Table of Contents

1. Introduction Richard Parker & Peter Aggleton Section I: Culture, Society and Sexuality: Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History Robert A. Padgug; 3. Sexual Scripts William Simon & John H. Gagnon; 4. Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment Carole S. Vance; Part 2: Gender and Power: 5. Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis Joan Wallach Scott; 6. 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word Donna J. Haraway; 7. 'That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua Roger N. Lancaster; Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality: 8. Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality Jeffrey Weeks; 9. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality Gayle S. Rubin; 10. 'The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality Robert W. Connell & Gary W. Dowsett; Part 4: Sexual Idenities/Sexual Communities: 11. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Adrienne Rich; 12. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role Serena Nanda; 13. Capitalism and Gay Identity John D'Emilio; Section II: Sexuality, Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS: Part 5: Sexual Classifications: 14. 'Within Four Walls': Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS Richard Parker; 15. Silences: 'Hispanics', AIDS, and Sexual Practices Ana Maria Alonso & Maria Teresa Koreck; 16. HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations Stephanie Kane; Part 6: Sexual Meanings and HIV/AIDS Prevention: 17. Prostitution Viewed Cross-culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research Barbara O. de Zalduondo; 18. Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil Richard Parker; 19. Sexuality, Identity and Community: The Experience of MESMAC Katie Deverell & Alan Prout; Part 7: Sexual Representations and the Politics of AIDS: 20. AIDS, Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification Paula Treichler; 21. Inventing 'African AIDS' Cindy Patton; 22. Safer Sex as Community Practice Simon Watney; Part 8: Methodological Approaches: 23. Sexual Culture, HIV Transmission, and AIDS Research Richard G. Parker, Gilbert Herdt & Manuel Carballo; 24. Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for AIDS Prevention - An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s Ralph Bolton; 25. Feminist Methodology and Young People's Sexuality Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe & Rachel Thomson