Political intersections between HIV/AIDS, sexuality and human rights: a history of resistance to the anti-sodomy law in India.
Political intersections between HIV/AIDS, sexuality and human rights: a history of resistance to the anti-sodomy law in India.
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10.1080/17441690801990655
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Ramasubban, R
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作者：
Ramasubban, R
印度的艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病对国家和社会都提出了前所未有的挑战，对现行的父权制性别关系和异性恋规范构成了质疑。对这一挑战的回应不是来自政治和社会主流，而是来自被定罪的“边缘”：另类性取向的人，他们发起了一场斗争，要求改革反鸡奸法，即印度刑法第377条。本文记录了这一运动的历史，并确定了多个国家和全球层面的文化，政治和经济因素，塑造了它。法律改革运动是一种无价的工具，可以动员不同的另类性群体围绕一个共同的战略，从而将他们锻造成一个脆弱的国家级“社区”。然而，在性权利的方向上超越法律改革，需要更广泛的团体联盟，以及一个基础广泛的全民性权利政治议程。这个议程必须批判父权制、占主导地位的男性主义和性暴力；这些力量共同支配着女性的从属地位和对另类性行为的压制。
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in India has posed unprecedented challenges to both state and society, to question prevailing constructions of patriarchal gender relations and heteronormativity. Response to the challenge has come not from the political and social mainstream but from the criminalised "margins": people of alternative sexualities, who have launched a struggle for reform of the anti-sodomy law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. This article documents the history of this movement, and identifies the multiple national and global-level cultural, political, and economic strands, shaping it. The legal reform movement has been invaluable as a tool to mobilise disparate alternative sexualities groups around a common strategy, thereby forging them into a tenuous national-level "community". Going beyond legal reform in the direction of sexual rights, however, requires a broader coalition of groups, and a broad-based political agenda of sexual rights for all. This agenda must critique patriarchy, dominant masculinity, and sexual violence; forces that together govern both the subordination of women and repression of alternative sexualities.