Sex politics: reports from the Front Lines.

Sex Politics: Reports from the Front Lines is a comparative study of the politics of sexuality sexual health and sexual rights in eight countries and two global institutions. Over the past few decades sexuality has become the focal point for political controversy and a key domain for social change. Issues such as protecting sexual freedoms and enhancing access to resources that promote sexual health are among the SPWs central concerns. The documents that are included in Sex Politics are based on research that has been carried out between 2004 and 2007 on sexuality and politics in Brazil Egypt India Peru Poland South Africa Turkey Vietnam the United Nations and the World Bank. These case studies are framed at the outset by an introductory chapter on sexual rights policies across countries and cultures that seeks to describe some of the conceptual architecture as well as the collaborative process that was used in developing these studies and at the end by a crosscutting analysis of the local and global politics of sex and reproduction that seeks to offer a preliminary analysis of at least some of the issues that emerge from a comparative reading of the diverse case studies included in this work. (excerpt)