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Sexuality, health and human rights / Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky and Richard Parker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Sexuality, culture and health seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.Description: viii, 312 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415351171 (hbk.)
  • 9780415351188 (pbk.)
  • 9780203894170 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ23 .C6473 2008
NLM classification:
  • 2008 L-182
  • HQ 23
Other classification:
  • 71.25
Contents:
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.
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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.

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