Development with a Body Sexuality, Human Rights and Development

by Cornwall, Andrea; Corrêa, Sonia; Jolly, Susie

• ISBN13: 9781842778913
• ISBN10: 1842778919
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offers inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaigns that emphasize the positive dimensions of sexuality. It brings together reflections and experiences of researchers, activists and practitioners from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and Zambia. From political discourse on sex and masculinity to sex work and trafficking, from HIV and sexuality to struggles for legal reform and citizenship, the authors explore the gains of creating stronger linkages between sexuality, human rights and development.

Author Biography

Andrea Cornwall is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.



Sonia Corrêa is Research associate at ABIA - Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS, DAWN Coordinator for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights research and analysis and Co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch.



Susie Jolly is Gender Communications Officer at BRIDGE, at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
Development with a body: making the connections between sexuality, human rights and development	p. 1
Development's encounter with sexuality: essentialism and beyond	p. 22
Sexual rights/human rights
Sexual rights are human rights	p. 45
Sex work, trafficking and HIV: how development is compromising sex workers' human rights	p. 54
The language of rights	p. 67
Children's sexual rights in an era of HIV/AIDS	p. 77
The rights of man	p. 86
Human rights interrupted: an illustration from India	p. 93
Gender and sex orders
Discrimination against lesbians in the workplace	p. 107
Ruling masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa	p. 121
Gender, identity and travesti rights in Peru	p. 136
Small powers, little choice: reproductive and sexual rights in slums in Bangladesh	p. 146
Social and political inclusion of sex workers as a preventive measure against trafficking: Serbian experiences	p. 161
Changing mindsets
Confronting our prejudices: women's movement experiences in Bangladesh	p. 181
Sexuality education as a human right: lessons from Nigeria	p. 187
Terms of contact and touching change: investigating pleasure in an HIV epidemic	p. 199
A democracy of sexuality: linkages and strategies for sexual rights, participation and development	p. 210
Integrating sexuality into gender and human rights frameworks: a case study from Turkey	p. 225
About the authors	p. 243
Index	p. 249
Figures
Web of poverty's disadvantages, with examples related to sexuality	p. 29
Drawing by Christopher B. Donnan (Moche Archive, UCLA) from the original Moche culture huaco (pottery)	p. 139
Boxes
Activism Against Violence Against Women	p. 70
Prayas	p. 71
Antakshiri	p. 72
Sovereignty and Citizenship	p. 73
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