Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

by Lind; Amy

• ISBN13: 9780415776073
• ISBN10: 0415776074
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance.

Author Biography

Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and faculty affiliate of the Department of Sociology and the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction: development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities	p. 1
Querying/queering development: theories, representations, strategies	p. 21
Why the development industry should get over its obsession with bad sex and start to think about pleasure	p. 23
Transgendering development: reframing hijras and development	p. 39
Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: household models reconsidered	p. 54
Negotiating heteronormativity in development institutions	p. 65
The World Bank's GLOBE: queers in/queering development	p. 67
NGOs as erotic sites	p. 86
Promoting exports, restructuring love: the World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry	p. 99
"Headless families" and "detoured men": off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia	p. 113
Resisting global hegemonies, struggling for sexual rights and gender justice	p. 129
Spelling it out: from alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice	p. 131
Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: supporting gender transgression as a development strategy	p. 145
Behind the mask: developing LGBTI visibility in Africa	p. 155
Queer Dominican moves: in the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 182
Index	p. 207
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