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Health and Human Rights
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Sexuality and Human Rights

Authors: Susana T. Fried;

Sexuality and Human Rights

Abstract

E fforts to develop the concepts and strategies of sexuality and human rights have been emerging over the past two decades.1 A wide range of groups engaged in a number of often-overlapping movements (such as women's health, human rights, anti-violence, and reproductive rights) have actively initiated and participated in a process of trying to better understand sexuality in the context of human rights.2 As the following bibliography illustrates, the range of issues encompassed under the rubric of sexual rights/sexuality and human rights is quite wide-ranging. Sexuality is understood to be composed of sexual identity and orientation, gender identity, sexual desire, and sexual practices, which together constitute an individual's sexual "subjectivity" in society. Sexuality is, of course, affected by social location and, in particular, by experiences of race, class, culture, and community. Most of the articles annotated in this bibliography argue that our understanding of our body and self is shaped by a specific cultural, material, socioeconomic, and political context.3 Sexuality is also variable and fluid, and individuals' relationship to sexuality can evolve over time. And since sexuality-related advocacy can

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