Interviews

Interviews

Cultural analysis of reproduction

Influencing the concepts of women about menstruation, menopause, pregnancy and birth was the main purpose that made north-American anthropologist Emily Martin (New York University) write The woman in the body, a book that, after two decades, has finally been translated into Portuguese.

Interviews

The social dimension of sexuality

Interview with American sociologist John Gagnon, who developed the social study of sexuality and the theory of the “sexual scripts” in the 1960’s. Gagnon recently presented, in Brazil, An interpretation of desire (CLAM/Editora Garamond), his first book to be translated into Portuguese.