Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy

Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Elizabeth O. Onogwu - Contributions by Luke Amadi; Krista Benson; Rachel Bruns; Mary Bunch; Hannah Chukwu; Obinna Innocent Ihunna; Chima J. Korieh; Stepanka Korytova; Paul Martorelli; Erick Monterrosas; Elizabeth O. Onogwu; Sara Riva; Tamar Shirinian; Manfa Sanogo; Toby Strout and Eilís Ward

Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings. It examines how knowledge is formed and experienced at the intersections of culture, sexuality, race, and other axes of identity. This volume engages an array of questions including how public policy shapes the conceptualization of sexuality and rights and by extension the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary society across the world. By evaluating how public discourse is employed to re-inscribe differences of gender, sexuality, and rights of citizens, this book provides a comparative analysis of how these processes and dynamics resemble each other or differ cross-culturally. This book demonstrates that in the realm of sexualities, approached from the ideal of human rights as a predominantly Western notion is increasingly challenged by diverse views and new interpretations of human rights in non-Western societies such as Africa and the Middle East.

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 268 • Trim: 6 x 8¾

978-1-68393-233-8 • Hardback • November 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-68393-235-2 • Paperback • June 2021 • $39.99 • (£31.00)

978-1-68393-234-5 • eBook • November 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies, Political Science / Human Rights, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / LGBT Studies / General

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Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings. It examines how knowledge is formed and experienced at the intersections of culture, sexuality, race, and other axes of identity. This volume engages an array of questions including how public policy shapes the conceptualization of sexuality and rights and by extension the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary society across the world. By evaluating how public discourse is employed to re-inscribe differences of gender, sexuality, and rights of citizens, this book provides a comparative analysis of how these processes and dynamics resemble each other or differ cross-culturally. This book demonstrates that in the realm of sexualities, approached from the ideal of human rights as a predominantly Western notion is increasingly challenged by diverse views and new interpretations of human rights in non-Western societies such as Africa and the Middle East.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 268 • Trim: 6 x 8¾

978-1-68393-233-8 • Hardback • November 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-68393-235-2 • Paperback • June 2021 • $39.99 • (£31.00)

978-1-68393-234-5 • eBook • November 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies, Political Science / Human Rights, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / LGBT Studies / General

Author

Chima J. Korieh is professor of African history and gender studies, and Director of Africana Studies at Marquette University, Milwaukee.

Elizabeth O. Onogwu teaches African literature at the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Table of Contents

Introduction-Chima J. Korieh and Elizabeth Onogwu

Part I: Marriage, Mediated Representations of Sexuality and Spirituality
1. Desiring Justice Beyond Human Rights: Biopower and Sexual Citizenship-Mary Bunch
2. Sexual Citizenship and Rights: Tracing Discontinuities in the Theory and Praxis of Sexual Rights—Erick Monterrosas
3. Beyond Human Rights: Sexuality and Violence in the Liberal Order—Luke Amadi
4. What’s Wrong with Marriage Rights? —Paul Martorelli
5. Engaging Critical Gender Theory in Catholic Social Thought: An Emerging Conversation – Rachel Bruns
6. Human Rights and Sexuality: Spiritual and Natural Companion - Hannah Chukwu
7. Gender Hysteria: The Other Effect of Public Policy in Armenia – Tamar Shirinian
8. Humor and Sexual Orientation: The Anti-Homosexual Politics of La Cage Aux Folles and Gazon Maudit—Manfa Sanogo
Part II: Gender, Prostitution, and Sexual Violence
1. Prostitution, Gendered Urbanism, and Contested Sexuality Rights in Nigeria - Obinna Innocent Ihunna
2. Policing Transactional Sex in Ireland: legal change, neo-abolitionism and the neo-liberal state—Eilís Ward
3. Exploring Alternative Proposals for Prostitution Laws through an Analysis of the Swedish and Dutch Models – Sara Riva
4. Victims of Sex Trafficking: Are Domestic Violence Victim Services Organizations Appropriate? –Stepanka Korytova and Toby Strout
5. “They Say I’m Gonna Be Their Little Girl”: The Co-Creation of the Dangerous Queer and the Racialized Rapeable Subject in Beyond Scared Straight - Krista Benson
Selected Bibliography

Index

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