On Sexuality and Power

By:

Alan Sinfield

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

Alan Sinfield teaches in the English Department at Sussex University. He is the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century and The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment, among other books. He lives in Brighton, UK.

Release date Australia

December 22nd, 2004

Author

Alan Sinfield

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

224

Series

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

Dimensions

164x231x13

ISBN-13

9780231134095

Product ID

2431741

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