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The Contested Global Politics of Pleasure and Danger: Sexuality, Gender,
Health and Human Rights

   Global Public Health invites the submission of full-length articles for
   a special journal issue on The Contested Global Politics of Pleasure
   and Danger: Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights.

   As the field of global health has evolved in the 21st century, issues
   related to sexuality, gender, health and human rights have become
   increasing visible, highly contested, and when comparing across global
   regions even contradictory. What have increasingly been described as
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   reaction and resistance, activism and advocacy. The recent return of
   religious fervor and political extremism on a global scale has again
   drawn attention sexuality and gender as key political battlegrounds at
   the intersection of the fields of global health and human rights.
   Paradoxically, both pleasure and danger have become central topics for
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   limited to:
    1. Studies of the deployment of human rights approaches in relation to
       sexuality, gender and health
    2. Empirical studies that explore the role of solidarity, love, care
       and emotion in shaping social movements, policies and programs
       related to sexuality, gender, health and human rights
    3. Critical analytical and historic framing of current struggles for
       sexual and reproductive health rights
    4. Empirical studies of social movement and other resistance
       organizing (from both progressive and conservative perspectives)
       around issues related to sexuality, gender, health and rights
    5. Analyses of the ways in which criminalization and criminal justice
       systems have been deployed in relation to issues as diverse as HIV
       transmission, homophobia, transphobia, sex work and trafficking and
       reproduction
    6. Examinations of sexuality and gender in relation to both forced and
       voluntary migration and the health of immigrants, refugees and
       displaced persons