Boyce, Paul and Coyle, Daniel (2013) Development, discourse and law: transgender and same-sex sexualities in Nepal. Project Report. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK.

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Abstract

This report presents research conducted in Nepal between November 2012 and January 2013 aimed at exploring the legal, social and economic context pertaining to sexual and gender minority rights.

The research explored recent legal reform in Nepal, the wider socioeconomic and social context of legal reform, and included work with sexual and gender minority persons, aimed at understanding their life experiences.

Findings of the research emphasise complex connections between law, social context and sexual subjectivity. There is dissonance in Nepal between a progressive legislative environment in respect of gender and sexual minority issues and everyday sociocultural ambivalence toward such sexual and gender minority persons. Such persons may suffer from explicit prejudice, lack of economic opportunity and familial rejection. Other forms of marginalisation may be more tacit, but nonetheless profoundly significant.

Item Type:	Reports and working papers (Project Report)
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > Anthropology
Depositing User:	Sharon Krummel
Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2017 11:27
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2017 11:29
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/69733

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