Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs A Multidisciplinary Approach

Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries. While acknowledging the importance of these goals, contributors unpack the exclusion of marginalized genders and sexualities as well as how popular media and social media contribute to the wider understanding of issues of gender and sexuality and the SDGs. This volume also dispels assumptions about the irrelevance of SDGs to countries in the West, with a particular focus on the UK. Chapters examine a variety of topics including: HIV/AIDS, sex work, global migration, climate change and environmental sustainability, poverty, education, and sexual harassment.

This collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students across Sociology,Gender & Sexuality Studies, Education, Development Studies and Sustainability Studies.

1: Sustainable Development Goals: Reduced inequalities.- 2: Have we left behind the rainbow warriors? The climate emergency and its impact on global sexual and gender minorities.- 3: HIV/AIDS in the UK. 4: (In)decent work for all? – How decriminalisation of sex work is crucial to achieving the SDGs.- 5: Relating Sustainable Development Goals to marginalised genders. Are they adequate?- 6: "Developed": Administrative Violence in Sexual Diversity Asylum Claims at the Home Office. 7: Men and boys: the missing culprits or victims in the SDGs?- 8: Vegansexuality: Troubling gender and sexuality norms to combat climate change.- 9: Challenging child poverty in the British education system.- 10: Child marriage in Nepal.- 11: Problematising Gender Based Harassment in the UK Higher Education workforce.- 12: Body shaming and hate comments on Instagram. 13: Agency for all? A critical understanding of the penalties of going against gendered expectations.- 14: The women of Poldark: investigating the representations of femininity over time.

Drew Dalton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK as well as Chair and Founder of ReportOUT, a global human rights charity for sexual and gender minorities. He has published work on the sociological implications of austerity, focusing on HIV/AIDS, stigma, and medicalization. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Queer Guide to Human Rights.

Angela Smith is Professor of Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland, UK. She has published widely in the area of gender, media discourse and politeness theory. She is co-editor of the Bloomsbury Library of Gender in Popular Culture and editor of Gender Equality in Changing Times (Palgrave, 2020).