Sage Publications The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities

Product Description This two-volume Handbook provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes. The Handbook offers a robust theoretical underpinning and critical outlook on current global, glocal, and ‘new’ sexualities and practices, whilst offering an extensive reflection on current challenges and future directions of the field. The broad coverage of topics engages with a range of theories, and maintains a multi-disciplinary framework. PART ONE: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological ChallengesPART TWO: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual NormsPART THREE: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual CategoriesPART FOUR: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/IndustriesPART FIVE: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (And the Governance of Sexuality)PART SIX: Sexuality and Social Movements PART SEVEN: Language and Cultural Representation About the Author Ana Cristina SantosWith a background in Sociology and a PhD in Gender Studies, University of Leeds, UK, Ana Cristina Santos works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Over the years she has coordinated a number of research projects on LGBTQI+, gender, dissident bodies, intimate citizenship and human rights. Between 2014 and 2019, she was awarded a Research Grant by the European Research Council to lead the cross-national study INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The micropolitics of intimacy in Southern Europe (www.ces.uc.pt/intimate). Between 2018 and 2021 she is the PI for Portugal of the International Research Consortium for CILIA LGBTQI+ Lives, funded by the European Agency NORFACE. Vice-chair of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association between 2012 and 2016, since 2013 she is also Co-Director of the International PhD Program Human Rights in Contemporary Societies. Significant publications include Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Sexualities Research: Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications (Routledge, 2017, with A. King and I. Crowhurst), as well as the Special Issue "Trans* Policy and Practice" of Critical Social Policy (2018, vol 38, n.1, with  S. Hines, Z. Davy, S. Monro, J. Motmans, and J. Van Der Ros). Saskia E. Wieringais Emerita Professor at the University of Amsterdam.She is a co-founder of the Kartini Asia Network. She has helped set up women’s studies programmes in the Caribbean, Namibia, the Sudan and Bangladesh. She wrote and (co-) edited more than 30 books and over 200 articles.  Her book publications include: (1999, with E. Blackwood eds) Female Desires; Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, Columbia University Press; Sexual Politics in Indonesia; London: Palgrave/McMillan Publishers; (2003); Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives, Women’s Same Sex Experiences in Southern Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Publishers (2005 with Ruth Morgan);  Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Palgrave. (2007, edited with Evelyn Blackwood and Abha Bhaiya); (2012 co-edited with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana) The Future of Asian Feminisms; (2013 co-edited with Horacio Sivori) Sexual Politics in the Global South and (2013, co-edited with Maznah Mohamad) Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: concept,  law and process. Sussex Academic Publishers; Heteronormativity in Asia (2015 Sussex Academic Press); Propaganda and the Indonesian genocide, imagined evil (2018, with Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, Routledge). In 2019 The IPT1965 and the Indonesian genocide (co-edited with Annie Pohlman and Jess Melvin, Routledge) appeared. Saskia Wieringa received various awards for her scholarly work. Her recent research projects focus on women’s same-sex relations in historical perspective in Indonesia a