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Sex in Development - Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective (Paperback, New)
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Sex in Development examines how development projects around the
world intended to promote population management, disease
prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and
unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes "normal" sexual
practices and identities. From sex education in Uganda to aids
prevention in India to family planning in Greece, various sites of
development work related to sex, sexuality, and reproduction are
examined in the rich, ethnographically grounded essays in this
volume. These essays demonstrate that ideas related to morality are
repeatedly enacted in ostensibly value-neutral efforts to put into
practice a "global" agenda reflecting the latest medical
science.Sex in Development combines the cultural analysis of
sexuality, critiques of global development, and science and
technology studies. Whether considering the resistance encountered
by representatives of an American pharmaceutical company attempting
to teach Russian doctors a "value free" way to offer patients birth
control or the tension between Tibetan Buddhist ideas of fertility
and the modernization schemes of the Chinese government, these
essays show that attempts to make sex a universal moral object to
be managed and controlled leave a host of moral ambiguities in
their wake as they are engaged, resisted, and reinvented in
different ways throughout the world. Contributors. Vincanne Adams,
Leslie Butt, Lawrence Cohen, Heather Dell, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Shanti
Parikh, Heather Paxson, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Michele Rivkin-Fish
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