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Tracing the combined impact of telecommunications, faster air-travel as well as the Internet on sexual expression the planet over, Altman (Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation) historicizes sexual activity while exploring specific changes caused by advances in technology. Covering such issues as the impact of prostitution and pornography on global economics, and exactly how AIDS affects sexual practices, legislation as well as the commercialization of sex, he presents a gripping portrait of an world barely able to hold pace psychologically, sociologically and theologically with enormous, rapid-fire changes. An AIDS/HIV activist also as a professor within the School of Politics, Sociology and Anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia, Altman is best when he's most specific for example, when he compares Bangkok's current reputation with Vienna's as "the global brothel" circa 1900; when he traces the dissemination of U.S. gay culture throughout the world; or when he discusses how Reagan and Thatcher used traditional "moral panics" to promote their agendas. Drawing upon a broad array of sources and cultural artifacts including Playboy, U.N. Development Programme reports, Sharon Stone's famous leg crossing in Basic Instinct, and La Cage aux Folles, too since the theories of Freud, Herbert Marcuse, William Reich and Franz Fanon Altman ranges away from usual boundaries of academic research. Offering neither a dire warning nor reasons to rejoice (he sees "the interconnectedness from the world [as] both a threat and an opportunity) his savvy, energetic book truly maintains a global perspective.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Altman (politics, sociology, and anthropology, LaTrobe Univ., Australia) thoroughly analyzes just how globalization has influenced sex in various cultures around the world. He discusses the worldwide ramifications of various areas of sex AIDS, beauty pageants, prostitution, abortion, sterilization programs, genital mutilation, yet others always showing the complexities with the problems. For example, gay and lesbian issues all in the world happen to be greatly affected by Western ideas, but in the same time definitions, behaviors, and policies differ from country to country. What is known as gay behavior is simply not clear. Almost all of all, Altman implies that sex and sexuality usually are not just personal and matters but have considerably more to do with global politics and economies. Despite the title, this work is scholarly in tone, although, due to the subject, it might be lurid in details. Recommended for big public and academic libraries. Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Coll., Garden City, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers on the Hardcover edition.