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Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence
- Title
- Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence / edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell.
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 274 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective : an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo -- Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore -- The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow -- The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko -- The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel -- Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins -- Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke -- Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami -- Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal -- Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar -- Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester -- Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. De Munck -- Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw -- A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-6917
- ISBN
- 0299171604 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0299171647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00010697
- OCLC
- 44727846
- Title
- Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence / edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell.
- Imprint
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-Bell, Sandra, 1948-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-6917