TAG: sexual politics
Second session—Science and Sexual Politics
Second session—Science and Sexual Politics Afternoon – August 24, 2009 The overview paper presented in the afternoon section, Science, Gender and Sexuality, was written by Kenneth Camargo, member of Sexuality Policy Watch Advisory Group and associate professor at the Institute of Social Medicine at the Rio de Janeiro State University (IMS/UERJ), Carlos Caceres, also a […]
Read moreFirst panel – Sexuality, States and Political Processes
First panel – Sexuality, States and Political Processes Morning—August 24 , 2009 The panel that followed was coordinated by Sérgio Carrara, co-director of the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) and counted with Franklin Gil, associate researchers of the Escuela de Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Elsa Muniz, […]
Read moreFirst Session – Sexuality, States and Political Processes
First Session – Sexuality, States and Political Processes Morning—August 24 , 2009 The first session of the Latin American Dialogue on Sexuality and Geopolitics was coordinated by Sonia Corrêa, co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), and Gloria Careaga, member of SPW Steering Committee, co-Secretary General of ILGA and professor in the Psychology Department at the […]
Read moreLatin American Dialogue
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – August 24-26, 2009 Latin America has been a fertile ground for sexual and reproductive rights debates during the last decades, possibly as a result of its political and historical processes. From the Liberation Theology to the economic theories developed from and for the socioeconomic situation of Latin America during authoritative […]
Read moreSPW participates in the research EroTICs
SPW was selected to conduct, in partnership with CLAM – Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights, the investigation of the Brazilian case for the EroTICs: Sexuality and the internet – an exploratory research project, organized by APC.
Read moreSexuality and Human Rights – Discussion Paper
Sexuality and Human Rights – Discussion Paper was commissioned by the International Council on Human Rights Policy from Alice M. Miller, Lecturer in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. The Council asked her to examine the content of sexual […]
Read moreSexuality and Human Rights – Discussion Paper
The International Council on Human Rights Policy launchs Sexuality and Human Rights – Discussion Paper, prepared by Alice M. Miller.
Read moreRelevant meetings – News 6
The 7th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), entitled “Contested Innocence – Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space”, was organized in Hanoi from April 15 to April 18, 2009. Read articles and a summary about this meeting.
Read moreSPW Asian Dialogue at IASSCS
In order to share the outcomes of the SPW Asian Dialogue on Sexuality and Geoplitics with participants of the 2009 IASSCS Conference, a devolution workshop was held in the Vietnam’s Women’s Museum on April 16th, when summaries of the various panels were presented and discussed.
Read moreDay 3 – April, 12th – Politics of sexuality in Asia: where do we go from here?
After two days of intense discussions, during which the politics of sexuality in Asia were examined from a variety of angles, the chairs of the four sessions were invited to present a synthesis of each panel. Also, professors Rosalind Petchesky and Pan Suiming had the task of briefly exploring cross-cutting themes and challenges running through […]
Read moreDay 2 – Sexuality flows: Information society and migration
In its second day, the Asian Regional Dialogue on Sexuality and Geopolitics addressed two critical realms that intersect with each other and have critical impacts on gender and sexuality constructs: information technology and migration. Back in 1936, Walter Benjamin could not have imagined how deeply and extremely technical reproductibility would have reached in the 21st […]
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