Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence / edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sobo, Elisa Janine, 1963-, Bell, Sandra, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
Subjects:	Celibacy. Sexual abstinence.

Table of 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.

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