Author: Geetanjali Misra
Radhika Chandiramani/Eminent Contributors
Editor(s): Geetanjali Misra / Radhika Chandiramani
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 313
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-7829-554-7
Description
This volume analyzes and documents the groundbreaking work done by many organizations to bring issues of sexuality and rights to public attention, to expand the freedoms of women and sexual minorities and to highlight the unfair distinctions faced by those not conforming to gender and sexual norms across a range of expressions, behaviours and identities in Asia.
This volume covers eight countries in South and Southeast Asia. The contributors address issues of power and social hierarchies by using the principles of justice, equality, non-discrimination, and access to rights and services. They cover diverse issues like sexual rights, sexuality education, sexual health services, transsexuals and other sexual minorities, HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as sex work and the representation of sexuality in popular culture. The contributors argue that neither gender nor sexuality can be addressed in isolation from human rights and demonstrate how linking sexuality and gender with human rights has an impact on people`s lives across intersecting issues and contexts.
Moving beyond theoretical discussions of sexuality, gender and rights, this volume looks at what these ideas mean in practice and offers examples of the diversity of effective approaches that can be adopted in varied settings. Moreover, it illustrates how sexuality ties in with wider issues—health, personal relationships, economic well-being, equitable access to public services, and the freedom to think, speak and associate without fear of discrimination.
Contents
Introduction GEETANJALI MISRA and RADHIKA CHANDIRAMANI
Looking in Horror and Fascination: Sex, Violence and Spectatorship in India SHOHINI GHOSH
The Stage, the Body: The Sites for Women's Dissent—A Case of Engendering the Praxis of Theatre in the Philippines LEA LASTRILLA ESPALLARDO
Some Notes towards Understanding the Construction of Middle-Class Urban Women's Sexuality in India SHILPA PHADKE
Through the Prism of Intersectionality: Same-Sex Sexualities in India JAYA SHARMA and DIPIKA NATH
The Struggle to be Ourselves, Neither Men Nor Women: Mak Nyahs in Malaysia KHARTINI SLAMAH
The Rights of People with Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour: Recent Progress and Continuing Challenges in China ZHANG BEICHUAN and JOAN KAUFMAN
Unlearning and Learning: The Sexuality and Rights Institute in India RADHIKA CHANDIRAMANI and GEETANJALI MISRA
Raising Sexuality as a Political Issue in the Catholic Philippines JUNICE L DEMETERIO-MELGAR
Working from Within: Using the Legitimacy of Religion to Create Change in Indonesia MASRUCHAH and BRIDGET KEENAN
Speaking with a New Voice: Sisters in Islam in Malaysia RASHIDAH SHUIB
Challenging Moral Guardianship in Pakistan SHAZIA MOHAMED
Protecting the Rights of Sex Workers: The Indian Experience GEETANJALI MISRA, AJAY MAHAL and RIMA SHAH
Rest, Recreation, and Resistance: Advancing the Rights of Sex Workers in Thailand VERONICA MAGAR and CHANTAWIPA APISUK
Not a Sob Story: Representing the Realities of Sex Work in India BISHAKHA DATTA
Communities beyond the Pale: Sex Workers` Rights and Human Rights in Sri Lanka SUNILA ABEYSEKERA
Index