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Attitudes towards sexuality and gender in South and Southeast Asia have begun to change in recent decades. However, diverse forces-such as the resurgence of religious fundamentalism, increased militarization, the spread of HIV and AIDS, and the continued preference for male children coupled with constraints on women’s power to control all aspects of their lives-continue to have negative consequences. This volume analyzes and documents the groundbreaking work ...
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 ...