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Global Sex Hardback - 2001

by Dennis Altman

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Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure--as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health--are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.

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How-and why-do we connect two of the dominant preoccupations of current social science and popular debate, namely globalization and the preoccupation with sexuality?

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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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  • Title Global Sex
  • Author Dennis Altman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date April 15, 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226016061 / 0226016064
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.89 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.26 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex customs, Globalization
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00036884
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.7

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  • Booklist, 04/15/2001, Page 1514
  • Choice, 12/01/2001, Page 723
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2001, Page 148
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/07/2001, Page 235

About the author

Dennis Altman is a professor in the School of Politics, Sociology, and Anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia. He is the author of eight books, including AIDS in the Mind of America and Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation.
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