Women, sexuality and the political power of pleasure / edited by Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins.


London New York : Zed Books, 2013.
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Part of the series Feminisms and development;Feminisms and development.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Introduction : women, sexuality and the political power of pleasure / Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins — Thinking with pleasure : danger, sexuality and agency / Bibi Bakare-Yusuf — Challenging the pleasure versus danger binary : reflections on sexuality workshops with rural women’s rights activists in north India / Jaya Sharma — Sexual pleasure as a woman’s human right : experiences from a human rights training programme for women in Turkey / Gulsah Seral Aksakal — Better sex and more equal relationships : couple training in Nigeria / Dorothy Aken’ova — Building a movement for sexual rights and pleasure / Xiaopei He — Enabling disabled people to have and enjoy the kind of sexuality they want / Lorna Couldrick and Alex Cowan — Desires denied : sexual pleasure in the context of HIV / Alice Welbourn — Sex is a gift from God : paralysis and potential in sex education in Malawi / Anaïs Bertrand-Dansereau — Why we need to think about sexuality and sexual well-being : addressing sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa / Chi-Chi Undie — Could watching porn increase our expectations of (safe) pleasure? : an exploration of some promising harm-reduction practices / Anne Philpott and Krissy Ferris — Challenging clitoraid / Petra Boynton — How was it for you? : pleasure and performance in sex work / Jo Doezema — Eroticism, sensuality and ‘women’s secrets’ among the Baganda / Sylvia Tamale — Laughter, the subversive body organ / Ana Francis Mor.

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