Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities

ISBN-13: 9780415058001 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 368 str.

David T. Evans;Evans David; David Evans

Opis

Sexual Citizenship argues that analyses of social construction of sexualities have tended to ignore the material contexts in which gender construction occurs. The main negative effect of this is that the sexual has been detached from mainstream power relations and interests. Building upon Foucauldian and interactionist perspectives, David Evans maintains that the progressive sexualization of modern capitalist societies is primarily shaped by the complex inter-related material interests of market and state. The inherent individualism and amoralism of the consumerist market inevitably leads to the commodification of that which is most personal, private, individual and natural. Capitalism encourages us to purchase our sexual identities and lifestyles and impels us to conclude that we are right to do so. In response the state is not a passive actor. It neither simply resists or retreats. Rather it concedes relative and partial rights to deviant sexual minorities, investing them with particular, limited forms of gender/consumer power ie sexual citizenship.

Recenzje

'... a highly intelligent critique of the interraction of modern sexual identities with the state and market forces ...' - New Statesman and Society

'... surely the most important study in gay modern social theory and history since Jeffrey Weeks' Coming Out ... ISexual Citizenship is beautifully lucid, combining politics, theory and recent history; scholarship and speculation. Customary topics are reassessed, always astutely (constructionism, reformism, camp, bisexuality, transvestism), andthere is a specially interesting chapter on sex/gender hierarchies in the labour market.' - Alan Sinfield, Gay Times

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 SEXUALITY AS DISCOURSE AND SCRIPT; Chapter 2 SEXUAL RIGHTS AND COMMODITIES; Chapter 3 THE ‘PERMISSIVE’ WATERSHED; Chapter 4 HOMOSEXUAL CITIZENSHIP: ECONOMIC RIGHTS…; Chapter 5 AND POLITICAL OBLIGATIONS; Chapter 6 DUAL CITIZENSHIP?; Chapter 7 TRANS-CITIZENSHIP; Chapter 8 EMBRYONIC SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP; Chapter 9 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE;

O autorze

David T.Evans lectures in Sociology at the University of Glasgow.