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Sexual politics of desire and belonging / edited by Nick Rumens & Alejandro Cervantes-Carson.

Author/creator Global Conference on Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality 2005 : Vienna, Austria)
Other author/creatorRumens, Nick.
Other author/creatorCervantes C., A. (Alejandro Cervantes Carson)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Descriptionxxiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series At the interface/Probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; v. 36
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 36. 1570-7113 ^A586944
Contents Sexual politics of desire and belonging: an introduction / Nick Rumens -- Sexual citizenship in international context: towards a comparative intersectional analysis of social regulation / Nancy A. Naples -- Everything would be solved if only we could marry:" queer marriages and U.S. immigration policy / Katie L. Acosta -- Pornography as language: from discourse of domination to heretical subversion / Katerina Liskova -- On the road to equality? gender, sexuality and race in sociological meta-narratives on transformation of intimacy / Christian Klesse -- Love at distance: Kafka and the sirens / Ruth Martin -- In the company of friends: insights into gay men's friendship at work / Nick Rumens -- Queer tensions: the cultural politics of belonging and exclusion in same gender marriage debates / Jodi O'Brien -- Ethical sluts and closet polyamorists: dissident eroticism, abject subjects and the normative cycle in self-help books on free love / Serena Petrella -- There is no sexual relation / Fiona Peters -- Eroticism, postfeminist melancholia and the cross-generational romance / Diane Negra -- Re-occupying the erotic body: the paintings and "performance" of Pauline Boty, British pop artist (1938-66) / Sue Tate -- Sexuality in extremity: trauma literature, violence and counter-erotics / Marie-Luise Kohlke -- Reading for monsters: transgressive corporeality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Jules Sturm.
Review "Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory."--BOOK JACKET.
General note"The Second Global Conference on Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality, held in Vienna, Austria, in December 2005, from which these selected essays are drawn."--Page [xii].
General note"A volume within the 'Sex and Sexuality: Exploring Critical Issues' project."--Page [ix].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018278347
ISBN9789042022393
ISBN9042022396

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