Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Gender Health and Rights

<p>Thoroughly updated with over 30 newly written chapters this edition of the <em>Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Gender Health and Rights</em> brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of the field.</p><p>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:</p><ul> <li>theory politics and early development of sexuality studies</li> <li>ways in which language discourse and identification have become central to research on sex sexuality and gender</li> <li>key issues across the broad media and digital ecology demonstrating the centrality of representation communication and digital technologies to sexual and gender practices</li> <li>research focusing on the body and its sexual pleasures</li> <li>work on forms of inequality violence and abuse that are linked to sex gender and sexuality</li> </ul><p>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.</p>