The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities

Zowie Davy, Ana Cristina Santos, Chiara Bertone, Ryan Thoreson, Saskia E. Wieringa, Zowie Davy, Ana Cristina Santos, Chiara Bertone, Ryan Thoreson, Saskia E. Wieringa, SAGE Publications Ltd

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781526424129
• eBook ISBN: 9781529721812
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Editors’ Introduction
• Part I Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
• 1 Global Sexualities: Towards a Reconciliation between Decolonial Analysis and Human Rights
• 2 Pre-Colonial Actualities, Post-Colonial Amnesia and Neo-Colonial Assemblage
• 3 The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the Modes of Knowing about Sexuality in Russia
• 4 Researching Childhood Sexuality
• 5 Research Perspectives on Bisexuality
• 6 Asexuality as an Epistemological Lens: An Evolving Multi-Layered Approach1
• 7 Anarchism and Sexuality
• 8 Sex and Secrecy in the Field: Methodological Dilemmas in Research in Chinese Massage Parlours
• Part II Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms
• 9 Including Diversity? The Politics of Sex Education in the Netherlands
• 10 Sexuality Education: International Policies, Global Developments, and Contemporary Research Perspectives
• 11 Disrupting Heterosexuality in Intergenerational Relations
• 12 Trans Athletes and the Posthuman: A Critical Analysis of Trans Policies in Sports1
• 13 Heteronormativity and Passionate Aesthetics
• 14 Prison Heterocissexual Complex: Sociospatial Politics of Queer Incarceration and the Case of Turkey
• Part III Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories
• 15 BDSM
• 16 Introducing the New Kid on the Block: Polyamory
• 17 Multiple Estrangements in the Twilight Zone: Chronic Illness and Queerness in Southern Europe
• 18 Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the Dominant Representations
• 19 Queering the Postcolony: Same-Sex Desire and Xhosa Culture in Postcolonial South Africa
• 20 Tacit Power: A Case of HIV-Positive Housewives in Indonesia
• Part IV Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries
• 21 ‘Virility Medicines’ and Changing Sexualities in Precarious Transformations in West Papua
• 22 Questioning the ‘Viagrization’ of (Hetero)Sexual Ageing
• 23 Consuming Yourself into Being: Women's Consumptive Practices and the Articulation of Acceptable Heterosexual Femininity
• 24 Social Representation, Identity and HIV Prevention: The Case of PrEP among Gay Men
• 25 The Algorithms of Desire: The Field of the Pornographic
• 26 From Zero Tolerance to Full Integration: Rethinking Prostitution Policies
• 27 Criminalise Women Buying Sex? Neo-Abolitionist Influence on Australian Politics and Media Consumers
• Part V Sexual Rights and Citizenship (And the Governance of Sexuality)
• 28 Sexuality, Identity and the Politics of Recognition
• 29 Sexuality, the Law and the Experiences of Women in Ireland
• 30 Youth and Sexual Rights
• 31 Sexual Citizenship Re-centred: Gender and Sexual Diversity in Indonesia
• 32 Transgender Persons in Indian Courtrooms*
• Part VI Sexuality and Social Movements
• 33 Queer Muslim Challenges and Resistances within the Context of Globalized Sexualities
• 34 ‘Gender Ideology’ as Modular Discourse: A Survey of Transatlantic Activism against Gender
• 35 Borrowing and Imitation in Post-Soviet Trans Activisms
• 36 Questioning Pathologization in Clinical Practice and Research from Trans and Intersex Perspectives
• 37 Abstinence: A Global Perspective
• 38 Accounting and Authorizing: Sexuality, Violence, and Mass Atrocity Crimes
• Part VII Language and Cultural Representation
• 39 Non-Binary Sexualities: The Language of Desire, Practice, and Embodiment
• 40 Images of Sexuality: The Aestheticization of Same-Sex Intimacy in Francophone Literary and Filmic Productions
• 41 Bodies in Transition: The Bakla as Transgender in Philippine Cinema
• 42 Performing Queer at the Theatre–Documentary Convergence: Mediated Queer Activism in Contemporary China
• 43 Freedom Affects in Trans Erotica
• Index