GENDER SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTIC

ISBN-13: 9781138342965 / Twarda / 2023

Opis

Bringing together young scholars from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions. This book will interest social scientists and activists, development scholars and practitioners across fields.

Spis treści

1. Mapping the intersections of gender, sexuality, ‘race’ and social justice in development and policy discourses PART I Gender, sexual rights and non-normative gender expressions and sexualities 2. Understanding incarceration and spousal/partner relationships: an exploration of female imprisonment and its effects on family relations in Zimbabwe 3. Colombian women and US servicemen: encounters and experiences from Melgar 4. Salir adelante: the intersections of teenage pregnancy as experienced in the city of Monterrey, Mexico PART II Unpacking development and policy interventions in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights 5. Women’s sexual rights and empowerment beyond the liberal paradigm: understanding sexuality and power relations from the life experiences of young women 6. Examining power/knowledge in the contestations of medical male circumcision in Zimbabwe 7. Silences and misrepresentations in the international child marriage discourse: a double reading of Girls Not Brides 8. Bending the private-public gender norms: schooling experiences of young mothers from low-income households in Kenya 9. Politics of identities: problematics of categories, labels and languages in LGBTQI+ movement in Bangladesh PART III Gender, sexuality and ‘race’: migration and the politics of identity and othering 10. Narratives of being and belonging from the perspectives of young Dutch-Muslims in the Netherlands 11. Men, migration and masculinities: an intersectional analysis of Bangladeshi migrant men in The Hague, the Netherlands 12. Migration, sex work and exploitative labor conditions: experiences of Nigerian women in the sex industry in Turin, Italy, and counter-trafficking measures

O autorze

Silke Heumann is Sociologist and Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a BA from the Central American University (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua. Her teaching and research interests are gender, sexual politics and social justice; discourse analysis and social movements.

Camilo Antillón Najlis has master’s degrees in sociology and in cultural studies and experience in education, research and programmes in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, sexual and reproductive health and rights, violence and urban cultural studies. He has worked with grass-roots, national and international organizations in Nicaragua and the Netherlands and collaborated with other Central American, East African and West African organizations. He has authored and edited several published works, including the Anthology of Contemporary Nicaraguan Critical Thinking (CLACSO 2016), a chapter in the collective volume Bodies in Resistance: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), and several articles and research reports. Camilo is currently affiliated with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.