ABSTRACT
Globalization is not gender-neutral. This chapter outlines some global and transnational gender and sexual scenarios. By scenarios I mean possible alternative, and indeed most likely contradictory, trajectories of changing gendered and sexual social relations at the global level. While my emphasis here is on gender, sexuality, and thus also sexualized violence, these necessarily intersect with and are formed simultaneously with and through other social divisions, such as age, class, ethnicity and racialization. More generally, I focus here on gender and sexualities, as themselves deeply politicaleconomic-cultural phenomena, rather than as located with, for example, ‘political economies’ or ‘cultural contexts’. In this sense, I am antagonistic to both those approaches that place gender and sexualitieswithin political economy and to those approaches that fail to recognize their political-economic character.1 The former is perhaps more usual in discussing ‘gender’; the latter perhaps more common in discussing ‘sexuality’. To pursue this line of inquiry involves considering shifts from intersectionalities towards transsectionalities: the ‘transformulation’ of social, and in this context gender and sexual categories rather than just their mutual constitution and interrelations (Hearn 2008d).
