The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond
Queer Politics And Beyond
- Editore:
BLACKWELL PUBL
- EAN:
9780745616537
- ISBN:
0745616534
- Pagine:
- 184
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond
The notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie critically explore the notion of sexual citizenship as a way to think through the ever-changing political, legal, social and cultural landscapes of sexuality. The book examines sexual citizenship in a number of key sites of contemporary sexual politics (the market, marriage, the military, the city, the family) and focuses on a number of key theoretical debates on sexuality in relation to consumption, space and globalization. Critiquing existing theories of sexuality and citizenship, and drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, The Sexual Citizen addresses both the promises and limitations of using the discourses of citizenship in the context of contemporary sexual politics.