Development, sexual rights and global governance / edited by Amy Lind.
"This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people's sexua...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Series: | RIPE series in global political economy ;
29. |
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| Summary: | "This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people's sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry's persistent insistence on viewing sexuality as basically outside the realm of economic modernization and anti-poverty programs, this volume brings to the fore heterosexual bias within macroeconomic and human rights development frameworks. The work fills an important gap in understanding how people's intimate lives are governed through heteronormative policies which typically assume that the family is based on blood or property ties rather than on alternative forms of kinship. By placing heteronormativity at the center of analysis, this anthology thus provides a much-needed discussion about the development industry's role in pathologizing sexual deviance yet also, more recently, in helping make visible a sexual rights agenda."--- Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (xv, 211 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135244606 113524460X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |