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Gilbert Herdt, Ph.D.
Gilbert Herdt, Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist, is Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, the only department of its kind in the world dedicated to teaching undergraduate and graduate students in the field of sexuality. Professor Herdt is also Director of the National Sexuality Resource Center, a Ford Foundation funded project. Dr. Herdt has written about sexual cultures, sexual literacy, and sexual and gender identity development cross-culturally and in the United States. In the U.S. Dr. Herdt has studied adolescents and their families, the emergence of HIV and gay culture, and the role that social policy plays in people's sexual health. A Fulbright, NIMH, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Herdt has taught at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Washington. His publications include nearly 30 single and edited books, and more than 100 scientific papers.

	21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education and Rights A new "digital sexual revolution" is shaping the way we understand, experience, and live sexuality in the twenty-first century. The Internet, in particular, enables individuals and groups to learn about sexuality, experience their sexuality in new ways, create identities and sexual communities, and advocate for sexual rights and social justice. This lively and comprehensive collection is packed with cutting-edge research and advocacy materials in sexuality studies.
	Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture and history. They propose a new role for the study of alternative sex and gender systems in cultural science, as a means of critiquing thinking that privileges standard male/female gender distinctions and rejects the natural basis of other forms of sexuality.
	Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives (International Studies in Demography) This volume brings together quantitative and qualitative case studies by an international panel of anthropologists, demographers, and sociologists aimed at better understanding the impact of human movement and mobility on sexual change and fertility. It is the first demographic anthropological study of what happens to sexual behaviour and the rules of risk-taking in sexual encounters when people migrate from countryside to city, from one city to another, or from one country to another culture. It represents a milestone in the study of cross-cultural sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases.
	Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. Rather than emphasizing sexuality as an individual trait, the essays view it as a social phenomenon, focusing in particular on cultural meaning and real-world processes of inequality such as racism and homophobia.