On Sexuality and Power / / Alan Sinfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sinfield, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Taxonomies --; 3. Fantasy --; 4. Power --; 5. Gender --; 6. Age --; 7. Class --; 8. Race --; 9. Fiction --; Notes --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231508667; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/sinf13408
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alan Sinfield.

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.