Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States / / Guillaume Marche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Marche, Guillaume,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Protest and Social Movements ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe and North America are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. This book focuses on the transformations of the United States' LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have not led to an increase in militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors' mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Of Homosexualities and Movements -- 3. From Fragmentation to Coalescence -- 4. Sexual Fulfillment and Political Disenchantment -- 5. Sexuality and Empowerment -- 6. Mobilization on the Threshold of the Political -- 7. Conclusion: Toward New Identity Forms -- The Interviewees -- References -- Index