Bücher der Reihe Sexuality, Culture and Health

This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which there is major and continuing debate in the field of sexuality. With contributions from leading and new scholars and activists from across the globe, this book highlights tensions or 'flash-points' in contemporary debate, and offers some innovative ways forward in terms of thinking about sexuality.

Examines sexual practices and drug use among the young. This book looks at transition to adulthood as socially and culturally organized. It points at similarities and differences among the young in different social and cultural settings. It is useful for those working with young people and is suitable for multidisciplinary courses.

Based on field research and interviews this text discusses the challenges faced by young men in poor urban settings and examines education, employment, sexual behaviour, HIV/AIDS and violence.

Surveys how changes taking place in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. This book will be of interest to professionals, advocates and policy researchers and is suitable for courses covering areas such as gender studies, human sexuality, public health and social policy.

Features contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people. This work brings together discussions on issues relating to young people and their sexual activities, exploring how these issues are affected by the contexts in which they live.

Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national contributions, this book reveals both similarities and important differences that mark sexuality and drug use among young in different social and cultural settings.

Brings together a selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights. This book is intended for students and researchers in these areas, activists, health workers and service providers.

Brings together a selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights. This book is intended for students and researchers in these areas, activists, health workers and service providers.

This book identifies and locates sexual and gender diverse young people¿s struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts, exploring their experiences in diverse but linked settings: the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services.

Little has been documented about male sex work, leaving many questions unanswered about those involved: their identities and self-understandings, the practices involved, and the contexts in which they occur. This new book explores health, social, political, economic and human rights issues in male sex work around the world.

Sex matters in contemporary Indonesia and Indonesian sexualities are vibrant, complex and constantly under contestation. This innovative volume explores sexual politics in a wide variety of contexts; highlights sexual diversity, as well as opposition to diversity; examines and critiques representations of sexuality; and advances theorisations of sexuality in non-western settings.

This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences intelligible. Through a series of empirically and historically detailed case studies, the book examines how new technologies and scientific artifacts mediate sexual encounters and shape the worlds and self-practices of gay men.

This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions- including the mutually constitutive relationship- among sexualities, transnationalism, and globalization.

Sex matters in contemporary Indonesia and Indonesian sexualities are vibrant, complex and constantly under contestation. This innovative volume explores sexual politics in a wide variety of contexts; highlights sexual diversity, as well as opposition to diversity; examines and critiques representations of sexuality; and advances theorisations of sexuality in non-western settings.

This book, Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa is structured around four major themes.