Sexual/Liberation Paperback / softback
by Michael G. Cronin
Paperback / softback
Description
Sexual/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland.
It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form of sexual liberation beyond the present objective of achieving equality within a grossly unequal social order.
Centrally, the book offers a critical meditation on images of gay men circulating in post-marriage equality Irish culture.
Such images tell us little about the actual lives of gay men but offer us considerable insight into the political imaginary - the values, norms, anxieties and contradictions - of the society in which those images circulate.
The images of gay men, male bodies and male intimacy discussed are drawn from varied sources: Leo Varadkar's media profile; digital portraits curated by men engaged in sex work; Irish Queer Archives; media, scholarly and artistic commemorations of Declan Flynn and Roger Casement; Joe Caslin's murals.
Taking inspiration from the ideas of Wendy Brown, Judith Butler and Herbert Marcuse, Sexual/Liberation encourages us to re-think the political as sexual - to reflect on how our political perspectives are shaped by desires, needs, vulnerabilities and hopes.
Above all, this book challenges us to move beyond a politics of identities and injuries and strive instead for a politics universal and radically humanist in its imaginative scope, anti-capitalist and revolutionary in its objectives.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:166 pages
- Publisher:Cork University Press
- Publication Date:07/10/2022
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- ISBN:9781782055235
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:166 pages
- Publisher:Cork University Press
- Publication Date:07/10/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781782055235
