This Handbook provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Editors’ Introduction - Ana Cristina Santos, Saskia E. Wieringa, Ryan Thoreson, Chiara Bertone and Zowie Davy
• Part I: Understanding Sexuality: Epistemologies/Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
• 1. Global Sexualities: Towards a Reconciliation between Decolonial Analysis and Human Rights - Matthew Waites
• 2. Pre-Colonial Actualities, Post-Colonial Amnesia and Neo-Colonial Assemblage - Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
• 3. The Queer Epistemologies: Challenges to the Modes of Knowing about Sexuality in Russia - Alexander Kondakov
• 4. Researching Childhood Sexuality - Stefan Lucke
• 5. Research Perspectives on Bisexuality - Annukka Lahti
• 6. Asexuality as an Epistemological Lens: An Evolving Multi-Layered Approach - Rita Alcaire
• 7. Anarchism and Sexuality - Lucy Nicholas
• 8. Sex and Secrecy in the Field: Methodological Dilemmas in Research in Chinese Massage Parlours - Marie-Louise Janssen
• Part II: Enforcing and Challenging Sexual Norms
• 9. Including Diversity? The Politics of Sex Education in the Netherlands - Willemijn Krebbekx
• 10. Sexuality Education: International Policies, Global Developments, and Contemporary Research Perspectives - Barbara Rothmüller and Marion Thuswald
• 11. Disrupting Heterosexuality in Intergenerational Relations - Chiara Bertone
• 12. Trans Athletes and the Posthuman: A Critical Analysis of Trans Policies in Sports - Ana Lúcia Santos
• 13. Heteronormativity and Passionate Aesthetics - Saskia E. Wieringa
• 14. Prison Heterocissexual Complex: Sociospatial Politics of Queer Incarceration and the Case of Turkey - Ece Canlı
• Part III: Interrogating/Undoing Sexual Categories
• 15. BDSM - Robin Bauer
• 16. Introducing the New Kid on the Block: Polyamory - Stefan F. Ossmann
• 17. Multiple Estrangements in the Twilight Zone: Chronic Illness and Queerness in Southern Europe - Mara Pieri
• 18. Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the Dominant Representations - Adnan Hossain
• 19. Queering the Postcolony: Same-Sex Desire and Xhosa Culture in Postcolonial South Africa - Lwando Scott
• 20. Tacit Power: A Case of HIV-Positive Housewives in Indonesia - Johanna Debora Imelda and Andi Nur Fa'izah
• Part IV: Enhancement Practices and Sexual Markets/Industries
• 21. ‘Virility Medicines’ and Changing Sexualities in Precarious Transformations in West Papua - Diana Teresa Pakasi
• 22. Questioning the ‘Viagrization’ of (Hetero)Sexual Ageing - Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, Catherine Barrett and Emily Wentzell
• 23. Consuming Yourself into Being: Women's Consumptive Practices and the Articulation of Acceptable Heterosexual Femininity - Claire Moran and Julie-Anne Carroll
• 24. Social Representation, Identity and HIV Prevention: The Case of PrEP among Gay Men - Rusi Jaspal
• 25. The Algorithms of Desire: The Field of the Pornographic - Karen Gabriel
• 26. From Zero Tolerance to Full Integration: Rethinking Prostitution Policies - Petra Östergren
• 27. Criminalise Women Buying Sex? Neo-Abolitionist Influence on Australian Politics and Media Consumers - Hilary Caldwell and John de Wit
• Part V: Sexual Rights and Citizenship (and the Governance of Sexuality)
• 28. Sexuality, Identity and the Politics of Recognition - Paddy McQueen
• 29. Sexuality, the Law and the Experiences of Women in Ireland - Christina Quinlan
• 30. Youth and Sexual Rights - Ryan Thoreson
• 31. Sexual Citizenship Re-centred: Gender and Sexual Diversity in Indonesia - Sharyn Graham Davies
• 32. Transgender Persons in Indian Courtrooms - Surabhi Shukla
• Part VI: Sexuality and Social Movements
• 33. Queer Muslim Challenges and Resistances within the Context of Globalized Sexualities - Daniel Ahmed Fernández
• 34. ‘Gender Ideology’ as Modular Discourse: A Survey of Transatlantic Activism against Gender - Annie Wilkinson
• 35. Borrowing and Imitation in Post-Soviet Trans Activisms - Yana Kirey-Sitnikova
• 36. Questioning Pathologization in Clinical Practice and Research from Trans and Intersex Perspectives - Amets Suess Schwend
• 37. Abstinence: A Global Perspective - Nicholas Velotta and Pepper Schwartz
• 38. Accounting and Authorizing: Sexuality, Violence, and Mass Atrocity Crimes - Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
• Part VII: Language and Cultural Representation
• 39. Non-Binary Sexualities: The Language of Desire, Practice, and Embodiment - Sebastian Cordoba
• 40. Images of Sexuality: The Aestheticization of Same-Sex Intimacy in Francophone Literary and Filmic Productions - Aminata Cécile Mbaye
• 41. Bodies in Transition: The Bakla as Transgender in Philippine Cinema - Mikee N. Inton
• 42. Performing Queer at the Theatre–Documentary Convergence: Mediated Queer Activism in Contemporary China - Hongwei Bao
• 43. Freedom Affects in Trans Erotica - Zowie Davy