Sexuality, health and human rights /
Sonia Corrêa, 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.