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.

Table of Contents

Introduction-Chima J. Korieh and Elizabeth Onogwu
Part I: Marriage, Mediated Representations of Sexuality and Spirituality
1.Desiring Justice Beyond Human Rights: Biopower and Sexual Citizenship-Mary Bunch
2.Sexual Citizenship and Rights: Tracing Discontinuities in the Theory and Praxis of Sexual Rights-Erick Monterrosas
3.Beyond Human Rights: Sexuality and Violence in the Liberal Order-Luke Amadi
4.What's Wrong with Marriage Rights? -Paul Martorelli
5.Engaging Critical Gender Theory in Catholic Social Thought: An Emerging Conversation – Rachel Bruns
6.Human Rights and Sexuality: Spiritual and Natural Companion - Hannah Chukwu
7.Gender Hysteria: The Other Effect of Public Policy in Armenia – Tamar Shirinian
8.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
9.Prostitution, Gendered Urbanism, and Contested Sexuality Rights in Nigeria - Obinna Innocent Ihunna
10.Policing Transactional

Product details

Published 12 Nov 2019
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 268
ISBN 9781683932338
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions 232 x 159 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Chima J. Korieh

Anthology Editor

Elizabeth O. Onogwu

Contributor

Luke A. Amadi

Contributor

Krista Benson

Contributor

Rachel Bruns

Contributor

Mary Bunch

Contributor

Hannah Chukwu

Contributor

Chima J. Korieh

Contributor

Paul Martorelli

Contributor

Sara Riva

Contributor

Tamar Shirinian

Contributor

Manfa Sanogo

Contributor

Toby Strout

Contributor

Eilís Ward

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