and sexuality and local constructs of sex and gender in developing societies.”— - Sylvia Chant, \u003ci\u003eProgress in Development Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book makes a case for thinking in new directions about sexuality in relation to the ‘scientization’ of development policies. It's an important reference work for scholarship in anthropology, public health, and gender and sexuality studies, and in development studies.” - \u003ci\u003eFrauen Solidarität\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eConceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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 *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] series of rich and detailed ethnographic studies carried out by anthropologists over the past 10 years in Asia, Africa and Europe. . . . [T]his collection makes an important contribution to fledgling debates on sexuality and development in a global context.” -- Carolyn H. Williams * Feminist Review *\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n 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 programs (Adams and Pigg, 21). 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\u003cbr\u003efield.” -- Kate Bedford * Signs *\u003cbr\u003e“This book charts territory that has so far been little explored in gender and development literature, namely the interrelationships between totalizing, ‘scientifically neutral’ concepts of sex and sexuality and local constructs of sex and gender in developing societies.” -- Sylvia Chant * Progress in Development Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“This volume is an interesting read for social scientists, social historians, and health care workers. By bringing such richly documented case studies together, it inspires researchers who study sexuality to reflect upon how exactly sexuality is constituted in their time and place…. [T]his volume is a must.” -- Anna C. M. Tijsseling * Archives of Sexual Behavior *\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection adopts a sophisticated ethnographic and historical perspective. . . . [I]t will be invaluable to those with an interest in health policy or development as well as anthropology.\" -- Sophie Day * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex \/Stacy Leigh Pigg and Vincanne Adams 1\u003cbr\u003e Globalizing the Facts of Life \/ Stacy Leigh Pigg 39\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: The Production of New Subjectivities 67\u003cbr\u003e Moral Science and the Management of \"Sexual Revolution\" in Russia \/ Michele Rivkin-Fish 71\u003cbr\u003e Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece \/ Heather Paxson 95\u003cbr\u003e From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education in Uganda \/ Shanti A. Parikh 125\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project 159\u003cbr\u003e Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia \/ Leslie Butt 163\u003cbr\u003e \"Ordinary\" Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives: Liberalization and National Identity in India \/ Heather S. Dell 187\u003cbr\u003e Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) \/ Vincanne Adams 207\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics 241\u003cbr\u003e Uses and Pleasures: Sexual Modernity, HIV\/AIDS, and Confessional Technologies in a West African Metropolis \/ Vinh-Kim Nguyen 245\u003cbr\u003e The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification \/ Lawrence Cohen 269\u003cbr\u003e References 305\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 333\u003cbr\u003e Index 335","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138190606679,"sku":"9780822334798","price":109.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334798.jpg?v=1751918371","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sex-in-development-9780822334798","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}