Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights (Routledge Handbooks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415468647 ISBN 13: 9780415468640

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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 Routledge 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.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Aggleton is Professor of Education and Health and holds a UNSW Strategic Chair at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Australia. He is well known internationally for his analytic work on the social aspects of HIV, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health. He is the editor of the international peer reviewed journals: Culture, Health and Sexuality and Sex Education, and is Associate Editor of the journals AIDS Education and Prevention, Global Public Health and Health Education Research. He has global experience researching the social aspects of HIV-related prevention, treatment and care and has worked closely with a range of bilateral and UN system agencies to strengthen the international response to HIV.

Richard Parker is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, USA. The editor of the journal Global Public Health, and the co-convenor of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) (www.sxpolitics.org), he has worked extensively on issues of sexuality, health and rights for many years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415468647
• ISBN 13: 9780415468640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 506
• Editor: Aggleton Peter, Parker Richard