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

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...

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Superior document:At the interface/Probing the boundaries, 36
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (299 p.)
Notes:
  • "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."--P. [xii].
  • "A volume within the 'Sex and Sexuality: Exploring Critical Issues' project."--P. [ix].
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 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 / Kateřina Lišková
  • On the Road to Equality? Gender, Sexuality and Race in Sociological Meta-Narratives on the Transformation of Intimacy / Christian Klesse
  • Love at a Distance: Kafka and the Sirens / Ruth Martin
  • In the Company of Friends: Insights into Gay Men’s Friendships 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
  • Notes on Contributors.