Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sexual matters: On conceptualizing sexuality in history -- Sexual scripts -- Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: A theoretical comment -- Gender as a useful category of historical analysis -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: The sexual politics of a word --'That we should all turn queer?': Homosexual stigma in the making of manhood and the breaking of a revolution in Nicaragua -- Discourse, desire and sexual deviance: Some problems in a history of homosexuality -- Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality -- 'The unclean motion of the generative parts': Frameworks in Western thought on sexuality -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence -- The hijras of India: Cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role -- Capitalism and gay identity -- Masculinities and globalization -- Violence, sexuality, and women's lives -- Reproductive and sexual rights: A feminist perspective -- HIV, heroin and heterosexual relations -- An explosion of Thai identities: Global queering and re-imagining queer theory -- Bhai-behen, true love, time pass: Friendships and sexual partnerships among youth in an Indian metropolis -- Masculinity and urban men: Perceived scripts for courtship, romantic, and sexual interactions with women -- Some traditional methods are more modern than others: Rhythm, withdrawal and the changing meanings of sexual initimacy in Mexican companionate marriage -- Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda -- Gendered scripts and the sexual scene: Promoting sexual subjects among Brazilian teenagers -- HIV- and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: A conceptual framework and implications for action -- Bracketing sexuality: Human rights and sexual orientation : A decade of development and denial at the UN.

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