Gender Sexuality And Social Justice Unpacking Dominant Development And Policy Discourses | Development Studies

This book addresses the intersections of gender sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions. Bringing together young scholars from Latin America Africa and Asia the book challenges dominant assumptions on sexuality in development discourse policy and practice and proposes alternative approaches. Reflecting on both the ‘global north’ and the ‘global south’ this book investigates key social justice issues from teenage pregnancy child marriage discourses sexual empowerment to sexual diversity female imprisonment and sexuality militarism and sexuality anti-trafficking policies and processes of racialization and othering in the context of migration. Overall the book challenges binary constructs and argues for an intersectional perspective on gender and sexual diversity as a problem of structural inequality that interacts with other systems of inequality based on race age class and geopolitics. This book will be of interest to social scientists and activists as well as development scholars and practitioners engaging with questions of gender sexuality and social justice. |Gender Sexuality and Social Justice Unpacking Dominant Development and Policy Discourses | Development Studies