ABSTRACT

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since provided new legitimacy for work on sexuality, health and rights.

A detailed and up-to-date reference work, The Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights provides an authoritative overview of the main issues in the field today. Leading academics and practitioners are brought together to reflect on past, present and future approaches to understanding and promoting sexual health and rights. Divided into nine parts, it covers:

Pioneering beginnings
Language, discourse and sexual categories

From sexuality to health
The reproductive imperative

How to have sex in an epidemic
The choreography of sex

The darker side of sex

From sexual health to sexual rights

Struggles for erotic justice


This handbook surveys the state of the discipline and offers an examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas. It is an essential reference for academics and researchers in the fields of sexuality studies, sexual health and human rights, and offers key reading for more advanced students.

part |58 pages

Pioneering beginnings

chapter |8 pages

Margaret Sanger

Her legacy reconsidered 1

chapter |9 pages

The importance of being historical

Understanding the making of sexualities

chapter |8 pages

Research innovation

Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

part |58 pages

Language, discourse and sexual categories

part |48 pages

Reproductive and sexual health

chapter |8 pages

Sexual and reproductive

Connections and disconnections in public health

chapter |11 pages

Sex as ‘risk of conception'?

Sexual frames within the family planning field

chapter |9 pages

Teenage pregnancy

From sex to social pathology

part |51 pages

How to have sex in an epidemic

chapter |9 pages

Knowledge, power and HIV/AIDS

Research and the global response

chapter |9 pages

Safe sex

It's not as simple as ABC

chapter |11 pages

Sex under the influence of crystal meth

The experience of Latino gay men in San Francisco

part |54 pages

The choreography of sex

chapter |9 pages

Stripping

The embodiment and creation of sexualised fantasy

chapter |10 pages

Passionate uprisings 1

Young people, sexuality and politics in post-revolutionary Iran

chapter |10 pages

Tourism and the body

Embodiment and sexual performance among Dominican male sex workers

chapter |7 pages

Dancing with daemons

Desire and the improvisation of pleasure

chapter |8 pages

Sex in motion

Notes on urban Brazilian sexual scenes

part |57 pages

The darker side of sex

chapter |10 pages

Sexual and intimate partner violence

The global picture

chapter |8 pages

Innocence and scandal

Sexuality and the mass media

chapter |8 pages

Brutal logic 1

Violence, sexuality and macho myth in South African men's prisons 2 and beyond

chapter |12 pages

Beyond pseudo-homosexuality

Corrective rape, transactional sex and the undoing of lesbian identities in Namibia

part |61 pages

From sexual health to sexual rights

part |74 pages

Struggles for erotic justice

chapter |10 pages

Law, sexual morality and subversion 1

Urban sex work in Uganda

chapter |11 pages

Being young and living with HIV

The double neglect of sexual citizenship

chapter |11 pages

The ‘queer' politics of homo(sexuality) and matters of identity

Tentative notes in the context of HIV/AIDS

chapter |9 pages

Immigration and LGBT rights in the USA

Ironies and constraints in US asylum cases

chapter |9 pages

‘In the life' in diaspora

Autonomy/desire/community

chapter |11 pages

Black lesbian gender and sexual culture

Celebration and resistance