Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights

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.