ABSTRACT
In previous chapters we have explored some recent criticisms of a rightsbased framework, reviewed the development and substance of the concept of sexual rights, and argued for the viability of human rights and sexual rights approaches to health and social justice, despite their many deficiencies. In this concluding chapter we want to examine some deeper and perhaps intractable challenges to human rights, where its liberal trappings create exclusions or conceptual blind spots, including the very limitations of the category of the human. These dilemmas become all the more troubling in this time of intense militarization and ethnic and imperial conflict.
