Richard Parker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and Director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Director and President of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Peter Aggleton is Professor of Education and Health and holds a UNSW Strategic Chair at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Australia.

1. IntroductionSection 1: Culture, Society and Sexuality Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History3. Sexual Scripts4. Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical CommentPart 2: Gender and Power 5. Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis6. 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word7. 'That We Should All Turn Queer?': Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality 8. Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality 9. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality10. 'The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on SexualityPart 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities 11. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence12. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role13. Capitalism and Gay Identity Section 2: Sexual Meanings, Health, and Rights Part 5: Gender, Power and Rights 14. Masculinities and Globalization15. Violence, Sexuality, and Women's Lives16. Reproductive and Sexual Rights: A Feminist Perspective Part 6: Sexual Categories and Classification 17. HIV, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations18. An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Re-Imaging Queer Theory19. Bhai-behen, True Love, Time Pass: Friendships and Sexual Partnerships among Youth in an Indian MetropolisPart 7: Sexual Negotiations and Transactions 20. Masculinity and Urban Men: Perceived Scripts for Courtship, Romantic, and Sexual Interactions with Women21. Some Traditional Methods are More Modern than Others: Rhythm, Withdrawal and the Changing Meanings of Sexual Intimacy in Mexican Companionate Marriage22. Mobility, Sexual Networks and Exchange among Bodabodamen in Southwest UgandaPart 8: Contemporary and Future Challenges 23. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene: Promoting Sexual Subjects among Brazilian Teenagers 24. HIV and AIDS-related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Action25. Bracketing Sexuality: Human Rights and Sexual Orientation - A Decade of Development and Denial at the UN