About the Book
This two-volume Handbook provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes. The Handbook offers a robust theoretical underpinning and critical outlook on current global, glocal, and 'new' sexualities and practices, whilst offering an extensive reflection on current challenges and future directions of the field. The broad coverage of topics engages with a range of theories, and maintains a multi-disciplinary framework.
PART ONE: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
PART TWO: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms
PART THREE: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories
PART FOUR: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries
PART FIVE: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (And the Governance of Sexuality)
PART SIX: Sexuality and Social Movements
PART SEVEN: Language and Cultural Representation
Table of Contents:
Volume 1
Editor′s Introduction - Ana Cristina Santos, Saskia Wieringa, Ryan Thoresen, Chiara Bertone, & Zowie Davy
Part 1: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Chapter 1: Global Sexualities: Towards a Reconciliation Between Decolonial Analysis and Human Rights - Matthew Waites
Chapter 2: Pre-colonial Actualities, Post-colonial Amnesia and Neo-colonial Assemblage - Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Chapter 3: The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the modes of knowing about sexuality in Russia - Alexander Kondakov
Chapter 4: Researching Childhood Sexuality - Stefan Lucke
Chapter 5: Research perspectives on bisexuality - Annukka Lahti
Chapter 6: Asexuality as an epistemological lens: an evolving multi-layered approach - Rita Alcaire
Chapter 7: Anarchism and Sexuality - Lucy Nicholas
Chapter 8: Sex and Secrecy in the Field: Methodological dilemmas in research in Chinese massage parlours - Marie-Louise Janssen
Part 2: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms
Chapter 9: Including Diversity? The politics of sex education in the Netherlands - Willemijn Krebbekx
Chapter 10: Sexuality Education: International policies, global developments, and contemporary research perspectives - Barbara Rothmüller & Marion Thuswald
Chapter 11: Disrupting heterosexuality in intergenerational relations - Chiara Bertone
Chapter 12: Trans Athletes and the Post-human: a critical analysis of trans policies in sports - Ana Lucia Santos
Chapter 13: Heteronormativity and Passionate Aesthetics - Saskia E. Wieringa
Chapter 14: Prison Heterocissexual Complex: Sociospatial Politics of Queer Incarceration and the Case of Turkey - Ece Canli
Part 3: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories
Chapter 15: BDSM - Robin Bauer
Chapter 16: Introducing the new kid on the block: Polyamory - Stefan F. Ossmann
Chapter 17: Multiple estrangements in the twilight zone: chronic illness and queerness in Southern Europe - Mara Pieri
Chapter 18: Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the dominant representations - Adnan Hossain
Chapter 19: Queering the Postcolony: Same-sex desire and Xhosa Culture in Postcolonial South Africa - Lwando Scott
Chapter 20: Tacit Power: A Case of HIV-Positive Housewives in Indonesia - Johanna Debora Imelda & Andi Nur Fa’izah
Volume 2
Part 4: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries
Chapter 21: ′Virility Medicines′ and Changing Sexualities in Precarious Transformations in West Papua - Diana Teresa Pakasi
Chapter 22: Questioning the ′viagrization′ of (hetero)sexual ageing - Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, Catherine Barrett, & Emily Wentzell
Chapter 23: Consuming yourself into being: Women′s consumptive practices and the articulation of acceptable heterosexual femininity - Claire Moran & Julie-Anne Carroll
Chapter 24: Social Representation, Identity and HIV Prevention: The Case of PrEP among Gay Men - Rusi Jaspal
Chapter 25: The Algorithms of desire: The field of the pornographic - Karen Gabriel
Chapter 26: From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies - Petra Östergren
Chapter 27: Criminalise women buying sex? Neo-abolitionist influence on Australian politics and media consumers - Hilary Caldwell & John de Wit
Part 5: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (and the Governance of Sexuality)
Chapter 28: Sexuality, identity and the politics of recognition - Paddy McQueen
Chapter 29: Sexuality, the law and the experiences of women in Ireland - Christina Quinlan
Chapter 30: Youth and Sexual Rights - Ryan Thoreson
Chapter 31: Sexual Citizenship Re-centred: Gender and Sexual Diversity in Indonesia - Sharyn Graham Davies
Chapter 32: Transgender Persons in Indian Courtrooms - Surabhi Shukla
Part 6: Sexuality and Social Movements
Chapter 33: Queer Muslim Challenges and Resistances within the Context of Globalized Sexualities - Daniel Ahmed Fernández
Chapter 34: "Gender Ideology" as Modular Discourse: A Survey of Transatlantic Activism Against Gender - Annie Wilkinson
Chapter 35: Borrowing and imitation in post-Soviet trans activisms - Yana Kirey-Sitnikova
Chapter 36: Questioning pathologization in clinical practice and research from trans and intersex perspectives - Amets Suess Schwend
Chapter 37: Abstinence: A Global Perspectives - Nicholas Velotta & Pepper Schwartz
Chapter 38: Accounting and Authorizing: Sexuality, Violence, and Mass Atrocity Crimes - Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
Part 7: Language and Cultural Representation
Chapter 39: Non-binary Sexualities: The Language of Desire, Practice, and Embodiment - Sebastian Cordoba
Chapter 40: Images of Sexuality: The Aestheticization of Same-Sex Intimacy in Francophone Literary and Filmic Productions - Aminata Cécile Mbaye
Chapter 41: Bodies in Transition: The Bakla as Transgender in Philippine Cinema - Mikee N. Inton
Chapter 42: Performing Queer at the Theatre-Documentary Convergence: Mediated Queer Activism in Contemporary China - Hongwei Bao
Chapter 43: Freedom Affects in Trans Erotica - Zowie Davy
About the Author :
Ana Cristina Santos With a background in Sociology and a PhD in Gender Studies, University of Leeds, UK, Ana Cristina Santos works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Over the years she has coordinated a number of research projects on LGBTQI+, gender, dissident bodies, intimate citizenship and human rights. Between 2014 and 2019, she was awarded a Research Grant by the European Research Council to lead the cross-national study INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The micropolitics of intimacy in Southern Europe (www.ces.uc.pt/intimate). Between 2018 and 2021 she is the PI for Portugal of the International Research Consortium for CILIA LGBTQI+ Lives, funded by the European Agency NORFACE.
Vice-chair of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association between 2012 and 2016, since 2013 she is also Co-Director of the International PhD Program Human Rights in Contemporary Societies.
Significant publications include Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Sexualities Research: Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications (Routledge, 2017, with A. King and I. Crowhurst), as well as the Special Issue "Trans* Policy and Practice" of Critical Social Policy (2018, vol 38, n.1, with S. Hines, Z. Davy, S. Monro, J. Motmans, and J. Van Der Ros). Saskia E. Wieringa is Emerita Professor at the University of Amsterdam.She is a co-founder of the Kartini Asia Network. She has helped set up women's studies programmes in the Caribbean, Namibia, the Sudan and Bangladesh. She wrote and (co-) edited more than 30 books and over 200 articles. Her book publications include: (1999, with E. Blackwood eds) Female Desires; Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, Columbia University Press; Sexual Politics in Indonesia; London: Palgrave/McMillan Publishers; (2003); Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives, Women's Same Sex Experiences in Southern Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Publishers (2005 with Ruth Morgan); Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Palgrave. (2007, edited with Evelyn Blackwood and Abha Bhaiya); (2012 co-edited with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana) The Future of Asian Feminisms; (2013 co-edited with Horacio Sivori) Sexual Politics in the Global South and (2013, co-edited with Maznah Mohamad) Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: concept, law and process. Sussex Academic Publishers; Heteronormativity in Asia (2015 Sussex Academic Press); Propaganda and the Indonesian genocide, imagined evil (2018, with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, Routledge). In 2019 The IPT1965 and the Indonesian genocide (co-edited with Annie Pohlman and Jess Melvin, Routledge) appeared. Saskia Wieringa received various awards for her scholarly work. Her recent research projects focus on women's same-sex relations in historical perspective in Indonesia and on the post-1965 violence in East Java. She is co-founder and the chair of the Foundation IPT 1965 which organized a People's Tribunal on the Indonesian post-1965 crimes against humanity in 2015.
Ryan Thoreson is the Cover-Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights at Yale Law School. His work focuses on LGBT children's rights and LGBT rights in the United States, with a particular focus on transgender equality, access to housing and intimate partner violence services, and discriminatory exemptions in counseling, adoption and foster care, and public accommodations. Thoreson has a JD from Yale Law School and a DPhil in anthropology from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Chiara Bertone is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy, where she teaches Sociology of the Family and chairs the BA in Social Work. Her main interests lie in gender, sexuality and family change. She has worked on sexual citizenship, non-heterosexual experiences and family relations, critical approaches to heterosexuality and masculinity, medicalising and healthist frames on sexuality. She has coordinated a European project on the families of origin of LG youth, and has contributed to research on European LGBT policies by local administrations. She is the current coordinator of the ESA Sexuality Research Network. Her publications include the volume Le omosessualità (2009); she has co-edited Queerying families of origin (2014) and a book on the medicalization of male sexuality Le fragilità del sesso forte (2016).
Zowie Davy PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Centre for LGBTQ Research at De Montfort University. Zowie's work centers on medicolegal constructions of gender and sexuality in healthcare. Her current research spans (trans) gender studies including critical approaches to gender dysphoria, a project on parents' experiences of school cultures while supporting their trans children, and LGBT Sex Work Migration and Health. Zowie has published a number of books and articles about transgender embodiment and her book Recognizing Transsexuals won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2012.
