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- Title
Theorizing Sexuality and Gender in Development.
- Authors
Bergstrom-Borins, Adryan
- Abstract
Within the growing work on gender and sexuality in development, critical deconstructionist approaches bring important and critical insights on the heteronormativity and colonizing methodology of both the study and practice of development. This paper will assess the history of the inclusion of gender and sexuality in development, examining the colonizing language and exclusionary heteronormative processes within the current development paradigm that marginalize non-male and non-normative bodies and sexualities. There is presently a need for a more localized intersectional development approach that is grounded within a feminist and anticapitalist framework. Further, it is crucial that these methodologies maintain a participatory (or are locally-driven in) nature and incorporate new ideas about sexuality, pleasure, gender and queer theory, while not excluding men from the process. This can be ensured by constructively including men in gender initiatives.
- Subjects
GENDERISM; GENDER role; SEXISM; HUMAN sexuality; FEMINISM
- Publication
Undercurrent, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 2, p6
- ISSN
1712-0934
- Publication type
Article