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This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relatingto the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation or identity. Covering topics such as abortion, gender identity, adolescent sexuality and homosexuality, the chapters in this book discuss the impact of culture, morality and social beliefs on the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights across the continent, particularly in relation to vulnerable and marginalized groups. The book also explores the role of litigation, national human rights institutions and regional human rights bodies in advancing the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region. Throughout, the contributions highlight the relevance of a rights-based framework in addressing topical and contentious issues on sexual and reproductive health and rights within Sub-Saharan Africa.This book will be of interest to researchers of sexuality, civil rights and health in Africa.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003175049, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Reproductive health --- Sexual health --- Health services accessibility --- Government policy --- Access to health care --- Accessibility of health services --- Availability of health services --- Medical care --- Hygiene, Sexual --- Hygiene, Social --- Sex hygiene --- Sexual hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Sex instruction --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Human reproduction --- Human reproductive health --- Human reproductive medicine --- Reproductive medicine --- Access --- Health aspects --- Human rights, civil rights --- Sex and sexuality, social aspects --- Sexology --- Human Rights --- Social Science --- Political Science

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Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes early cinema, vaudeville performances, and popular newspapers and magazines with insights drawn from close interpretations of transcripts from Sacramento court cases. She demonstrates how attitudes that emerged in the popular discourse--ideas about gender roles, female desire, prostitution, divorce, and homosexuality--often found complex and contradictory expression in the courts. As judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and juries all weighed in with differing opinions, the courtroom itself became a site of multiple discourses that attempted to make sense of a growing sexual chaos. In tracing the birth of modern sexuality, Ullman chronicles the dynamics of social change during a unique cultural moment and explains the shifts in the sexual ethos of turn-of-the-century America. Instead of telling the familiar story of steadily increasing liberation of sexual urges, Ullman chronicles the complex confusions and negotiations of an increasingly public sexual discourse. She relates how laws against cross-dressing gained force at the same time that female impersonation became popular in vaudeville acts, how images of prostitutes were changed by the commercialization of the female body in advertising and film, and how visible expression of female desire was submerged in rape and divorce proceedings. Ullman blends social history, textual analysis, and film and performance criticism to explain how sexuality and desire became an essential part of personal identity in this century. Her keen, accessible account of a community on the brink of the modern era offers a provocative interpretation of the seeds of our sexual present.

Sex customs --- Sexual ethics --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Sex --- Sex ethics --- Sexual behavior, Ethics of --- Ethics --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- United States --- 20th century --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american society. --- 20th century gender politics. --- california. --- court cases. --- courtroom. --- crossdressing. --- divorce. --- early cinema. --- female body. --- female desire. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- homosexuality. --- medical psychology of sexuality. --- modern sexuality. --- popular newspapers. --- prostitution. --- public sexual discourse. --- rape. --- sacramento. --- sex and sexuality. --- sexual chaos. --- sexual liberation. --- social change. --- social construction of sexuality. --- vaudeville performances.

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In this novel approach to understanding consent, Jill D. Weinberg presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM). Participants in both cases assent to injury and thereby engage in a form of social decriminalization, using the language of consent to render their actions legally and socially tolerable. Yet, these activities are treated differently under criminal battery law: sports, including MMA, are generally absolved from the charge of criminal battery, whereas BDSM often represents a violation of criminal battery law. Using interviews and ethnographic observation, Weinberg argues that where law authorizes a person's consent to an activity, as in MMA, consent is not meaningfully constructed or regulated by the participants themselves. In contrast, where law prohibits a person's consent to an activity, as in BDSM, participants actively construct and regulate consent. A synthesis of criminal law and ethnography, Consensual Violence is a fascinating account of how consent is framed among participants engaged in violent acts and lays the groundwork for a sociological understanding of the process of decriminalization.

Decriminalization --- Violence --- Mixed martial arts --- Sadomasochism --- Consent (Law) --- Declaration of intention --- Justification (Law) --- Algolagnia --- Algophilia --- BDSM (Sexual behavior) --- Masochism, Sexual --- S & M (Sadomasochism) --- S and M (Sadomasochism) --- S/M (Sadomasochism) --- Sadism, Sexual --- Sado-masochism --- Sexual masochism --- Sexual sadism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Leather lifestyle --- Masochism --- Sadism --- Sexual dominance and submission --- MMA (Mixed martial arts) --- Ultimate fighting --- Martial arts --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation --- bdsm. --- case studies. --- chokehold. --- conduct. --- consent. --- criminal battery. --- criminal law. --- decriminalization. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- experiment. --- fighting. --- giving consent. --- health and wellness. --- interviews. --- language of consent. --- language. --- law and order. --- legal cases. --- legal issues. --- mental health. --- mma. --- observation. --- safety. --- sex and sexuality. --- sexuality. --- social experiment. --- social issues. --- social science. --- social studies. --- taboo. --- understanding consent. --- violence.