Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-206) and index.

chapter Introduction: Development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities / AMY LIND -- part Part I Querying/queering development: Theories, representations, strategies -- chapter 1 Why the development industry should get over its obsession with bad sex and start to think about pleasure / SUSIE JOLLY -- chapter 2 Transgendering development: Reframing hijras and development / JYOTI PURI -- chapter 3 Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: Household models reconsidered / SUZANNE BERGERON -- part Part II Negotiating heteronormativity in development institutions -- chapter 4 The World Bank's GLOBE: Queers in/queering development / ANDIL GOSINE -- chapter 5 NGOs as erotic sites / ARA WILSON -- chapter 6 Promoting exports, restructuring love: The World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry / KATE BEDFORD -- chapter 7 "Headless families" and "detoured men": Off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia / SUSAN PAULSON -- part Part III Resisting global hegemonies, struggling for sexual rights and gender justice -- chapter 8 Spelling it out: From alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice / SANGEETA B UDHIRAJA, SUSANA T. FRIED AND -- chapter 9 Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: Supporting gender transgression as a development strategy / PETRA DOAN -- chapter 10 Behind the Mask: Developing LGBTI visibility in Africa / ASHLEY CUR RIER -- chapter 11 Queer Dominican moves: In the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses / MAJA HORN.