TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinfield,Alan
TI  - On Sexuality and Power
T2  - Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
SN  - 9780231134095
AV  - HQ76 .S564 2012
U1  - 306.766 23
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Gays in literature
KW  - Male homosexuality
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Sex (Psychology)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Taxonomies --; 3. Fantasy --; 4. Power --; 5. Gender --; 6. Age --; 7. Class --; 8. Race --; 9. Fiction --; Notes --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/sinf13408
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231508667
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231508667/original
ER  -