Transgressive Sex

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.

• Chapter 1. Sexual Transgression, Social Order and the SelfHastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan, both at Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)Chapter 2. Sexually Active Virgins: Negotiating Adolescent Femininity, Colour and Safety in Cape TownMarie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Ann-Karina Henriksen, both at University of Copenhagen (Denmark)Chapter 3. Summer Sex: Youth, Desire and the Carnivalesque at the English SeasideSuzanne Clisby, University of Hull (United Kingdom)Chapter 4. A Curious Threesome: Transgression, Conservatism and Teenage Sex in the ‘Free House’ in Northern IrelandRosellen Roche, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)Chapter 5. Zoosex and Other Relationships with AnimalsRebecca Cassidy, Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom)Chapter 6. Dancing Sexuality in the Cook IslandsKalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne (Australia)Chapter 7. ‘Let Them Hear Us!’ The Politics of Same-sex Transgression in Contemporary PolandMonika Baer, Wroclaw University (Poland)Chapter 8. Taming the Bush: Morality, AIDS Prevention and Gay Sex in Public PlacesLaurent Gaissad, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)Chapter 9. Transgression and the Making of ‘Western’ Sexual SciencesMark Johnson, ResearcherChapter 10. What Constitutes Transgressive Sex?: The Case of Child Prostitution in ThailandHeather Montgomery, Open University (United Kingdom)Chapter 11. Courting Transgression: Customary Law and Sexual Violence in Aboriginal AustraliaFiona Magowan, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)Chapter 12. Managing Sexual Advances in VanuatuIngvill Kristiansen, Harstad University College (Norway)Notes on ContributorsIndex

“Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan have compiled a series of chapters on the cutting edge of sexuality and gender studies…All of the authors presented here are quite honest in narrating the challenges they experienced in undertaking difficult research subjects in often sensitive areas. The researchers and editors of the volume are to be commended for addressing such complex topics in an unessentialized manner and providing insight into areas of sexuality that are not often discussed.”  ·  American Ethnologist“The twelve well-considered and researched papers in this volume are all based on empirical data spread across the globe from Ireland to Thailand. They deal with every possible location of sexuality, in kinship, in witchcraft, in national politics and in fieldwork to name some. The introduction to the volume highlights the theoretical concerns and salient points of discussion.”  ·  Anthropological Notebooks“This book offers some challenging perspectives on sexual variability. Its chapters collectively make the case against diagnosing some manifestations of that variability as “healthier” than others -- a habit that still finds its way into pedagogy and clinical practice, even as it becomes rarer in anthropological theory. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the comparative study of sexuality and would be a useful pedagogical tool for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in that field.”  ·  Medical Anthropology Quarterly