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IX IASSCS CONFERENCE – “SEX AND THE MARKETPLACE WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?”

The ninth biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), will be entitled “Sex and the Marketplace: What’s Love got to do with it?”. It will happen between 28th and 31st August 2013, at Buenos Aires.

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Poverty and human rights

Breaking Through the Development Silos: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equity, is a collection of case studies from Mexico, India and Nigeria. Learn how certain national poverty reduction strategies in the economic south have failed to challenge the root causes of gender inequality.

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The State and sexual politics

This issue of Sexuality Health and Society brings significant contributions to a reflection on contemporary sexual politics in Latin America. The articles focus on the limits and vicissitudes faced by important State projects, in which human rights language is mobilized to protect not only certain individuals, but sexuality (and sexual pleasure) itself.

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An intellectual tradition in Latin America

This project, conducted by Mario Pecheny and colleagues at CLAM, seeks to understand the ways in which sexuality, rights and politics have been addressed in the region since the 1980s, resulting in an intellectual tradition of research and activism in this field.

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Rising State-homophobia

This sixth issue of ILGA annual report on State-sponsored homophobia sees unfortunately an increase in the total number of countries in the world with a legislation persecuting people due to their sexual orientation, which now are 78 against the 76 of last year. See also the world map of LGBT people rights.