Description: UNIT 1. Sexuality and Society Part A. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 1. Women's Ideal Bodies Then and Now, Julia Savacool, Marie Claire, April 2004 The fascinating travelogue spans a century and includes cultures as varied as China, South Africa, Mongolia, Fiji, and Jamaica. What was considered attractive, sexy, desirable-soft bellies, coco-cola bottle shapes, mampi-size (large boned), or compact statures-has changed, and often to a westernized ideal. 2. Sex Around the World, Sharlene K. Johnson, More, December 2002/January 2003 Women from seven countries-Italy, Egypt, Mexico, Sweden, India, Brazil, and Japan-talk openly with seven foreign correspondents about sex, love, relationships, and their lives. 3. The Beauty Pageant Prevails, Esther Haynes, Jane, April 2004 Senior editor Haynes traveled to many poverty-ridden, struggling, crime-filled countries to learn about the paradoxical trend of beauty pageant contestants with guns. This article moves from Russia's "Miss Bureau of Prisons Pageant" to Columbia's hundreds of pageants year-round. 4. A Deadly Passage to India, Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek, November 25, 2002 India is a country with a rapidly growing AIDS crisis-40 million HIV positive Indians are predicted by the end of this decade. New governmental and grass roots efforts for sex education and safe-sex are targeting sex-workers and the general population. 5. AIDS: 20 Years of Terror, Bernard Otabil, West Africa (London), June 11-17, 2001 Twelve-year old Nkosi Johnson called for HIV-positive people to be treated as equals at the 13th Annual International AIDS Conference of 2000. By the 14th, in 2001, he was dead. This series of articles from a popular African magazine outlines the history, scope, and issues facing the continent and its people. 6. A Man of Words: A Man of Action, Dann Dulin, A & U (Art & Understanding), June 2002 The 1985 death of a fellow actor, then his brother's 1990 AIDS diagnosis, got Danny Glover involved. From there, Glover became a high-profile activist and the first goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program, dividing his time between Africa and America to share his global vision for a sustainable world. 7. Slaves of the Brothel, Sebastian Junger, Vanity Fair, July 2002 In postwar Kosovo, 200,000 eastern European women a year, lured by promises of work, are forced into prostitution. Unfortunately, international efforts to prosecute those responsible for this 712 billion dollars trafficking have been unsuccessful, so women like Niki, whom we meet in this article, live as terrified slaves. 8. Rock the Casbah, T. Z. Parsa, Details, June/July 2002 What is it like to be a kid in Iran? Well, you are the majority since 70 percent of Iran's 66 million people are under 30. Take this guided tour of the night-life options available to young Iranians despite the efforts of the police, mullahs, and basij (formal and volunteer religious enforcers) to stop them. Part B. Changing Society/Changing Sexuality 9. The Princess Paradox, James Poniewozik, Time, April 5, 2004 In this review of the new blending of feminism and fantasy in today's fairy tale princess-meets-prince movies, there are signs of progress in the roles of women and equalitarian relationships. 10. The Manliness of Men, Harvey Mansfield, The American Enterprise, September 2003 This article focuses on the evolution of modern society and gender roles. The author discusses how men are ideally to act in a "manly" way. 11. The New Gender Wars, Sarah Blustain, Psychology Today, November/December 2000 Today, the war between the sexes pits primarily male researchers, who claim that evolution and biology account for gender differences in sexual and nurturing behaviors, against primarily female researchers, who claim that culture and socialization are reasons for t

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