Development, sexual rights and global governance

Development, sexual rights and global governance [electronic resource] / edited by Amy Lind.

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"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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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Lind, Amy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:RIPE series in global political economy.
Subjects:
Gay rights > Economic aspects.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Economic development > Political aspects.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Sexual rights > Economic aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities / Amy Lind
  • Part I. Querying/Queering Development: Theories, Representations, Strategies
  • 1. Why the development industry should get over its obsession wtih bad sex and start to think about pleasure / Susie Jolly
  • 2. Transgender development: reframing hijras and development / Jyoti Puri
  • 3. Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: household models reconsidered / Suzanne Bergeron
  • Part II. Negotiating Heteronormativity in Development Institutions
  • 4. World Bank's GLOBE: queers in/queering development / Andil Gosine
  • 5. NGOs as erotic sites / Ara Wilson
  • 6. Promoting exports, restructuring love: the World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry / Kate Bedford
  • 7. "Headless families" and "detoured men": off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia / Susan Paulson
  • Part III. Resisting Global Hegemonies, Struggling for Sexual Rights and Gender Justice
  • 8. Spelling it out: from alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice / Sangeeta Budhiraja, Susana T. Fried and Alexandra Teixeira
  • 9. Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: supporting gender transgression as a development strategy / Petra Doan
  • 10. Behind the mask: developing LGBTI visibility in Africa / Ashley Currier
  • 11. Queer Dominican moves: in the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses / Maja Horn.

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