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The Importance of Being Perverse: Troubling Law, Identities, Health and Rights in Search of Global Justice

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The premise of this chapter is that policy makers and practitioners concerned with sexual health or with the health of persons of diverse sexualities can and should be part of a global struggle for justice and rights. At the same time, because rights claims for gay-identified or sexually and gender-nonconforming persons do not automatically encompass broader justice claims in health, we seek to explore the tools and principles in health, rights, law, and sexuality that open or close down a connection to broader justice. We suggest that the process of theorizing and practicing an integrated approach to sexuality—critiquing and linking the worlds of health, law, and human rights—can result in practices and positions that are more than mere sums of our current understanding and thus contribute to politically strategic and self-conscious strategies of coalition with others seeking greater justice in health.

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Fabeni, S., Miller, A.M. (2007). The Importance of Being Perverse: Troubling Law, Identities, Health and Rights in Search of Global Justice. In: Meyer, I.H., Northridge, M.E. (eds) The Health of Sexual Minorities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31334-4_5

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