Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
By Amy Lind.
Description
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...
ISBN(s)
0415592623, 9780415592628
