Full Description
Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings. It examines how knowledge is formed and experienced at the intersections of culture, sexuality, race, and other axes of identity. This volume engages an array of questions including how public policy shapes the conceptualization of sexuality and rights and by extension the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary society across the world. By evaluating how public discourse is employed to re-inscribe differences of gender, sexuality, and rights of citizens, this book provides a comparative analysis of how these processes and dynamics resemble each other or differ cross-culturally. This book demonstrates that in the realm of sexualities, approached from the ideal of human rights as a predominantly Western notion is increasingly challenged by diverse views and new interpretations of human rights in non-Western societies such as Africa and the Middle East.
Contents
Introduction-Chima J. Korieh and Elizabeth Onogwu
Part I: Marriage, Mediated Representations of Sexuality and Spirituality
Desiring Justice Beyond Human Rights: Biopower and Sexual Citizenship-Mary Bunch
Sexual Citizenship and Rights: Tracing Discontinuities in the Theory and Praxis of Sexual Rights—Erick Monterrosas
Beyond Human Rights: Sexuality and Violence in the Liberal Order—Luke Amadi
What's Wrong with Marriage Rights? —Paul Martorelli
Engaging Critical Gender Theory in Catholic Social Thought: An Emerging Conversation - Rachel Bruns
Human Rights and Sexuality: Spiritual and Natural Companion - Hannah Chukwu
Gender Hysteria: The Other Effect of Public Policy in Armenia - Tamar Shirinian
Humor and Sexual Orientation: The Anti-Homosexual Politics of La Cage Aux Folles and Gazon Maudit—Manfa Sanogo
Part II: Gender, Prostitution, and Sexual Violence
Prostitution, Gendered Urbanism, and Contested Sexuality Rights in Nigeria - Obinna Innocent Ihunna
Policing Transactional Sex in Ireland: legal change, neo-abolitionism and the neo-liberal state—Eilís Ward
Exploring Alternative Proposals for Prostitution Laws through an Analysis of the Swedish and Dutch Models - Sara Riva
Victims of Sex Trafficking: Are Domestic Violence Victim Services Organizations Appropriate? -Stepanka Korytova and Toby Strout
"They Say I'm Gonna Be Their Little Girl": The Co-Creation of the Dangerous Queer and the Racialized Rapeable Subject in Beyond Scared Straight - Krista Benson
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editors
