Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy

Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy engages with public policy and its intersection with contemporary discourse on sexuality and rights, and by extension the inclusion or exclusion of groups of individuals in mainstream sociocultural groups in societies.

Chima J. Korieh is professor of African history and gender studies, and Director of Africana Studies at Marquette University, Milwaukee. Elizabeth O. Onogwu teaches African literature at the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Introduction-Chima J. Korieh and Elizabeth Onogwu Part I: Marriage, Mediated Representations of Sexuality and Spirituality 1.Desiring Justice Beyond Human Rights: Biopower and Sexual Citizenship-Mary Bunch 2.Sexual Citizenship and Rights: Tracing Discontinuities in the Theory and Praxis of Sexual Rights-Erick Monterrosas 3.Beyond Human Rights: Sexuality and Violence in the Liberal Order-Luke Amadi 4.What's Wrong with Marriage Rights? -Paul Martorelli 5.Engaging Critical Gender Theory in Catholic Social Thought: An Emerging Conversation - Rachel Bruns 6.Human Rights and Sexuality: Spiritual and Natural Companion - Hannah Chukwu 7.Gender Hysteria: The Other Effect of Public Policy in Armenia - Tamar Shirinian 8.Humor and Sexual Orientation: The Anti-Homosexual Politics of La Cage Aux Folles and Gazon Maudit-Manfa Sanogo Part II: Gender, Prostitution, and Sexual Violence 9.Prostitution, Gendered Urbanism, and Contested Sexuality Rights in Nigeria - Obinna Innocent Ihunna 10.Policing Transactional