TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 52, Issue 1 (March 2009)

Sexuality and Development

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Upfront

Editorial: SexPolitics and Rights in Development FREE

Presents the key messages of the journal issue on sexuality, heteronormativity and development

Wendy Harcourt

Development 52: 1-4; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.89

Guest Editorial: Sexuality and the Development Industry

Introduces the main concepts raised in the debates on sexuality and development

Andrea Cornwall and Susie Jolly

Development 52: 5-12; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.91

How the Development Industry Imagines Sex Work

Records an open floor session on sex work during the IDS conference on Sexuality and the Development Industry

Meena Seshu and Nandinee Bandhopadhyay in Conversation with Cheryl Overs

Development 52: 13-17; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.86

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Thematic Section: Heteronormativity in the Development Industry

Interrogating Norms: Feminists theorizing sexuality, gender and heterosexuality

Looks at the changing debates on gender and sexuality

Charmaine Pereira

Development 52: 18-24; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.84

Monster, Womb, MSM: The work of sex in international development

Asks whether or not sex and sexuality have been left unconsidered in international development

Andil Gosine

Development 52: 25-33; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.82

Governing Intimacy, Struggling for Sexual Rights: Challenging heteronormativity in the global development industry

Challenges heteronormativity and gender normativity in development

Amy Lind

Development 52: 34-42; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.71

Taming of the Shrewd Meyeli Chhele: A political economy of development's sexual subject

Examines the conditions under which epidemiological knowledge about 'men who have sex with men' is produced

Akshay Khanna

Development 52: 43-51; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.70

Reflections on the Construction of Heteronormativity

Shares her concerns about assuming that norms of sexuality govern us entirely

Jaya Sharma

Development 52: 52-55; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.72

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Dialogue: The Hot Issues

Feminists Reclaiming Creativity, Unity, Numbers and Time

Looks at sexuality in relation to feminism from the perspective of an activist working in Lebanon

 Nadine

Development 52: 56-58; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.83

Sexuality and Sexual Rights in Muslim Societies

Reports on the first Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) Sexuality Institute

Liz Ercevik Amado

Development 52: 59-63; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.85

Approaches to Sexuality in a Multilateral Fund in Nicaragua

Identifies the interests and priorities of different actors in the development industry in Nicaragua regarding sexuality issues

Camilo Antillón Najlis

Development 52: 64-67; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.74

Researching South African Youth, Gender and Sexuality Within the Context of HIV/AIDS

Argues that the lives and identities of young men and women must be central in any initiative to change sexual behaviour

Deevia Bhana and Rob Pattman

Development 52: 68-74; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.75

Contemporary Travesti Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Places travesti issues in a 'development' framework

Giuseppe Campuzano

Development 52: 75-83; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.90

Heteronormativity and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

Shows how understanding heteronormativity in HIV work can lead to the coalition-building needed to accelerate HIV prevention activism in Africa

Andy Seale

Development 52: 84-90; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.76

Women Who have Sex with Women in the Global HIV Pandemic

Raises the concern that women who have sex with women are often completely missing from sexual and reproductive health and rights policies

Karin Lenke and Mathilda Piehl

Development 52: 91-94; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.77

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Local/Global Encounters: Better Practices for Sex Positive Development

Promoting Safer Sex Through Pleasure: Lessons from 15 countries

Explores how 'erotophobia' in the health and development sectors is hindering effective safer sex promotion

Wendy Knerr and Anne Philpott

Development 52: 95-100; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.79

My Fake Wedding: Stirring up the tongzhi movement in China

Describes some serious and fun activities in China working with the lesbian and gay (tonghzi) movement

Xiaopei He

Development 52: 101-104; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.80

Saying No to Forced Early Retirement from Sex: Time to broaden the scope of HIV prevention in Kenya

Shows how interventions must break with stereotypes and create spaces for behaviour change strategies that begin with positive peoples lived experiences

Nelson Juma Otwoma, Nancy Adhiambo Opiyo and Cephas Kojwang

Development 52: 105-108; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.78

Same-sex Sexuality and Diversity Employment Policies in UK-based International Development Agencies

Outlines some of the difficulties when introducing diversity and sexual orientation in staff employment policy

Carolyn H Williams

Development 52: 109-113; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.73

Promoting Sexual Empowerment in Community-based Programmes

Describes the approach to sexuality in the book for communities on 'Taking Action'

Lucille C Atkin, Melissa Smith and Jane Maxwell

Development 52: 114-117; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.81

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Window on the World

Window on the World FREE

Gives a selection of the civil society groups working on sexuality as a positive dimension of development

Development 52: 118-121; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.87

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Book Shelf

Book Shelf

Describes four new publications on sexual rights and gender

Development 52: 122-123; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.88

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Resources

Resources on Sexuality and Development

Lists some of the latest publications on sexuality and development

Development 52: 124; doi:10.1057/dev.2009.2

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Who's Who

Who's Who

Gives contact details of contributors

Development 52: 125-130; doi:10.1057/dev.2009.1

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Last Word

Sexuality and the Development Industry

Provides links to the web report, podcasts of speeches and interviews held at the IDS Workshop held in Brighton April 2008

Development 52: 131; doi:10.1057/dev.2008.93