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  • Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

    Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gilbert Herdt ...
    "Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Third Sex, Third Gender

    Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Most modern discussions of the relationship of biological sex to gender presuppose that there are two genders, male and female, founded on the two biological sexes. But not all cultures share this essentialist assumption, and even Western societies have not always embraced it. Bringing together historical and anthropological studies, Third Sex, Third Gender challenges the usual emphasis on sexual ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Secrecy and Cultural Reality

    Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House

    by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Gay and Lesbian Youth

    by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Here is a pioneering volume that explores adolescent homosexuality around the world. Social scientists examine the personal experiences of gay and lesbian teenagers from culture to culture and address the problems and obstacles these young people face. The changing contexts, values, and goals of societies worldwide are affecting how these adolescents adapt to being homosexual, and this compelling ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Moral Panics, Sex Panics

    Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt ...
    Series Book 8 - Intersections
    Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Culture and Sexual Risk

    Edited by Hans ten Brummelhuis, Gilbert Herdt ...
    Brummelhuis and Herdt provide an intense examination of sexual risk and its cultural configurations heretofore missing from the AIDS literature. The chapters on Western gay men speak to the pressing methodological, conceptual and theoretical needs in HIV/AIDS research while providing an understanding and documentation of gay men's lives within the emerging corpus of lesbian and gay studies. ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Gay and Lesbian Aging

    Research and Future Directions

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt, PhD, Brian De Vries, PhD ...
    The year 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the landmark "declassification" of homosexuality as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association--a watershed in the lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. For the first time in history, a generation of self-identified lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender individuals are approaching retirement. This volume brings to the forefront ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • 21st Century Sexualities

    Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights

    Edited by Gilbert Herdt, Cymene Howe ...
    Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological material from the major domains of sexual education, sexual health, sexual rights, and globalization, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    by Jerry Bigner, Joseph L. Wetchler ...
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    $63.20 CAD

  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    by Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • "You Can Tell Just By Looking"

    And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

    by Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico ...
    Series Book 3 - Myths Made in America
    **2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT NonfictionBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives**In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Freedom Paradox

    Towards a post-secular ethics

    by Clive Hamilton ...
    Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy?The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, endless choice and the pleasures of the body.Clive Hamilton argues that the paradox of modern ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD