Sexual Meanings : The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2015) When a young knight

When a young knight

Some people call it warmth

‘This is my manifesto for morning

festive holiday meals

Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches

Sexual Meanings : The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2015) When a young knightThis 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies of male self