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An interpretation of desire : essays in the study of sexuality

Title
An interpretation of desire : essays in the study of sexuality / John H. Gagnon.
Author
Gagnon, John H.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Description
xxvi, 307 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Worlds of desire
Uniform Title
Worlds of desire
Subject
  • Sexology > Research
  • Sex (Psychology)
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Social interaction
  • Social influence
  • Interpersonal relations and culture
  • Interpersonal relations and culture
  • Sexology > Research
  • Social influence
  • Social interaction
  • Sexualität
  • Seksuologie
  • Seksueel gedrag
Genre/Form
Essays.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Prologue: An Unlikely Story (1990) -- pt. 1. Scripts, Conduct, and Science -- Sex Research and Social Change (1975) -- Scripts and the Coordination of Sexual Conduct (1974) -- Reconsiderations: The Kinsey Reports (1978) -- Science and the Politics of Pathology (1987) -- Gender Preference in Erotic Relations: The Kinsey Scale and Sexual Scripts (1990) -- Explicit and Implicit Use of the Scripting Perspective in Sex Research (1991) -- pt. 2. Quest for Desire -- Disease and Desire (1989) -- Theorizing Risky Sex (2000) -- Epidemics and Researchers: AIDS and the Practice of Social Studies (1992) -- Captain Cook and the Penetration of the Pacific (1997) -- Who Was That Girl? (2000) -- Epilogue: Sexual Conduct Revisited (1998).
ISBN
  • 0226278581
  • 9780226278582
  • 0226278603
  • 9780226278605
LCCN
2003010215
OCLC
  • ocm52178261
  • 52178261
  • SCSB-1317133
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library