Sexual Inequalities and Social JusticeNiels Teunis, Gilbert H. Herdt This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and structural violence among a range of populations in various geographic, historical, and cultural arenas. In particular, the essays consider racial minorities including Hispanics, Koreans, and African Americans; discuss disabled people; examine issues including substance abuse, sexual coercion, and HIV/AIDS; and delve into other topics including religion and politics. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia. The authors address the complex and challenging question of how the research under discussion here can make a real contribution to the struggle for social justice. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
active AIDS American attitudes become behavior body boys California Catholic childhood Church Circuit comfort concerns construction context create critical cultural dance described desire disabled discussion effect emergence essay example experiences expressed feel felt female focus forms friends friendship function gay men gender girls GSAs Herdt heterosexual HIV-positive human identity important individuals inequality infection interviews issues knowledge Latino gay lesbian lives male married masculine means Mexican moral movement noted older oppression organizations Parker participants party percent political positive practices Press prevention promote questions regard relationships reported responses result risk role sense sexual sexual abuse sexual inequality sexuality education Shuttleworth social society stigmatization structural subjective suggest tion understanding United University woman women York young youths