Sexuality, health and human rights /

Corrêa, Sonia.

Sexuality, health and human rights / Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky and Richard Parker. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - viii, 312 p. ; 24 cm. - Sexuality, culture and health series . - Sexuality, culture and health series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-300) and index.

Introduction -- Global 'sex' wars -- Landscaping sexualities -- The real politics of 'sex' -- The sad 'return of the religious' -- Epistemological challenges and research agendas -- The modernization of 'sex' and the birth of sexual science -- The social construction of sexual life -- After AIDS -- The promises and limits of sexual rights -- On the indispensability and insufficiency of human rights -- Inventing and contesting sexual rights within the UN -- Transnational debates : sexuality, power, and new subjectivities -- At the outer limits of human rights : voids in the liberal paradigm -- Postscript : dreaming and dancing : beyond sexual rights.

9780415351171 (hbk.) 9780415351188 (pbk.) 9780203894170 (ebk.)

2008002205

101483159 DNLM


Sexuality.
Human Rights.
Sex--Social aspects.
Sex--Political aspects.
Sex--Health aspects.
Human rights.
Seksualiteit.
Mensenrechten.

HQ23 / .C6473 2008

306.7

2008 L-182 HQ 23 / C824s 2008

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