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Title Women, sexuality and the political power of pleasure / edited by Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins
Published London ; New York : Zed Books, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 309 pages)
Series Feminisms and development
Feminisms and development.
Contents Introduction : women, sexuality and the political power of pleasure / Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins -- 1. Thinking with pleasure : danger, sexuality and agency / Bibi Bakare-Yusuf -- 2. Challenging the pleasure versus danger binary : reflections on sexuality workshops with rural women's rights activists in north India / Jaya Sharma -- 3. Sexual pleasure as a woman's human right : experiences from a human rights training programme for women in Turkey / Gulsah Seral Aksakal -- 4. Better sex and more equal relationships : couple training in Nigeria / Dorothy Aken'ova -- 5. Building a movement for sexual rights and pleasure / Xiaopei He -- 6. Enabling disabled people to have and enjoy the kind of sexuality they want / Lorna Couldrick and Alex Cowan -- 7. Desires denied : sexual pleasure in the context of HIV / Alice Welbourn -- 8. Sex is a gift from God : paralysis and potential in sex education in Malawi / Anaïs Bertrand-Dansereau -- 9. Why we need to think about sexuality and sexual well-being : addressing sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa / Chi-Chi Undie -- 10. Could watching porn increase our expectations of (safe) pleasure? : an exploration of some promising harm-reduction practices / Anne Philpott and Krissy Ferris -- 11. Challenging clitoraid / Petra Boynton -- 12. How was it for you? : pleasure and performance in sex work / Jo Doezema -- 13. Eroticism, sensuality and 'women's secrets' among the Baganda / Sylvia Tamale -- 14. Laughter, the subversive body organ / Ana Francis Mor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Sexual behavior -- Political aspects
Sexual excitement -- Political aspects
Gender studies: women.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
Women -- Sexual behavior
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Jolly, Susie, editor.
Cornwall, Andrea, 1963- editor.
Hawkins, Kate, 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781780325736
1780325738
9781780325750
1780325754