Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights

Thoroughly updated with over 30 newly written chapters, this edition of the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of the field.

Social researchers and their allies have worked hard in past decades to find new ways of understanding sexuality in a rapidly changing world. Growing attention is now given to the way sexuality intersects with other structures such as gender, age, ethnicity/race and disability, and increasing value is seen in a positive approach focused on ethics, pleasure, mutuality and reciprocity. This Handbook explores:

• theory, politics and early development of sexuality studies
• ways in which language, discourse and identification have become central to research on sex, sexuality and gender
• key issues across the broad media and digital ecology, demonstrating the centrality of representation, communication and digital technologies to sexual and gender practices
• research focusing on the body and its sexual pleasures
• work on forms of inequality, violence and abuse that are linked to sex, gender and sexuality

The Handbook is an essential reference for researchers and educators working in the fields of sexuality studies, gender studies, sexual health and human rights, and offers key reading for mid-level and advanced students.

Peter Aggleton has a background in the social sciences as applied to well-being, education and health. He holds senior professorial positions at a number of universities including The Australian National University in Canberra, UNSW Sydney, and UCL in London.

Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Carmen H. Logie is Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and a professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

Christy E. Newman is a professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney.

Richard Parker is Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University in New York, as well as Director of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), Co-Chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Public Health.