Global Sex

by Dennis Altman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226016064
• ISBN13: 9780226016061
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

How sex has been shaped and marketed in the global economy

This unparalleled discussion of the globalization of human sexuality provides the first major work to examine the issue, from how sex has been shaped and marketed in the new global economy to how access to Western pornography has changed sexual behavior in China. Global Sex offers a fascinating and informative set of connections between economics, human sexuality, and marketing behaviors results.