2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights
Thoroughly updated with over 30 newly written chapters, this edition of the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of the field.
Social researchers and their allies have worked hard in past decades to find new ways of understanding sexuality in a rapidly changing world. Growing attention is now given to the way sexuality intersects with other structures such as gender, age, ethnicity/race and disability, and increasing value is seen in a positive approach focused on ethics, pleasure, mutuality and reciprocity. This Handbook explores:
- theory, politics and early development of sexuality studies
- ways in which language, discourse and identification have become central to research on sex, sexuality and gender
- key issues across the broad media and digital ecology, demonstrating the centrality of representation, communication and digital technologies to sexual and gender practices
- research focusing on the body and its sexual pleasures
- work on forms of inequality, violence and abuse that are linked to sex, gender and sexuality
The Handbook is an essential reference for researchers and educators working in the fields of sexuality studies, gender studies, sexual health and human rights, and offers key reading for mid-level and advanced students.
1 - Sexuality, gender, health and rights: An introduction
Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Carmen H. Logie, Christy E. Newman and Richard Parker
Part I Pioneering beginnings
2 - The importance of being historical: Understanding the making of sexualities
Jeffrey Weeks
3 - ‘Sex involves something you are, not just something you do’: Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health
Ellen S. More
4 - Anthropological foundations of sexuality, health and rights: 1920s-2020s
Michelle Marzullo and Gilbert Herdt
5 - Alfred C. Kinsey’s legacy and the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University
Julia R. Heiman
6 - Sexuality and the turn to citizenship
Diane Richardson
7 - Making a sociology of gender and sexuality
Raewyn Connell
Part II Diversity in practice – enacting, gender, sex and sexuality
8 - Two(Spirit)-Eyed Seeing: Honouring gender and sexual diversity for those Indigenous to Turtle Island
Harlan Pruden, Milo Ira and Travis Salway
9 - Becoming hijra in Dhaka: Discourse, pleasure and identification
Adnan Hossain
10 - The health and human rights of people with intersex variations
Morgan Carpenter
11 - Living under the shadow of the law: Sexual citizenship and belonging in Singapore and Australia
Sujith Kumar Prankumar, Stephen Robert Watson and P. Arun Kumar
12 - Gender and sexuality identities in social media and everyday life: The expansion and redefinition of non-binary gender and bisexuality
Rob Cover and Christy E. Newman
13 - An unhappy marriage? Sex segregation and inclusion debates in women’s sport
Madeleine Pape
14 - ‘Cripping’ intellectual disability and sexuality in media representations: Conundrums and possibilities
Ann Fudge Schormans, Alan Santinele Martino and Eleni Moumos
15 - Ritual, modernity and well-being: Queer spirit mediums and ritual healing in mainland Southeast Asia
Peter A. Jackson
Part III Communicating gender, sex and sexuality
16 - Beliefs about sexuality and gender in identity discourses online
Zach C. Schudson
17 - Automating vulnerability: Algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning for gender and sexual minorities
Páraic Kerrigan and Marguerite Barry
18 - Digital intimacy in China
Man Yin Chung and Denise Tse-Shang Tang
19 - Queer women and digital platforms: Identity modulation for digital sexual citizenship, and beyond?
Stefanie Duguay
20 - Playing with roles and representations: Challenging the stability of gender, sex and sexuality in video games
Marc A. Ouellette
21 - Erotic representations of gender diversity: A computer-assisted linguistic analysis of online erotica
Alon Lischinsky and Kat Gupta
22 - Express yourself: Fashion, freedom and sexual politics in the 21st century
Pardis Mahdavi
23 - Homosexuality and normality: The reception of gay male representations on film and television
Alexander Dhoest
Part IV The choreography of sex
24 - Ukuchindila Nabwinga: Bemba women, sexual dance and agency
Mutale Mulenga Kaunda
25 - Sex in motion: Some sexual scenes in Brazil
Veriano Terto Jr and Fernando Seffner
26 - BDSM, intercorporeality and the feeling body
Charlotta Carlström
27 - Flirting, erotic interactions and sexual choreography among urban youth: Hip-Hop in New York City
Miguel Muñoz-Laboy and Richard Parker
28 - Ecosexuality: Art practices for queering the Earth, healing and recovering
Ewelina Jarosz
29 - Spaces to be and flourish: Dance as livelihood, status and belonging among kothis in India
Anna Morcom
30 - The political economy of pleasure
Barbara G. Brents, Victoria McMahan, Mary Underwood Hood, Rachel Howard, Foster Kamanga, Drue Belliveau Sahuc, Roen Sagun and Antonio Ball
Part V The darker side(s) of sex
31 - Intimate partner violence: Bringing about change through successful interventions
Erin Stern, Andrew Gibbs, Samantha Willan, Henri Myrttinen and Rachel Jewkes
32 - Masculinity crisis? The nature and origins of sexual violence and corrective rape in South Africa
Kammila Naidoo, Morolake Josephine Adeagbo and Oluwatobi Joseph Alabi
33 - Becoming teachable, staying in community: Engaged research on incest in Mexico, before and after COVID-19
Gloria González-López
34 - ‘I’d give him a blow job just to get out of there’: Sexual citizenship and the social production of campus sexual assault
Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan
35 - Sexual violence in South African men’s prisons: Causes, consequences and promising practices
Sasha Gear
Part VI Sexual well-being and health
36 - From sexology to sexual health and rights
Eli Coleman and Jessie V. Ford
37 - ‘Safe sex ain't for sissies!’ (with apologies to Bette Davis)
Gary W. Dowsett
38 - Sexual health beyond the buzzword: The turn to social justice
Steven Epstein
39 - Innovation in HIV prevention technologies: The currents and eddies of progress within and across contexts
Sarah Bernays and Joni Lariat
40 - Sex, drugs and biomedical prevention: Rethinking sexual health through PrEP research in Peru and HPV vaccine roll-out in Mexico
César Torres-Cruz and Amaya Pérez-Brumer
41 - Achieving trans pregnancy and parenthood: The impacts of cisnormativity on trans people’s reproductive autonomy
Alex Ker
42 - Poverty and erotic equity
Jenny A. Higgins and Sara I. McClelland
Part VII Sexual rights and erotic justice
43 - Sexual rights: Ever-contested, but never more important
Sofia Gruskin and Laura Ferguson
44 - Health and human rights inequities impacting sex workers globally
Jennie Pearson, Ruth Morgan Thomas and Shira M. Goldenberg
45 - Sex tech in an age of surveillance capitalism: Design, data and governance
Zahra Stardust
46 - Justice through the erotic: Puta politics, knowledge and feminism as guides for how to move beyond binaries and destabilise contradictions
Laura Rebecca Murray
47 - Good sex liberates: Why sexual rights and erotic justice should get into bed with pleasure
Anne Philpott and Arushi Singh
48 - Dr Frankenstein’s hydra: Contours, meanings and effects of anti-gender politics
Sonia Corrêa, David Paternotte and Claire House
Biography
Peter Aggleton has a background in the social sciences as applied to well-being, education and health. He holds senior professorial positions at a number of universities including The Australian National University in Canberra, UNSW Sydney, and UCL in London.
Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Carmen H. Logie is Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and a professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.
Christy E. Newman is a professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney.
Richard Parker is Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University in New York, as well as Director of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), Co-Chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Public Health.
