All over the world, men as well as women exchange sex for money and other forms of reward, sometimes with other men and sometimes with women. In contrast to female prostitution, however, relatively little is known about male sex work, leaving questions unanswered about the individuals involved: their identities and self-understandings, the practices concerned, and the contexts in which they take place.

This book updates the ground-breaking 1998 volume of the same name with an entirely new selection of chapters exploring health, social, political, economic and human rights issues in relation to men who sell sex. Looking at Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, each chapter explores questions such as:

• What is known about the different ways in which men exchange sex for money or other forms of reward?

• What are the major contexts in which sexual exchange takes place?

• What meanings do such practices carry for the different partners involved?

• What are the health and other implications of contemporary forms of male sex work?

Men Who Sell Sex seeks to push the boundaries both of current personal and social understandings and the practices to which these give rise. It is an important reference work for academics and researchers interested in sex work and men’s health including those working in public health, sociology, social work, anthropology, human geography and development studies.

An early work in the gay liberation movement that recognized the divisions within that movement as a form of healthy diversity, this anniversary edition reconsiders homosexuality in light of the current gay rights debate and continues to challenge conventional notions of sex and gender. Drawing on stories from the emergent movement and on the writings of James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Herbert Marcuse, and Kate Millett, its objective is to propose ways in which to create a common community out of a shared sexuality and experience.

Trigiano (plant biotechnology and pathology, University of Tennessee) and Gray (horticulture, University of Florida) employ an informal style to address major aspects of plant development and biotechnology. The book reviews how the field emerged from its early theoretical roots and provides a snapshot of the field's controversial present, describing current progress in genetically engineered plants. Methods are detailed for preparing media, creating solutions and dilutions, performing sterile culture work, and quantifying responses of tissue culture in research. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)