By Jennifer Robertson
This e-book demonstrates the centrality of intercourse, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices.Moves past different “lesbian and homosexual stories” readers through providing a broader view of the importance of learning same-sex cultures and sexualities throughout cultures. bargains readings from all 4 subfields of anthropology: cultural, organic, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historic and utilized anthropology). contains dialogue of biotechnology and bioethics, healthiness and ailment, language, ethnicity, identification, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, improvement, and policymaking.
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The emphasis placed on gay men and their sexual behavior in the early stages of the epidemic constitutes a sharp departure from previous inattention to subordinate sexual groups. This attention, however, highlights their ‘‘otherness’’ in a manner reminiscent of 19th-century pathology models of homosexuality,118 emphasizing the naturalness of identity and reinforcing the sharp dichotomy between heterosexuality and homosexuality. This otherness is expanding to involve additional stigmatized groups at risk for AIDS, such as IV drug users, their partners, and inner city minority women, drawing on historically and culturally resonant stereotypes119.