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On Sexuality and Power / Alan Sinfield.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay StudiesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231134095
  • 9780231508667
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.766 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ76 .S564 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Taxonomies -- 3. Fantasy -- 4. Power -- 5. Gender -- 6. Age -- 7. Class -- 8. Race -- 9. Fiction -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231508667

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Taxonomies -- 3. Fantasy -- 4. Power -- 5. Gender -- 6. Age -- 7. Class -- 8. Race -- 9. Fiction -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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