According to the publishers, this "volume analyzes and documents the groundbreaking work done by many organizations to bring issues of sexuality and rights to public attention, to expand the freedoms of women and sexual minorities and to highlight the unfair distinctions faced by those not conforming to gender and sexual norms across a range of expressions, behaviours and identities in Asia.

This volume covers eight countries in South and Southeast Asia. The contributors address issues of power and social hierarchies by using the principles of justice, equality, non-discrimination, and access to rights and services. They cover diverse issues like sexual rights, sexuality education, sexual health services, transsexuals and other sexual minorities, HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as sex work and the representation of sexuality in popular culture. The contributors argue that neither gender nor sexuality can be addressed in isolation from human rights and demonstrate how linking sexuality and gender with human rights has an impact on people's lives across intersecting issues and contexts.

Moving beyond theoretical discussions of sexuality, gender and rights, this volume looks at what these ideas mean in practice and offers examples of the diversity of effective approaches that can be adopted in varied settings. Moreover, it illustrates how sexuality ties in with wider issues - health, personal relationships, economic well-being, equitable access to public services, and the freedom to think, speak and associate without fear of discrimination."

Contents:

• Introduction
• Looking in Horror and Fascination: Sex, Violence and Spectatorship in India
• The Stage, the Body: The Sites for Women's Dissen - A Case of Engendering the Praxis of Theatre in the Philippines
• Some Notes towards Understanding the Construction of Middle-Class Urban Women's Sexuality in India
• Through the Prism of Intersectionality: Same-Sex Sexualities in India
• The Struggle to be Ourselves, Neither Men Nor Women: Mak Nyahs in Malaysia
• The Rights of People with Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour: Recent Progress and Continuing Challenges in China
• Unlearning and Learning: The Sexuality and Rights Institute in India
• Raising Sexuality as a Political Issue in the Catholic Philippines
• Working from Within: Using the Legitimacy of Religion to Create Change in Indonesia
• Speaking with a New Voice: Sisters in Islam in Malaysia
• Challenging Moral Guardianship in Pakistan
• Protecting the Rights of Sex Workers: The Indian Experience
• Rest, Recreation, and Resistance: Advancing the Rights of Sex Workers in Thailand
• Not a Sob Story: Representing the Realities of Sex Work in India
• Communities beyond the Pale: Sex Workers' Rights and Human Rights in Sri Lanka
• Index

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