Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic

ISBN-13: 9781138457621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Judith Butler

Opis

The author argues contemporary culture is in an "age of epidemic"; AIDS has provoked discussion of the disease but also seen a growth in sites of erotic danger. She traces the effects of epidemic on the intensification and augmentation of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality.

Spis treści

Introduction Editor's Introduction; Part I Erotic Welfare; Chapter 1 Author's Introduction; Chapter 2 Sex and the Logic of Late Capitalism; Chapter 3 Disciplining Pleasures; Chapter 4 Regulating Women in the Age of Sexual Epidemic; Chapter 5 Reproductive Regulations in the Age of Sexual Epidemic; Chapter 6 Hospitalization and AIDS; Part II Selected Writings; Chapter II_1 Bodies-Pleasures-Powers; Chapter II_2 Interpretation and Retrieval: Rereading Beauvoir; Chapter II_3 True Confessions: Cixous and Foucault on Sexuality and Power; Chapter II_4 Defusing the Canon: Feminist Rereading and Textual Politics; Chapter II_5 Just Say No: Repression, Anti-Sex, and the New Film; Chapter II_6 Feminism and Postmodernism;

O autorze

Linda Singer