Development, sexual rights and global governance / / edited by Amy Lind
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| Autore: |
Lind Amy
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| Titolo: |
Development, sexual rights and global governance / / edited by Amy Lind
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| Pubblicazione: | 2010 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | |
| Edizione: | 1 ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.3 |
| 306.7 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Gay rights - Economic aspects |
| Economic development - Social aspects | |
| Economic development - Political aspects | |
| Globalization - Social aspects | |
| Sexual rights - Economic aspects | |
| Classificazione: | BUS068000POL000000POL011000 |
| Altri autori: | LindAmy |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Development, sexual rights and global governance |
| ISBN: | 1-135-24459-6 |
| 1-135-24460-X | |
| 1-282-57654-2 | |
| 9786612576546 | |
| 0-203-86834-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456274403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
RIPE series in global political economy ; ; 29.