On Sexuality and Power Paperback / softback
by Alan Sinfield
Part of the Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay fiction and cinema are often organized around this assumption.
Nonetheless, power differentials are remarkably persistent-as well as sexy.
What are the personal and political implications of this insight? Sinfield argues that hierarchies in interpersonal relations are continuous with the main power differentials of our social and political life (gender, class, age, and race); therefore it is not surprising that they govern our psychic lives.
Recent writing enables an exploration of their positive potential, especially in fantasy, as well as their danger. On Sexuality and Power focuses on the writing of the last thirty years, revisiting also Whitman, Wilde, Mann, Forster, and Genet, and reassessing the very idea of a gay canon.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2004
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- ISBN:9780231134095
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780231134095
