Includes bibliographical references and index.

Development with a body: making the connections between sexuality, human rights, and development / Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Corrêa and Susie Jolly -- Development's encounter with sexuality: essentialism and beyond / Sonia Corrêa and Susan Jolly -- Sexual rights/human rights --- Sexual rights are human rights / Kate Sheill -- Sex work, trafficking and HIV: how development is compromising sex workers' human rights / Melissa Ditmore -- The language of rights / Jaya Sharma -- Children's sexual rights in an era of HIV/AIDS / Deevia Bhana -- The rights of man / Alan Greig -- Human rights interrupted: an illustration from India / Sumit Baudh -- Gender and sex orders -- Discrimination against lesbians in the workplace / Alejandra Sardá -- Ruling masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa / Kopano Ratele -- Gender, identity and travesti rights in Peru / Giuseppe Campuzano -- Small powers, little choice: reproductive and sexual rights in slums in Bangladesh / Sabina Faiz Rashid -- Social and political inclusion of sex workers as preventive measure against trafficking: Serbian experiences / Jelena Djordjevic -- Confronting our prejudices: women's movement experiences in Bangladesh / Shireen Huq -- Sexuality education as a human right: lessons from Nigeria / Adenike O. Esiet -- Terms of contact and touching change: investigating pleasure in an HIV epidemic / Jill Lewis and Gill Gordon -- A democracy of sexuality: linkages and strategies for sexual rights, participation, and development / Henry Armas -- Integrating sexuality into gender and human rights frameworks: a case study from Turkey / Pinar Ilkkarancan and Karin Ronge.