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Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

Lind, Amy

Hardcover

Series: Ripe Global Political Economy

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsSexuality

ISBN10: 0415776074
ISBN13: 9780415776073
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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