Development with a Body Sexuality, Human Rights and Development

Name: Development with a Body Sexuality, Human Rights and Development
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ISBN: 9781842778913

ISBN-10: 1842778919

ISBN-13: 9781842778913

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Correa, Susie Jolly

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Sex and sexuality have always had a place at the heart of the development agenda - from concerns regarding population and environment, to practices in education and efforts for protecting reproductive health and rights. Yet this agenda has largely focused on negative dimensions of sexuality - disease, risk, violation - rather than positive aspects, including rights to sexual fulfilment, well-being and pleasure. The shift towards a rights-based approach to development has brought the human rights dimensions of sexuality into clearer view, and consequently the need to address discriminatory laws and violations of the human rights of those whose sexual identity and practices diverge from…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Abbreviations


Acknowledgements


Foreword




Development with a body: making the connections between sexuality, human rights and development




Development's encounter with sexuality: essentialism and beyond




Sexual rights/human rights



Sexual rights are human rights




Sex work, trafficking and HIV: how development is compromising sex workers' human rights




The language of rights




Children's sexual rights in an era of HIV/AIDS




The rights of man




Human rights interrupted: an illustration from India




Gender and sex orders



Discrimination against lesbians in the workplace




Ruling masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa




Gender, identity and travesti rights in Peru




Small powers, little choice: reproductive and sexual rights in slums in Bangladesh




Social and political inclusion of sex workers as a preventive measure against trafficking: Serbian experiences




Changing mindsets



Confronting our prejudices: women's movement experiences in Bangladesh




Sexuality education as a human right: lessons from Nigeria




Terms of contact and touching change: investigating pleasure in an HIV epidemic




A democracy of sexuality: linkages and strategies for sexual rights, participation and development




Integrating sexuality into gender and human rights frameworks: a case study from Turkey



About the authors


Index


Figures



Web of poverty's disadvantages, with examples related to sexuality



Drawing by Christopher B. Donnan (Moche Archive, UCLA) from the original Moche culture huaco (pottery)


Boxes



Activism Against Violence Against Women



Prayas



Antakshiri



Sovereignty and Citizenship