Part One: Bodies, cultures, and identities -- 1 Bodyplay:corporeality in a discursive silence -- 2 Masculinity in Indonesia:Genders, sexualities, and identities in a changing society -- 3 Male homosexuality and seropositivity:The Construction of social identities in Brazil -- Part two: Sex, Gender, and power -- 4 Sexual rights: Inventing a concept, mapping -- 5 Cross-National perspectives on gender and power -- 6 Gender stereotypes and power relations -- Part Three: Hegemony, Oppression and Empowerment -- 7 AIDS, medicine, and moral panic in the philippines -- 8 Survival sex and HIV/AIDS in an african city -- 9 Cultural regulation, self-regulation and sexuality -- 10 Gendered scripts and the sexual scene.