Sexuality, health and human rights /

CorrĂȘa, Sonia.

Sexuality, health and human rights / Sonia CorrĂȘa, Rosalind Petchesky and Richard Parker. - viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm. - Sexuality, culture and health series . - Sexuality, culture and health series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-300) 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.

0415351170 9780415351171 0415351189 9780415351188

2008002205


Sex--Social aspects
Sex--Political aspects
Sex--Health aspects
Human rights.

HQ23 / .C6473 2008

306.7

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