COSMOPOLITAN SEXUALITIES:
A SELECT READING LIST
more detailed reading lists on selected aspects marked with an * can be found on the web site
*On Critical Humanism
Hannah Arendt The Human Condition (1958)
George Herbert Mead Mind, Self and Society (1933)
Hans Joas The Sacredness of the Person (2013)
Bryan S Turner Human Rights and Vulnerability (2006)
Bruce Mazlish The Idea of Humanity in a Global Era (2009)
On Cosmopolitanism
Gerard Delanty The Cosmopolitan Imagination (2009)
Robert Fine Cosmopolitanism (2007)
Gerard Delanty ed The Routledge Handbook of Cosmpolitanism (2012)
Nira Yuval-Davis The Politics of Belonging (2011)
Stan Van Hooft Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (2009)
*On Global Sexual Politics
Richard Parker at al Sex Politics: Reports from the Front Lines ( 2010)
Sonia Correa, Rosalind Petchesky & Peter Aggleton Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008)
Peter Aggleton & Richard Parker Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights (2010)
Rosalind Petchesky, Global Prescriptions : Gendering Health and Human rights (2003)
Jon Binnie The Globalization of Sexuality (2004)
Julian C.H. Lee Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society and the State (2011)
Corrine Lennox & Matthew Waites Human Rights, Sexual Orioentation & Gender Identity in the Commonwealth (2013)
François Girard “Negotiating Sexual Rights and Sexual Orientation at the UN’ In Richard Parker at al Sex Politics: Reports from the Front Line e book
*On Complex and Mutliple Hybridic Cultures
Seyla Benhabib The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (2002)
Peter Burke Cultural Hybridty (2009)
Kwame Anthony Appiah The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010)
Mukhtar Mai In the Name of Honour (2007)
*On Diverse Sexual Cultures: An Opening Sample
Sylvia Tamale African Sexualities: A Reader (2011)
Peter Aggleton, Paul Boyce, Henrietta L Moore and Richard Parker Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers (2012)
Padilla, Mark.B. et al Love and Globalization (2007)
Parker, Richard Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil 1999 Routledge
Epprecht, Marc Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa (2013)
Kong, Travis Male Homosexualities in China (2010)
Vanita, Ruth Love’s Rite: Same-sex marriage in India and the West (2005)
*On Conflicting Diverse Sexual Cultures
Lila Abu-Lughod Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2011) Harvard
Momin Rahman Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity (2014) Palgrave
Carole S Vance Pleasure and Danger (1984)/ Andrea Dworkin Pornography (1981)
Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter Sex Wars 2nd ed
Ratna Kapur Erotic Justice (2005)
Patricia Elliot Debates in Transgender, Queer and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites (2010)
J. Jack Halberstam Gaga Feminism : Sex, Gender and the End of Normal (2012)
Joseph A Massad Desiring Arabs (2008)
Jasbir K Puar Terrorist Assemblages : Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)
See also: Amoz Oz How to cure a fanatic (2004/2012)
On the Need for Empathy in Cosmopolitanism
Michael Slote The Ethics of Care and Empathy(2007)
Fonna Forman-Barzilai Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory (2010)
Simon Baron- Cohen Zero Degrees of Empathy ( 2011)
Jeremy Rifkin The Empathic Civilization (2009)
On Religions and their values
Martha Nussbaum The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (2012)
Ulrich Beck A God of One’s Own: Religion’s Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence (2010) Polity
Peter Berger The Descularization of the World 1999 Washington
Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart Sacred and Secular: Religion and World Politics (2011 2nd ed) Cambridge
————————– Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change around the world (2003) Cambridge
On the Problem of Inequalities
Piketty, Thomas Capital (2014)
Teunis, Niels & Gil Herdt Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice (2007) Routledge
Goran Therborn Inequalities of the World 2006 Verso
Sylvia Walby Globalization and Inequalities (2009) Sage
Ken Plummer ‘Intimate Citizenship in an Unjust World’ in The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities edited by Mary Romero & Judith Howard (Blackwell, 2005 : Ch 4 p75-99)
On Common Grounds
Dialogic Ethics and the search for Common Grounds
Bakhtin, Michel The Dialogic Imagination
Arendt , Hannah The Human Condition
Habermas, Jurgen Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1992) Polity
Ronald C. Arnett et al Communication, Ethics, Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. 2009
Frank, Arthur Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology (2010) Sage
Ken Plummer Intimate Citizenship (2003) Washington
Common Grounds: Global Ethics
Stan Van Hooft Cosmopolitan: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (2009)
Heather Widdows Global Ethics: An Introduction (2011)
Rodrique Tremblay The Code for Global Ethics: Toward a Humanist Civilization (2009)
Common Grounds: On Rights and Sexual Rights
Kay Schafer & Sidonie Smith Human Rights and Narrated Lives (2004) Palgrave
Micheline R Ishay The History of Human Rights: From ancient times to the globalization era (2004)
—————— The Human Rights Reader ( 2nd ed 2007 Routledge)
Bryan S Turner (2006) Human Rights and Vulnerability
Rosalind Petchesky ‘Sexual Rights: Inventing a Concept, Mapping an International Practice’. In Richard Parker et al eds Framing the Sexual Subject: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Power (2000) California
Sonia Correa, Rosalind Petchesky & Peter Aggleton Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008) Paul Hunt and Judith Beno de Mesquita ( Essex) The Rights to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Access on http://www.essex.ac.uk/human_rights_centre/research/rth/docs/TheRightsToSexualHealth.pdf
Ken Plummer ‘Rights Work: constructing lesbian, gay and sexual rights in late modern times’ Rights ed Lydia Morris. (Routledge: 2006: Ch 8 p152-167).
Vanessa Baird Sex, Love and Homophobia. 2004. Amnesty International.
Stephen Hopgood The End Times of Human Rights (2013)
Lawrence Friedman The Human Rights Culture (2011)
Anthony Woodiwiss Human Rights (2005) Routledge
Fagan, Andrew The Atlas of Human Rights 2010 Myriad
Morris, Lydia ed Rights: Sociological Perspectives 2006 Routledge
Lukes, Steven ‘Five Fables About Human Rights’ in On Human Rights ed Stephen Shute
Common Grounds: On capabilities
The work of Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum Creating Capabilities (2011) Harvard
Cultivating Humanity. (1997) Harvard
Martha Nussbaum Women and human development (2000) Cambridge. Chapter1
Martha Nussbaum From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law (2010)
Amrita Chhachhi & Howard Nicholas “Forum 2006”, in Development and Change (2006) Vol 37, No6 especially article by Nussbaum who replies to the debates.
For an interview with her, see Conversations with History: Martha Nussbaum on the Youtube at
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3YTzYjut4
Special issues of the journal Signs: Globalization and Gender, Vol 26, No 4 (2001)
and for a textbook on the whole tradition, see:
Sevrine Deneulin et al An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency (2009) Earthscan
Common Grounds: Justice
Amartya Sen The Idea of Justice (2009) Allen Lane.
Michael Sandel Justice: What’s the right thing to do? (2007/2009) Penguin
Iris Marion Young Justice and the politics of difference (1990) Princeton
Nancy Fraser ‘From Redistribution to Recognition: Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-socialist’ Age’. in Nancy Fraser. Justice Interruptus (1997: Chapter 1)
———— The Scales of Justice.
On The Inevitability of Disappointment and the Importance of Hope
Jeffrey Weeks The World We Have Won ( 2007)
Ernest Bloch The Principle of Hope (1938-47)
Ruth Levitas Utopia as Method (2014)
Sara Ahmed The Promise of Happiness (2010)
Roger Scruton The Used of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope (2010)
Ian Craib The Importance of Disappointment (1994)
Eric Olin Wright Envisioning Real Utopias ( 2010)