Sexual Meanings : The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Colors Network For Cyril Wong

For Cyril Wong

Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free

He assures them that he is using all available resources to find out who is behind the mysterious deaths of their husbands

whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until

Sexual Meanings : The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Colors Network For Cyril WongThis 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies of male self