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SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines

SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines
Richard Parker, Rosalid Petchesky and Robert Sember, Editors
Sexuality Policy Watch, 2007
Available in English and Spanish

SexPolitics, published as both a CD-rom and e-book, is a collection of analytical case studies from eight countries - Brazil, Egypt, India, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - and two global institutions - the World Bank and the United Nations - which aim to document and interrogate the global shaping and shifting of sexuality policy and politics. When taken together, the case studies examine national and international dynamics, identify cross-country commonalities and differences, and investigate connections and gaps between global and local sexual politics. Common threads emerging from the research outcomes attest to the entanglements of sexual politics at global and local levels and the importance of understanding
how power operates in sexuality debates.

Global Public Health

Worthington, N., Natividad, M.D.F., Petchesky R., Parker R. (eds)(2008) Special Supplement: The Contested Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Global Public Health 3(2): 1-104

This special supplement of Global Public Health, a leading peer-reviewed journal distinguished by its global focus and concern for health inequalities and the social and cultural dimensions of health, features condensed versions of six of the ten case studies that appear in SexPolitics, including Brazil, India, Peru, South Africa, Vietnam, and the World Bank. All six case studies bring to the fore the achievements and challenges of the social and political actors who struggle against the influences of religion, biomedicine, and politics; they also explore the nature of the interplay between social struggle and the state, the latter of which remains an important force with which to contend, even
in this increasingly globalized world.

Sexuality, Health and Human Rights

Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky and Sonia Corrêa
Routledge, 2008

This ground-breaking work, intended as a companion volume to the e-book SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines, provides a critical analysis of shifting theoretical perspectives and activist strategies regarding sexual politics and their larger geopolitical context in the twenty-first century. Long in the making, the book surveys the “Global ‘Sex’ Wars” in the shadow of both religious resurgence and political conservatism; new research agendas in the face of biomedical discourses and HIV/AIDS; and “The Promises and Limits of Sexual Rights,” both from within international LGBTQI and feminist human rights activism and beyond.