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Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

by: Lind; Amy

Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

by: Lind; Amy

ISBN 13:
9780415776073
ISBN 10:
0415776074
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 02/08/2010
Publisher: Routledge

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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.

Contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction: development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities	p. 1
Querying/queering development: theories, representations, strategies	p. 21
Why the development industry should get over its obsession with bad sex and start to think about pleasure	p. 23
Transgendering development: reframing hijras and development	p. 39
Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: household models reconsidered	p. 54
Negotiating heteronormativity in development institutions	p. 65
The World Bank's GLOBE: queers in/queering development	p. 67
NGOs as erotic sites	p. 86
Promoting exports, restructuring love: the World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry	p. 99
"Headless families" and "detoured men": off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia	p. 113
Resisting global hegemonies, struggling for sexual rights and gender justice	p. 129
Spelling it out: from alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice	p. 131
Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: supporting gender transgression as a development strategy	p. 145
Behind the mask: developing LGBTI visibility in Africa	p. 155
Queer Dominican moves: in the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 182
Index	p. 207
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Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

9780415776073

0415776074

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