The Many Sexes of Risk: Gender,Disease, and Identity in the Asia-Pacific Region and Elsewhere

That potential pathogens transit to and through body parts and fluids of densely connected individuals belonging to highly mobile ethnic groups shows how relevant to health is the study of sexual networking. Five recent books show sexual networking has quickened owing to labor migration, poverty, religious double standards, militarism, tourism, and nation building. Gender conventions and sexual practice in Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea have hardened in some contexts and destabilized in others. HIV, HPV, AIDS, and cervical cancer are expressed in gendered and sexed bodies, behaviors, technologies, and ideas that are often situated in violent interpersonal and structural contexts.