Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Approaches to Human Sexuality
6. 1. Sex in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea 13
7. 2. Freud and the Repressive Hypothesis 22
8. 3. Foucault: Sex as Culture 32
9. Part II: Power, Meaning and Social Structure: an Irish Case-Study
10. 4. Irish Sexual Morality and Family Systems 43
11. 5. Functionalist Dilemmas 56
12. 6. The Peculiarities of Irish Demography 73
13. 7. Imagining Sexuality: History as a Cognitive System 84
14. 8. Coercion and Meaning 100
15. 9. Disciplinary Regimes in the History of Irish Sexuality 113
16. Part III: Anthropological Remarks
17. 10. Clarifying the Culture Concept 129
18. 11. Intersubjectivity Revisited 141
19. 12. Subjectification and Interpretation 157
20. Conclusion 171
21. Bibliography 181
22. Index 191