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This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture : it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and what are the returns for investing money, time, knowledge, and energy in establishing and enhancing our sexual selves ? Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz disentangle the current cultural politics of heterosexual life, arguing that sex – that messy amalgam of sexual affects and experiences – has increasingly assumed an economic character. Some may opt for plastic surgery to beautify their face or body, while others may consume popular sex advice or attend seduction classes. Beyond particular practices such as these, the authors trace an emerging form of “neoliberal” sexual capital, which is the ability to glean self-appreciation from sexual encounters and to use this self-value to foster employability, as exemplified by Silicon Valley sex parties.This highly original book will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and cultural studies and to anyone interested in the nature of sex and how it is changing today

Sex --- Social influence --- Power (Social sciences) --- Sex - Economic aspects --- Sex. --- Social influence. --- Sexualité. --- Influence sociale. --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Sexualité --- sexuality. --- Economic aspects. --- Aspect économique. --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales). --- Power (Social sciences). --- Sexual Behavior. --- Sexualité --- Sexualité. --- Aspect économique.

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How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African C

Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History. --- Africa --- Colonial influence. --- Social science --- Women. --- Women's studies. --- History --- Africa. --- Femmes --- Histoire --- Afrique --- Influence coloniale --- Gender --- Colonialism --- Images of women

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Female circumcision --- Human body --- Ethnology --- Feminism --- Excision (Ethnologie) --- Corps humain --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Féminisme --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Africa --- Afrique --- Colonial influence. --- Influence coloniale --- Female circumcision - Africa --- Human body - Social aspects - Africa --- Africa - Colonial influence --- Female genital mutilation --- Book

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"At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school of thought at Columbia University called cultural anthropology. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems -- from childrearing to how to live well -- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students were some of the century's intellectual stars: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now-classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic to the South Pacific and overturned the relationship between biology and behavior. Their work reshaped how we think of women and men, normalcy and deviance, and re-created our place in a world of many cultures and value systems. Gods of the Upper Air is a page-turning narrative of radical ideas and adventurous lives, a history rich in scandal, romance, and rivalry, and a genesis story of the fluid conceptions of identity that define our present moment"--

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Aesthetics --- Art --- Depth psychology --- Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Bracha --- Lacan, Jacques --- Feminism and art. --- Femininity in art. --- Psychoanalysis and art. --- Gaze --- Féminisme et art --- Féminité dans l'art --- Psychanalyse et art --- Regard --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- Lacan, Jacques, --- Influence --- Féminisme et art --- Féminité dans l'art --- Influence. --- Viewing habits --- Psychoanalysis --- Féminité --- Book