1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009111150403321

Titolo

Literacy in the Roman world / Mary Beard ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan, 1991

Descrizione fisica

198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series ; 3 , 1063-4304

Disciplina

302.22440937

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

N.AM. 96 Suppl. 3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Supplemento a Journal of Roman archaeology

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456274403321

Autore

Lind Amy

Titolo

Development, sexual rights and global governance / / edited by Amy Lind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2010

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

9786612576546

9781135244590

1135244596

9781135244606

113524460X

9781282576544

1282576542

9780203868348

020386834X

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

RIPE series in global political economy ; ; 29

Classificazione

BUS068000POL000000POL011000

Altri autori (Persone)

LindAmy

Disciplina

305.3

306.7

Soggetti

Gay rights - Economic aspects

Economic development - Social aspects

Economic development - Political aspects



Globalization - Social aspects

Sexual rights - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities; Part I 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; 2 Transgendering development: Reframing hijras and development; 3 Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: Household models reconsidered; Part II Negotiating heteronormativity in development institutions

4 The World Bank's GLOBE: Queers in/queering development5 NGOs as erotic sites; 6 Promoting exports, restructuring love: The World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry; 7 "Headless families" and "detoured men": Off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia; Part III Resisting global hegemonies, struggling for sexual rights and gender justice; 8 Spelling it out: From alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice; 9 Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: Supporting gender transgression as a development strategy

10 Behind the Mask: Developing LGBTI visibility in Africa11 Queer Dominican moves: In the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 ri