Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky, Richard Parker

Sexuality, Health and Human Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Surveys how changes taking place in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. This book will be of interest to professionals, advocates and policy researchers and is suitable for courses covering areas such as gender studies, human sexuality, public health and social policy.

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Sexuality, Health and Human Rights surveys the rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in the social, cultural, political and economic domains and their impact on sexuality, health and human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415351171
• ISBN-10: 0415351170
• Artikelnr.: 25684587

Autorenporträt

Sonia Corrêa coordinates Sexuality Policy Watch at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), Brazil. Rosalind Petchesky is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA. Richard Parker is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Global 'Sex' Wars 1. Landscaping Sexualities 2. The
Real Politics of 'Sex' 3. The Sad 'Return of the Religious' Part II:
Epistemological Challenges and Research Agendas 4. The Modernization of
'Sex' and the Birth of Sexual Science 5. The Social Construction of Sexual
Life 6. After AIDS Part III: The Promises and Limits of Sexual Rights 7. On
the Indispensability and Insufficiency of Human Rights 8. Inventing and
Contesting Sexual Rights within the UN 9. Transnational Debates: Sexuality,
Power, and New Subjectivities 10. At the Outer Limits of Human Rights:
Voids in the Liberal Paradigm Postscript: Dreaming and Dancing - The
'Beyond' beyond Sexual Rights