Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure

Name: Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure
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ISBN: 9781780325712

ISBN-10: 1780325711

ISBN-13: 9781780325712

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall, Kate Hawkins

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This pioneering collection explores the ways in which women's sexual desires are experienced by them and how this experience effects women's empowerment. It shows that an exploration of pleasure can have a hugely positive impact for women at the personal, social and political levels. Traditional gender and development discourses tend to engage with sexuality in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over emphasizing these negative aspects has subsumed women's sexualities under violence, danger and fear. The media, the pharmaceutical market, pornography and the market more broadly on the other hand celebrate the…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 6/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Abbreviations


Acknowledgements


Preface



Introduction Women, Sexuality, and the Political Power of Pleasure




Thinking with Pleasure: Danger, Sexuality and Agency




Challenging the Pleasure versus Danger Binary: Reflections on Sexuality Workshops with Rural Women's Rights Activists in North India




Sexual Pleasure as a Woman's Human Right: Experiences from a Human Rights Training Programme for Women in Turkey




Better Sex and More Equal Relationships: Couple Training in Nigeria




Building a Movement for Sexual Rights and Pleasure




Enabling Disabled People to Have and Enjoy the Kind of Sexuality They Want




Desires Denied: Sexual Pleasure in the Context of HIV




Sex is a Gift from God: Paralysis and Potential in Sex Education in Malawi




Why We Need to Think about Sexuality and Sexual Well-Being: Addressing Sexual Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa




Could Watching Porn Increase Our Expectations of (Safe) Pleasure? An Exploration of Some Promising Harm-Reduction Practices




Challenging Clitoraid




How Was It for You? Pleasure and Performance in Sex Work




Eroticism, Sensuality and 'Women's Secrets' among the Baganda




Laughter, the Subversive Body Organ



About the Contributors


Index