This is a qualitative data collection.<br> <br> This research comprised a study of le... more This is a qualitative data collection.<br> <br> This research comprised a study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities work amongst local authorities which was conducted between March 2008 and September 2009. The field of LGBT equalities work at that time was undergoing a period of rapid change, following the abolishment of Section 28 and fuelled by the introduction of a range of new legislation as well as on-going local government modernisation. This project builds on existing research by exploring the impact of the changing policy environment on LGBT equalities initiatives amongst local authorities and their partner agencies. The research used and developed innovative qualitative Action Learning Set methodologies and interviews with local and national stakeholders. <br> <br> The aims of the project were: to examine the impact of recent policy changes on the field of LGBT equalities work in local government; to address key conceptual iss...
Aims of this talk: To look at homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in the context of UK local go... more Aims of this talk: To look at homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in the context of UK local government work To focus on the processes and practices taking place regarding the implementation of public policies To identify obstacles as well as areas of progress
An important tension of relevance to plan rationalisation is the balance between central prescrip... more An important tension of relevance to plan rationalisation is the balance between central prescription-to ensure that central government priorities are addressed locally-and local flexibility-ensuring that the ways in which policies are interpreted and applied are sensitive to local needs. Plan rationalisation tends in the direction of greater local flexibility. 1.4 Content and structure of the report This report focuses on the process evaluation of plan rationalisation and draws together and summarises the findings from all parts of the evaluation. It primarily summarises the outputs from three existing reports, which themselves presented findings from the range of outputs provided by the different strands of the evaluation regarding plan rationalisation 1. These reports are 2 : 1 The section on central government and plan rationalisation is entirely taken from Darlow, A
Bisexuality has been largely ignored by sociologists in recent years. The sociological elision of... more Bisexuality has been largely ignored by sociologists in recent years. The sociological elision of bisexuality is problematic, as it contributes to the social erasure of bisexuals. A sociological reclamation of bisexual ontologies supports a broader movement within the discipline towards critical and nuanced analysis of multifaceted, fragmented, hybridised, and changing sexed and gendered identities. This reclamation is aligned with broader movements aiming to shift sociological thought beyond a Eurocentric and USA-centric sexuality/gender studies that relies on unitary and binary notions of 'male/female', and 'lesbian, gay, heterosexual' (LGH). This paper showcases innovative analysis of bisexuality along the key trajectories of identities, commodification, inequalities, activism, and citizenship. It provides a snapshot of some of the arguments developed in Monros' monograph Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories (Palgrave MacMillan 2015). The book takes...
Since the 1990s, the dominant political discourse of social movements concerned with 'sexual ... more Since the 1990s, the dominant political discourse of social movements concerned with 'sexual politics' has been that of seeking access into mainstream culture through demanding equal rights of citizenship. These citizenship demands have been, at least to a degree, answered via a tranche of recent legislation including the Civil Partnership Act (2004) and the Equality Regulations (Sexual Orientation) 2007, and by associated changes in policy making and practice. However, the shift towards the normalcy of lesbian and gay citizenship has taken place in tandem with the fragmentation of sexual politics and identities. It is possible to argue that the normative citizen is no longer necessarily heterosexual, whilst the non-normative subject is now non-partnered or multiply-partnered, ambiguous in gender identity, or inhabiting social spaces where they are likely to face multiple disadvantage. The sites of 'othering', in which certain groups or individuals are excluded from ...
... all the time&amp;#x27;and the expert says,&amp;#x27;well treat her like a girl, reall... more ... all the time&amp;#x27;and the expert says,&amp;#x27;well treat her like a girl, really reinforce her being like a girl&amp;#x27;so that psychiatry becomes a means of social control,&amp;#x27;we must force the people even harder to build gender walls&amp;#x27; and in actual fact what we should do is to change the walls.(Kate N Ha ...
UK policy makers and practitioners have to address identity categories in a number of ways. Polic... more UK policy makers and practitioners have to address identity categories in a number of ways. Policy documents relating to the statutory sector, for example health and social care, have routinely included performance measurement indicators which address the extent to which the needs of different populations are met by service providers. The raft of equalities-related legislation which has been introduced over the past few years in the UK has driven this agenda, and statutory sector agencies have responded by developing complex mechanisms for assessing the impact of their activities on different social groups. This paper addresses a key debate within intersectionality studies, and scholarship in the field of sexuality and gender; the debate around categorisation and anti-categorisation. It does so via the prism of LGBT equalities initiatives in local government. Local government work forms a useful means of addressing this debate, because policy makers are forced to amalgamate individu...
The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, avail... more The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational or notforprofit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided:
Agency-based approaches to the health of intersex people and those with DSD focus on bodily auton... more Agency-based approaches to the health of intersex people and those with DSD focus on bodily autonomy and the cessation of normalising medical interventions until an under-age person can exercise fully informed choice regarding treatment. Discussions regarding intersex agency and health care can be inspired by the social model of health that emerged from disability theory. However, a purely social model is insufficient to address the harms that has been caused by DSD medical interventions, and the healthcare needs that some intersex people have. Drawing on original empirical research conducted in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, this article explores agency-based approaches to intersex and DSD, incorporating the social model's critique of the pathologisation of bodily diversities, whilst supporting the provision of effective healthcare where needed. The article addresses healthcare deficits and their cultural underpinnings. It identifies key impediments to intersex agency, including body normativity and sex and gender binarism. While there has been slight movement towards an agency-based approach to intersex in some national medical settings in the last ten years, there is still a need for change to the conceptualisation of intersex/DSD and subsequent revisions to healthcare provision.
This think piece provides a critical analysis of the terms Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, a... more This think piece provides a critical analysis of the terms Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) from an international perspective that draws on citizenship studies, providing some indications of the implications for LGBTQ Studies. It outlines difficulties with the LGBTQ acronym in the Global North and South 1. Internationally, scholarship to support the human rights of non-heterosexuals and gender-diverse people is badly needed, but the think piece concludes that it is crucial to consider the social context of different cases, and to address the materialist, cultural, neo-colonial and other forces that effect the formation of non-heterosexual and gender-diverse identities.
Citizenship studies is highly relevant to understanding intersex, variations of sex characteristi... more Citizenship studies is highly relevant to understanding intersex, variations of sex characteristics (VSC), and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD), yet little scholarship exists to date about intersex citizenship. This article outlines and develops the foundations for a distinctive intersex citizenship studies, addressing health citizenship, children's citizenship, legal rights, and breaches of human rights experienced by intersex people and those with DSD. The paper presents original qualitative data from research in the UK, Italy and Switzerland with intersex people and their advocates, medics, and policy stakeholders. It shows that asserting citizenship is crucial for intersex people and those with VSC or DSD. This extremely marginalised population require social, intimate, children's and health citizenship. Intersex citizenship addresses both medical and human rights issues in an integrated way.
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & sub... more This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were foregrounded in order to clarify erotic meanings and extend existing understandings of consensual BDSM. Nine frequent practitioners of consensual BDSM were interviewed; discussing specific accounts of their BDSM experiences. Template analysis was utilised to analyse data, within an interpretive phenomenological framework. Findings illustrated that one of the most important erotic aspects was the co-collaboration between practitioners in order to create, maintain and engage with the erotic fantasy. The unpacking of the complexity of eroticised power exchange that occurred when BDSM practitioners adopted their sexual roles was also an important finding to emerge from the analysis.
The existence of gender variance is widely documented both historically and cross-culturally (Her... more The existence of gender variance is widely documented both historically and cross-culturally (Herdt 1994; Matsuno and Budge, 2017). The term 'gender queer' emerged in the 1990s (see Whittle, 1996). It can be defined as 'any type of trans identity that is not always male or female. It is [also] where people feel they are a mixture of male and female' (Monro, 2005, pp. 13). Genderqueer identities are diverse but share dis-identification with rigid gender binaries and in some cases, a direct challenge to the social institutions that perpetuate binaries (see Yeadon-Lee, 2016; Bradford et al., 2018; Davy, 2018). 'Non-binary' is an umbrella term that includes those whose identity falls outside of or between male and female identities; as a person who can experience both male and female, at different times, or someone who does not experience or want to have a gender identity at all (Matsuno and Budge, 2017). Like genderqueer, non-binary can be traced to the work of transgender and transsexual authors who resisted or transcended gender binaries, for example Bornstein, who stated that 'Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.' (1994, pp. 52). The earliest use of terms referring directly to non-binary seems to be around 2000, for example Haynes and McKenna's collection Unseen Genders: Beyond the Binaries.
The last 20 years has seen an explosion of interest in sexualities studies. The field is rich and... more The last 20 years has seen an explosion of interest in sexualities studies. The field is rich and diverse, including micro-studies situated in specific social contexts (Heath and Goggin, 2009), accounts of practice in particular settings (Saunamaki et al., 2010), organizational sexualities (Hearn and Parkin, 2001), transnational analysis (Binnie, 2004), cultural approaches (Braziel, 2004) and theoretical analysis (Ahmed, 2011; Brickell, 2006). Each academic discipline has developed its own body of sexualities scholarship, for example sociology (Weeks, 2009) and political science (Smith, 2008). Western sexualities scholarship in the 1990s built on social constructionist accounts (Gagnon and Simon, 1973; McIntosh, 1968; Plummer, 1981). Theory continued to develop through the 1990s, including the work of early queer theory scholars such as Sedgwick (1991), and Foucault’s (1976) work was highly influential. The work of second wave feminists (Richardson, 2008) has also been important in the development of the field. Since the 1990s, sexualities studies has been characterized by increasing interdisciplinarity and by the emergence of subdisciplines. As Plummer comments, ‘the generic field of sexualities is now a mass of diversities, with their own scholars and journals’ (personal communication 10 January 2016, cited in Monro et al., 2017a). The broader social context is important in understanding the development of sexualities studies over the last 20 years. There was a normalization of varied sexual identities, specifically lesbian and gay identities, in many parts of the world over the 1990s and early 2000s (see Richardson and Monro, 2012). A related globalized human rights movement to support the rights of those with same-sex desires has emerged, but conflicts concerning sexual identities are also increasingly globalized Sexualities 2018, Vol. 21(8) 1229–1233 ! The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1363460718771348 journals.sagepub.com/home/sex
This article provides a review of sexualities scholarship within the social sciences between 1970... more This article provides a review of sexualities scholarship within the social sciences between 1970 and 2015. It takes an innovative approach by focusing on the way in which bisexuality is addressed in this body of literature. The article reveals the marginalisation, under-representation and invisibility of bisexuality within and across the social sciences in relation to both bisexual experience and identity. Reasons for this varied across the different eras, including the heterosexist nature of the literature, the impact of gay and lesbian-focused identity politics, and queer deconstructionism. In addition, patterns of bisexual erasure and invisibility were uneven, with some scholarship taking inclusive approaches or criticising prejudice against bisexuality. The initial findings of the review were enriched by critical commentary from key relevant sociologists and political scientists. The article concludes that future sexualities scholarship could be enhanced by greater consideratio...
From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal rights, s... more From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal rights, social attitudes towards sexuality and transgender equalities are evolving. This timely text traces shifts at personal, national and international levels to fully assess the landscape of policy and theory today. Bringing together critical perspectives and original research, Sexuality, Equality and Diversity clearly outlines contested terms and key debates in the field. It explains how equality policy is developed and put into practice, examining what has been achieved by legislation so far and highlighting the challenges to overcome. Exploring the multiple identities and different agendas of various LGBT communities, this thought-provoking book draws on a range of rich examples to shed new light on sexual citizenship today. This is an invaluable guide through the complex terrain of equality and diversity, and is invaluable reading for students of sociology, social policy, gender studies and politics.
This is a qualitative data collection.<br> <br> This research comprised a study of le... more This is a qualitative data collection.<br> <br> This research comprised a study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities work amongst local authorities which was conducted between March 2008 and September 2009. The field of LGBT equalities work at that time was undergoing a period of rapid change, following the abolishment of Section 28 and fuelled by the introduction of a range of new legislation as well as on-going local government modernisation. This project builds on existing research by exploring the impact of the changing policy environment on LGBT equalities initiatives amongst local authorities and their partner agencies. The research used and developed innovative qualitative Action Learning Set methodologies and interviews with local and national stakeholders. <br> <br> The aims of the project were: to examine the impact of recent policy changes on the field of LGBT equalities work in local government; to address key conceptual iss...
Aims of this talk: To look at homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in the context of UK local go... more Aims of this talk: To look at homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in the context of UK local government work To focus on the processes and practices taking place regarding the implementation of public policies To identify obstacles as well as areas of progress
An important tension of relevance to plan rationalisation is the balance between central prescrip... more An important tension of relevance to plan rationalisation is the balance between central prescription-to ensure that central government priorities are addressed locally-and local flexibility-ensuring that the ways in which policies are interpreted and applied are sensitive to local needs. Plan rationalisation tends in the direction of greater local flexibility. 1.4 Content and structure of the report This report focuses on the process evaluation of plan rationalisation and draws together and summarises the findings from all parts of the evaluation. It primarily summarises the outputs from three existing reports, which themselves presented findings from the range of outputs provided by the different strands of the evaluation regarding plan rationalisation 1. These reports are 2 : 1 The section on central government and plan rationalisation is entirely taken from Darlow, A
Bisexuality has been largely ignored by sociologists in recent years. The sociological elision of... more Bisexuality has been largely ignored by sociologists in recent years. The sociological elision of bisexuality is problematic, as it contributes to the social erasure of bisexuals. A sociological reclamation of bisexual ontologies supports a broader movement within the discipline towards critical and nuanced analysis of multifaceted, fragmented, hybridised, and changing sexed and gendered identities. This reclamation is aligned with broader movements aiming to shift sociological thought beyond a Eurocentric and USA-centric sexuality/gender studies that relies on unitary and binary notions of 'male/female', and 'lesbian, gay, heterosexual' (LGH). This paper showcases innovative analysis of bisexuality along the key trajectories of identities, commodification, inequalities, activism, and citizenship. It provides a snapshot of some of the arguments developed in Monros' monograph Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories (Palgrave MacMillan 2015). The book takes...
Since the 1990s, the dominant political discourse of social movements concerned with 'sexual ... more Since the 1990s, the dominant political discourse of social movements concerned with 'sexual politics' has been that of seeking access into mainstream culture through demanding equal rights of citizenship. These citizenship demands have been, at least to a degree, answered via a tranche of recent legislation including the Civil Partnership Act (2004) and the Equality Regulations (Sexual Orientation) 2007, and by associated changes in policy making and practice. However, the shift towards the normalcy of lesbian and gay citizenship has taken place in tandem with the fragmentation of sexual politics and identities. It is possible to argue that the normative citizen is no longer necessarily heterosexual, whilst the non-normative subject is now non-partnered or multiply-partnered, ambiguous in gender identity, or inhabiting social spaces where they are likely to face multiple disadvantage. The sites of 'othering', in which certain groups or individuals are excluded from ...
... all the time&amp;#x27;and the expert says,&amp;#x27;well treat her like a girl, reall... more ... all the time&amp;#x27;and the expert says,&amp;#x27;well treat her like a girl, really reinforce her being like a girl&amp;#x27;so that psychiatry becomes a means of social control,&amp;#x27;we must force the people even harder to build gender walls&amp;#x27; and in actual fact what we should do is to change the walls.(Kate N Ha ...
UK policy makers and practitioners have to address identity categories in a number of ways. Polic... more UK policy makers and practitioners have to address identity categories in a number of ways. Policy documents relating to the statutory sector, for example health and social care, have routinely included performance measurement indicators which address the extent to which the needs of different populations are met by service providers. The raft of equalities-related legislation which has been introduced over the past few years in the UK has driven this agenda, and statutory sector agencies have responded by developing complex mechanisms for assessing the impact of their activities on different social groups. This paper addresses a key debate within intersectionality studies, and scholarship in the field of sexuality and gender; the debate around categorisation and anti-categorisation. It does so via the prism of LGBT equalities initiatives in local government. Local government work forms a useful means of addressing this debate, because policy makers are forced to amalgamate individu...
The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, avail... more The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational or notforprofit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided:
Agency-based approaches to the health of intersex people and those with DSD focus on bodily auton... more Agency-based approaches to the health of intersex people and those with DSD focus on bodily autonomy and the cessation of normalising medical interventions until an under-age person can exercise fully informed choice regarding treatment. Discussions regarding intersex agency and health care can be inspired by the social model of health that emerged from disability theory. However, a purely social model is insufficient to address the harms that has been caused by DSD medical interventions, and the healthcare needs that some intersex people have. Drawing on original empirical research conducted in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, this article explores agency-based approaches to intersex and DSD, incorporating the social model's critique of the pathologisation of bodily diversities, whilst supporting the provision of effective healthcare where needed. The article addresses healthcare deficits and their cultural underpinnings. It identifies key impediments to intersex agency, including body normativity and sex and gender binarism. While there has been slight movement towards an agency-based approach to intersex in some national medical settings in the last ten years, there is still a need for change to the conceptualisation of intersex/DSD and subsequent revisions to healthcare provision.
This think piece provides a critical analysis of the terms Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, a... more This think piece provides a critical analysis of the terms Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) from an international perspective that draws on citizenship studies, providing some indications of the implications for LGBTQ Studies. It outlines difficulties with the LGBTQ acronym in the Global North and South 1. Internationally, scholarship to support the human rights of non-heterosexuals and gender-diverse people is badly needed, but the think piece concludes that it is crucial to consider the social context of different cases, and to address the materialist, cultural, neo-colonial and other forces that effect the formation of non-heterosexual and gender-diverse identities.
Citizenship studies is highly relevant to understanding intersex, variations of sex characteristi... more Citizenship studies is highly relevant to understanding intersex, variations of sex characteristics (VSC), and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD), yet little scholarship exists to date about intersex citizenship. This article outlines and develops the foundations for a distinctive intersex citizenship studies, addressing health citizenship, children's citizenship, legal rights, and breaches of human rights experienced by intersex people and those with DSD. The paper presents original qualitative data from research in the UK, Italy and Switzerland with intersex people and their advocates, medics, and policy stakeholders. It shows that asserting citizenship is crucial for intersex people and those with VSC or DSD. This extremely marginalised population require social, intimate, children's and health citizenship. Intersex citizenship addresses both medical and human rights issues in an integrated way.
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & sub... more This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were foregrounded in order to clarify erotic meanings and extend existing understandings of consensual BDSM. Nine frequent practitioners of consensual BDSM were interviewed; discussing specific accounts of their BDSM experiences. Template analysis was utilised to analyse data, within an interpretive phenomenological framework. Findings illustrated that one of the most important erotic aspects was the co-collaboration between practitioners in order to create, maintain and engage with the erotic fantasy. The unpacking of the complexity of eroticised power exchange that occurred when BDSM practitioners adopted their sexual roles was also an important finding to emerge from the analysis.
The existence of gender variance is widely documented both historically and cross-culturally (Her... more The existence of gender variance is widely documented both historically and cross-culturally (Herdt 1994; Matsuno and Budge, 2017). The term 'gender queer' emerged in the 1990s (see Whittle, 1996). It can be defined as 'any type of trans identity that is not always male or female. It is [also] where people feel they are a mixture of male and female' (Monro, 2005, pp. 13). Genderqueer identities are diverse but share dis-identification with rigid gender binaries and in some cases, a direct challenge to the social institutions that perpetuate binaries (see Yeadon-Lee, 2016; Bradford et al., 2018; Davy, 2018). 'Non-binary' is an umbrella term that includes those whose identity falls outside of or between male and female identities; as a person who can experience both male and female, at different times, or someone who does not experience or want to have a gender identity at all (Matsuno and Budge, 2017). Like genderqueer, non-binary can be traced to the work of transgender and transsexual authors who resisted or transcended gender binaries, for example Bornstein, who stated that 'Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.' (1994, pp. 52). The earliest use of terms referring directly to non-binary seems to be around 2000, for example Haynes and McKenna's collection Unseen Genders: Beyond the Binaries.
The last 20 years has seen an explosion of interest in sexualities studies. The field is rich and... more The last 20 years has seen an explosion of interest in sexualities studies. The field is rich and diverse, including micro-studies situated in specific social contexts (Heath and Goggin, 2009), accounts of practice in particular settings (Saunamaki et al., 2010), organizational sexualities (Hearn and Parkin, 2001), transnational analysis (Binnie, 2004), cultural approaches (Braziel, 2004) and theoretical analysis (Ahmed, 2011; Brickell, 2006). Each academic discipline has developed its own body of sexualities scholarship, for example sociology (Weeks, 2009) and political science (Smith, 2008). Western sexualities scholarship in the 1990s built on social constructionist accounts (Gagnon and Simon, 1973; McIntosh, 1968; Plummer, 1981). Theory continued to develop through the 1990s, including the work of early queer theory scholars such as Sedgwick (1991), and Foucault’s (1976) work was highly influential. The work of second wave feminists (Richardson, 2008) has also been important in the development of the field. Since the 1990s, sexualities studies has been characterized by increasing interdisciplinarity and by the emergence of subdisciplines. As Plummer comments, ‘the generic field of sexualities is now a mass of diversities, with their own scholars and journals’ (personal communication 10 January 2016, cited in Monro et al., 2017a). The broader social context is important in understanding the development of sexualities studies over the last 20 years. There was a normalization of varied sexual identities, specifically lesbian and gay identities, in many parts of the world over the 1990s and early 2000s (see Richardson and Monro, 2012). A related globalized human rights movement to support the rights of those with same-sex desires has emerged, but conflicts concerning sexual identities are also increasingly globalized Sexualities 2018, Vol. 21(8) 1229–1233 ! The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1363460718771348 journals.sagepub.com/home/sex
This article provides a review of sexualities scholarship within the social sciences between 1970... more This article provides a review of sexualities scholarship within the social sciences between 1970 and 2015. It takes an innovative approach by focusing on the way in which bisexuality is addressed in this body of literature. The article reveals the marginalisation, under-representation and invisibility of bisexuality within and across the social sciences in relation to both bisexual experience and identity. Reasons for this varied across the different eras, including the heterosexist nature of the literature, the impact of gay and lesbian-focused identity politics, and queer deconstructionism. In addition, patterns of bisexual erasure and invisibility were uneven, with some scholarship taking inclusive approaches or criticising prejudice against bisexuality. The initial findings of the review were enriched by critical commentary from key relevant sociologists and political scientists. The article concludes that future sexualities scholarship could be enhanced by greater consideratio...
From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal rights, s... more From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal rights, social attitudes towards sexuality and transgender equalities are evolving. This timely text traces shifts at personal, national and international levels to fully assess the landscape of policy and theory today. Bringing together critical perspectives and original research, Sexuality, Equality and Diversity clearly outlines contested terms and key debates in the field. It explains how equality policy is developed and put into practice, examining what has been achieved by legislation so far and highlighting the challenges to overcome. Exploring the multiple identities and different agendas of various LGBT communities, this thought-provoking book draws on a range of rich examples to shed new light on sexual citizenship today. This is an invaluable guide through the complex terrain of equality and diversity, and is invaluable reading for students of sociology, social policy, gender studies and politics.
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