Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power

by Richard G. Parker (Editor), Peter Aggleton (Editor), Regina Barbosa (Editor)

This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the globe. They map areas that are currently at the cutting edge of social science writing on sexuality, as well as the complex interface between theory and practice. Framing the Sexual Subject highlights the extent to which populations and communities that once were the object of scientific scrutiny have increasingly demanded the right to speak on their own behalf, as subjects of their own sexualities and agents of their own sexual histories.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology

281 pages, Hardcover

First published December 24, 1999

About the author

Richard Guy Parker (born 1956) is a professor of sociomedical sciences and of anthropology, arts and sciences, at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where he received an award for teaching excellence in 2004.
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Reviews

[astrid · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent collection of essays on turn-of-the-century sexuality, especially vis-à-vis HIV/AIDS and heightened interdisciplinary interest in the subject on this basis (alongside wider sexual revolution and queer and women’s rights movements). Admittedly a bit dated, and as with many such collections, mixed levels of quality and insight, but the format had the added benefit of being a good spread of locations and topics, which I enjoyed. On this note, also an enjoyable variety of disciplinary influences, with clear biomedical strands and engagements alongside sociological, anthropological, IR, and political ones. Not sure I’d explicitly recommend per se (unless you have a particular interest in any of the individual chapters), but still a perfectly compelling and informative read.