Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective: an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo
Private lives and public identities: an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore
The women who refuse to be exchanged: nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow
The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko
The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel
Virgins in the spirit: the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins
Staying clean: notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke
Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami
Sexual fluids, emotions, morality: notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal
Ritualizing celibacy: the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar
Like a natural woman: celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester
Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. de Munck
Celibacy in American prisons: legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw
A swallow in winter: a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate.