Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of my very favorite readers in gender and sexuality, another fine contribution to the Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society, edited by two leading lights, Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contributions by the two editors, and by Jeffrey Clark, Lisa Law, Doug Porter, Jeffrey Clark, John D. Kelly, Adam Reed, and many others. From the publisher's blurb, "Discussions of sexuality in Asia and the Pacific have long been tinged with conceptions of the exotic Orient. Examining a world of erotic encounter between European, Asian, and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practices and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Polynesian islands. Considering sexuality as embedded in a complex social and political world structured and saturated by gender, race, and class relations, these scholars challenge the categories with which sex and gender have been named and studied. They examine these sites of desire through specific historic and cultural circumstances, from the first explorations of Europeans, through colonial power, to the contemporary issues of sexual tourism, prostitution, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. A unique and important contribution to the study of sexuality, this book also suggests that the history of sexuality in the West was shaped by myths of the legendary Orient and the exotic "Other." Examining erotic encounters between European, Asian and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practice and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Polynesian islands." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 356764

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Insular Pacific Asia Southeast Asia South Asia Island Southeast Asia Lenore Manderson Margaret Jolly

Schmidt, Robert A. and Barbara L. Voss, eds.

Archaeologies of Sexuality

London, Routledge, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. A fine reader in ethnography and ethnology of sex and sexuality research, with contributions by Robert A. Schmidt and Barbara L. Voss, the two editors, and by Gayle Rubin, Roberta Gilchrist, Whitney Davis, Lynn Meskell, Rosemary A. Joyce, Lauri A. Wilkie, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Jula G. Costello, Sandra E. Hollimon, Elizabeth Prine, Robert A. Schmidt and Victor Buchli. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv [2], 2-302 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 356747

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: sexuality research Robert A. Schmidt Barbara L. Voss Gayle Rubin Roberta Gilchrist Whitney Davis Lynn Meskell Rosemary A. Joyce Lauri A. Wilkie Eleanor Conlin Casella Jula G. Costello Sandra E. Hollimon Elizabeth Prine Robert A. Schmidt Victor Buchli

Schmitt, Arno and Jehoeda Sofer

Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies

New York, Harrington Park Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A pioneering work in gay studies, providing both insider and outsider perspectives on male-male sexuality in Moslem cultures. The senior editor completed a then 30,000-item bibliography of works about Muslim male sexuality. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owners' ink-stamps and inscriptions, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the printed, illustrated front softpaper wraps. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv [1], 1-201 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356760

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Moslem societies Muslim societies eroticism erotica sex research sexuality Arno Schmitt Jehoeda Softer Middle Eastern cultures

de Becker, Raymond

The Other Face of Love

New York, Grove Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible, positive contribution to sexuality studies, sympathetic and then up-to-date, with black-and-white illustrations and photographs, including to front and rear covers, of two women and two men. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Bound handsomely in purple cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers, too. Frontis matter + 2-209 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 348322

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: homosexuality|erotica|gay studies|lesbian studies|sexuality|Raymond de Becker

Kulick, Don

Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. This fine ethnography follows the lives of a tightly knit group of transgendered prostituted persons in Salvador, Brazil, analyzing the ways in which they modify their bodies (buttocks, breasts, etc.). Sexual networking of various forms is how they survive. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [1], 2-269 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 357245

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: transgender transsexualism transsexuality Brazil prostitution sexuality Don Kulick

Jean Laplanche

The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality

New York, The Unconscious in Translation, 2015. First English Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. First English Edition, translated from the original French edition, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith from the French. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 140 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 356746

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Jean Laplanche Sigmund Freud Donald Nicholson-smith sexuality biology biologism

Fradenburg, Louise and Carla Freccero, eds.

Premodern Sexualities

New York, Routledge, 1996. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with tight binding and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; light crimping to brief range of pages up-front, dissipating. Contributions by the two editors and by Jonathan Goldberg, Jose Piedra, Maria Carrion, Richard Corum, Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, Karma Lochrie, Simon Gaunt, Kathy Lavezzo and several others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii, 2-276 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 356766

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: premodern history Louise Fradenburg Carla Freccero sexuality gender relations European history

Joyce Peterson and Marilyn Mercer

Adultery for Adults

London, England, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1969. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A unique guide to self-development. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. [15], 16-126 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 356511

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Joyce Peterson Marilyn Mercer adultery marriage open marriage

Grove Press

Fille de Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of the Evening, Madams, a Few Occasionals & Some Royal Favorites

New York, Grove Press, 19m67. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, brilliant purple cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering over boards, minimal rubbing to extremities. Ex-libris bookplate at first free endpaper has led to some waffling of that page (alone). Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn along edges, else protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Many, many score photos and illustrations and with contributions by pimps and madams, from Boccaccio to Henry Miller. Laid in is a glossy black-and-white photograph of the "Mayflower Madam," Sydney Biddle Bowes," in a plastic sleeve. There are over 350 black-and-white illustrations and nearly 20 full-color plates. Photojournalistic essays.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 357462

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Storyville Sporting Girls prostitution Ladies of the Evening Red Light District brothels pimps madams

Shaner, Lora

Madam: Chronicles of a Nevada Cathouse

Las Vegas, Nevada, Huntington Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being a signed true First Edition. The author, Lora Shaner, was indeed the Madam of Sheri's Ranch, Pahrump, Nevada, for a number of years following a career in the Defense Department in New Mexico. The book is a narrative journal of Shaner's experiences as the Madam of Sheri's Ranch for five years, and of the lives of the women who toil there sexually. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the purple cloth over boards, gilt-lettered title at spine, with a bright and shiny interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, protected, and showing moderate wear to spine head and tail, some wear to edges and tips. Cover art by Richard Despain, reproduced in full at front and rear endpapers. Signed by the author at title page, being inscribed warmly to an adoring fan. Laid in is a newspaper article about her from the November 13, 1998 issue of the Pahrump Valley Times (pp. A10-A12). 305 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 357460

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Nevada brothel prostitution Lora Shaner legal prostitution cathouses sexuality

Spada, James

The Spada Report: The Newest Survey of Gay Male Sexuality

New York, Signet, a New Directions Book, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. From the personal library of the noted sex researcher Michael C. Weidemann, with his ink stamp and an accession sticker at spine bottom. Stated First Printing, containing breakthrough frankness, and in their own words, over 1000 gay men, ages 16 to 77. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 338 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 356756

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: James Spada gay male sexuality survey research sex research

Stockdill, Brett C.

Activism Against Aids: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race. Gender, & Class

Boulder, Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Contains a Preface, several appendixes, scholarly notes and references, an index and with several illustrations. First Edition, First Printing. Brown, printed cloth over boards. Includes great discussions of ACT-UP, HIV transmission risks in institutions among prisoners and soldiers, etc. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. xvi, 1-211 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 356755

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Brett C. Stockdill AIDS HIV AIDS activism race gender class

Wiederman, Michael W. and Bernard E. Whitely, Jr., eds.

Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality

Mahwah, Nj, Lawrence Erblaum Associates, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, being only three additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the raspberry-colored wraps, with light crease along rear panel. A fine, multi-disciplinary examination of the specific methodological issues inherent in conducting human sexuality research. The methodological techniques and advances that are familiar to researchers trained in one discipline are often unfamiliar to others. Will enrich collaboration between representatives of many different disciplines in human sexuality research, sociologists to anthropologists, clinicians to statisticians. Will show readers how to measure sexuality variables; how to design studies, recruit participants and collect data; how to consider cultural and ethical issues; and how to perform and interpret statistical analyses. Each of the 21 self-standing chapters provides an expert overview on a particular area, contains practical and concrete advice, and features an annotated list of readings for future study. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Contributions by the two editors and by David L. Weis, Michael P. Dunne, Monica M. Moore, Suzanne G. Frayser, Michael R. Stevenson, Paul Okami and many others. vii, 532pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 356745

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: Michael W. Wiederman Bernard E. Whitely, Jr. human sexuality

Kempton, Winifred and Rose Forman

Guidelines for Training in Sexuality and the Mentally Handicapped

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1976. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Second Printing of an early and important how-to guide to conduct sexuality research ethically and successfully. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Moderately rubbed printed, colorful stiff card stock wraps. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 163 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 356763

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: sexuality research Winifred Kempton Rose Forman

Winkler, John J.

The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece

New York, Routledge, 1990. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Another fine contribution to the series The New Ancient World. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [1], 2-269 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 350535

Catalogue: Sexuality and Sexology

Keywords: sexuality|Ancient Greece|the anthropology of sex|homosexuality|John J. Winkler