Sex in Development

Vincanne Adams

Description

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

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Human sexual activity
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822386414
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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SEX IN DEVELOPMENT

SEX IN DEVELOPMENT • • •

Science, Sexuality,

and Morality in Global

Perspective

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vincanne adamsand stacy leigh pigg, editors

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Duke University Press Durham & London 2005

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∫2005 Duke University Press

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To John Norby (from V. A.)

and to Jana Ghimire,srijana

(from S. L. P.)

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CONTENTS • • •

Acknowledgments ix

stacy leigh pigg and vincanne adams Introduction: The Moral Object of Sex 1

stacy leigh pigg Globalizing the Facts of Life 39

Part 1 The Production of New Subjectivities 67 • • •

michele rivkin-fish Moral Science and the Management of ‘‘Sexual Revolution’’ in Russia 71

heather paxson Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece 95

shanti a. parikh From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education in Uganda 125

Part 2 The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project 159 • • •

leslie butt Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia 163

heather s. dell ‘‘Ordinary’’ Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives: Liberalization and National Identity in India 187

vincanne adams Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China) 207

Part 3 Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics 241 • • •

vinh-kim nguyen Uses and Pleasures: Sexual Modernity, hiv/aids, and Confessional Technologies in a West African Metropolis 245

lawrence cohen The Kothi Wars:aidsCosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification 269

References 305 Contributors 333 Index 335

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • • •

This volume grew out of a creative spark in a spur-of-the-moment conversa- tion at a conference and, since 1999, a widening circle of colleagues have joined us in discussing the questions we raise in this volume. We owe our first acknowledgments to the contributors who made their work available for this collection and whose patience and responsiveness to our editorial sug- gestions was outstanding. Although it has taken much longer than either of us anticipated to complete this volume, we deeply appreciate the willingness of the contributors to join in the project and stay to the end. Lively discus- sions with participants at several conferences were key to the intellectual formation of this work, including the panel ‘‘Sex, Science, and the State’’ (organized by Stacy Pigg, with the participation of Leslie Butt and Lawrence Cohen) at the American Ethnological Society meeting in March 1999; the conference ‘‘Sexualities, Masculinities, and Culture in South Asia,’’ orga- nized by Sanjay Srivastava at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia; and the panel ‘‘Internationalisation and the Subject of Sex’’ (organized by Stacy Pigg and Leslie Butt) as well as the plenary sessions at the Third Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sex, Culture, and Society at the University of Melbourne in October 2001. We also wish to recognize here the creative dynamic of our collaboration. For Stacy, Vincanne’s un- canny, electrical ability to bridge ideas with a spark of insight has animated this project from the beginning. Always able to go straight to the core, to see the big picture, to turn the perfect phrase, and to pull it all together, her unwavering depth of intellect has held this volume together in numerous practical and ethereal ways. For Vincanne’s part, thanks are due to Stacy for her perspicacity, tenacity, and analytical brilliance. More than most collabora- tors, she seems always to be able to mix the hard and dirty work of painstak- ing revisions and literature reviews with a commitment to freshness of in-