"Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral scie ..."
"Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the ..."
"Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, this book documents a diverse portfolio of religious responses to HIV and AIDS at the local and global levels in sites from sub-Saharan Africa to New York City. The volume goes beyond the psychology of religion, which is often based on how religion is used to cope with illness. It seeks to examine the role of religious institutions and cultures as key players in civil society, and to examine not ..."
"Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the p ..."
"The Catholic Church refined this concept 60 years ago when it promulgated '
natural' family planning ('rhythm method') as the only approved ... 2009, Aguwa
2010). ... or reducing teenage pregnancy than are 'abstinence plus' programmes
that use a hierarchical approach that promotes abstinence first but also condoms
and ..."
"Miguel Muñoz-Laboy is an Associate Professor at Temple University, USA, and a
public health and social work researcher whose work focuses on the
intersections of social and cultural factors as determinants of HIV risk. Jonathan
Garcia is an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, USA, and a
political anthropologist with extensive field research focused on HIV and AIDS
and community mobilisation in Brazil and the United ..."
Love and Globalization Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World by MiguelMunoz-Laboy Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-29718-0, ISBN: 1-282-29718-X
"In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of ..."
"Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral scie ..."