Introduction: Development, Global Governance, and Sexual Subjectivities Amy Lind Part 1: Querying/Queering Development: Theories, Representations, Strategies 1. Why the Development Industry Should Get Over its Obsession with Bad Sex and Start to Think about Pleasure Susie Jolly 2. Transgendering Development: Reframing Hijras and Development Jyoti Puri 3. Querying Feminist Economics’ Straight Path to Development: Household Models Reconsidered Suzanne Bergeron Part 2: Negotiating Heteronormativity in Development Institutions 4. The World Bank’s GLOBE: Queers in/Queering Development Andil Gosine 5. NGOs as Erotic Sites Ara Wilson 6. Promoting Exports, Restructuring Love: How the World Bank Manages Policy Tensions through Heteronormativity in the Flower Industry Kate Bedford 7. ’Headless Families’ and ‘Detoured Men’: Off the Straight Path of Modern Development in Bolivia Susan Paulson Part 3: 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
Biography
Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and faculty affiliate of the Department of Sociology and the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati, USA.
'This book will be a rich and insightful tool for a wide range of development-related practitioners, students, and activists.' -Lucille C. Atkin, Gender & Development, Vol. 19, 1, March 2011
