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Global Sex (Hardcover, New)
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The introduction of television to Fiji triggers an outbreak of
bulimia, as young women try to emulate the stars of "Baywatch," A
German tourist in Bangkok solicits a prostitute whom he met on the
Internet. Images of a tearful Monica Lewinsky are broadcast on CNN
to the farthest reaches of the globe. We really do live in a
borderless world. Transportation, mass media, emigration,
multinational corporations, advances in modern communications, and
new information technologies all bring populations within the scope
of an interconnected consumer culture. But this rapid process of
globalization changes more than just our world economy. It
radically reshapes the way we conceive of ourselves and experience
our sexuality.
"Global Sex" is the first major work to take both the issues of
globalization and sexuality head on. Dennis Altman looks at how
pleasures of the body are framed, shaped, commercialized, and even
commodified in our new global economy, exploring the impact of
globalization on gender relations, political power, public health,
migration, and the ways in which we imagine our own sense of self
and place. Ranging from U.N. debates over abortion, to the advent
of cybersex, to the rapid spread of AIDS in Africa, to the sex
scandals that rocked both Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar
Ibrahim and President Bill Clinton, "Global Sex" sheds new light on
how the personal and the political are now, more than ever,
indistinguishable.
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