ABSTRACT
This book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions. Bringing together young scholars from Latin America, Africa and Asia, the book challenges dominant assumptions on sexuality in development discourse, policy and practice and proposes alternative approaches.
Reflecting on both the ‘global north’ and the ‘global south’, this book investigates key social justice issues, from teenage pregnancy, child marriage discourses, sexual empowerment, to sexual diversity, female imprisonment and sexuality, militarism and sexuality, anti-trafficking policies and processes of racialization and othering in the context of migration. Overall, the book challenges binary constructs and argues for an intersectional perspective on gender and sexual diversity as a problem of structural inequality that interacts with other systems of inequality, based on race, age, class and geopolitics.
This book will be of interest to social scientists and activists, as well as development scholars and practitioners engaging with questions of gender, sexuality and social justice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|59 pages
Gender, sexual rights and non-normative gender expressions and sexualities
chapter 2|20 pages
Understanding incarceration and spousal/partner relationships
chapter 4|19 pages
Salir adelante
part II|104 pages
Unpacking development and policy interventions in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights
chapter 5|20 pages
Women's sexual rights and empowerment beyond the liberal paradigm
chapter 7|20 pages
Silences and misrepresentations in the international child marriage discourse
chapter 8|19 pages
Bending the private-public gender norms
chapter 9|22 pages
Politics of identities
part III|61 pages
Gender, sexuality and ‘race'