TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sobo,Elisa Janine
AU  - Bell,Sandra
TI  - Celibacy, culture, and society: the anthropology of sexual abstinence 
SN  - 0299171604 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ800.15 .C45 
U1  - 306.73/2 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Celibacy
KW  - Sexual abstinence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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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