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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452975603321

Titolo

Women, sexuality and the political power of pleasure / / edited by Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2013

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-78032-573-8

1-78032-575-4

Descrizione fisica

x, 309 p

Collana

Feminisms and development

Disciplina

306.7/082

Soggetti

Women - Sexual behavior - Political aspects

Sexual excitement - Political aspects

Electronic books

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : women, sexuality and the political power of pleasure / Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins -- ; 1. Thinking with pleasure : danger, sexuality and agency / Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- ; 2. Challenging the pleasure versus danger binary : reflections on sexuality workshops with rural women's rights activists in north India / Jaya Sharma -- ; 3. Sexual pleasure as a woman's human right : experiences from a human rights training programme for women in Turkey / Gulsah Seral Aksakal -- ; 4. Better sex and more equal relationships : couple training in Nigeria / Dorothy Aken'ova -- ; 5. Building a movement for sexual rights and pleasure / Xiaopei He -- ; 6. Enabling disabled people to have and enjoy the kind of sexuality they want / Lorna Couldrick and Alex Cowan -- ; 7. Desires denied : sexual pleasure in the context of HIV / Alice Welbourn -- ; 8. Sex is a gift from God : paralysis and potential in sex education in Malawi / Anaìˆs Bertrand-Dansereau -- ; 9. Why we need to think about sexuality and sexual well-being : addressing sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa / Chi-Chi Undie -- ; 10. Could watching porn increase our expectations of (safe) pleasure? : an exploration of some promising harm-reduction practices / Anne Philpott and Krissy Ferris -- ; 11. Challenging clitoraid



/ Petra Boynton -- ; 12. How was it for you? : pleasure and performance in sex work / Jo Doezema -- ; 13. Eroticism, sensuality and 'women's secrets' among the Baganda / Sylvia Tamale -- ; 14. Laughter, the subversive body organ / Ana Francis Mor.