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On Sexuality and Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231134095)
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xIt 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: Alan Sinfield
ISBN-10: 0231134096
ISBN-13: 9780231134095
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.26w x 0.52d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2005 pg. 1591
By Alan Sinfield
xAlan 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
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