Dennis Altman: Global Sex

Globalisation is changing more than just our world economy, Altman says: it is radically reshaping the way we conceive of ourselves and experience our sexuality.

With a fresh approach that incorporates headline events of the last few years - the sex scandals that rocked both Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and United States President Bill Clinton and the spread of Aids in Africa, for instance - he sheds light on how the personal and the political have become indistinguishable, and looks at how pleasures of the body are framed, shaped, commercialised and even commodified in our new global economy.

Globalisation, he says, affects gender relations, political power, public health, migration and even the ways we imagine our own sense of self and place.

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