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Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities
Author(s): David Evans (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 13 May 1993
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 364 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415058007
- ISBN-13: 9780415058001
Book Description
This enthralling and provocative book provides a new grounding for the understanding of sexual rights. It argues that all varieties of sexuality under capitalism are materially constructed out of the complex interrelationship between the market and the state. The examples of different sexual rights and lack of rights that it examines include the experience of male homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites, transsexualists and children. Meticulous, focused and challenging, it will be required reading for anyone interested in modern human sexualities.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘… a highly intelligent critique of the interraction of modern sexual identities with the state and market forces …’ – New Statesman and Society
‘… surely the most important study in gay modern social theory and history since Jeffrey Weeks’ Coming Out … ISexual Citizenship is beautifully lucid, combining politics, theory and recent history; scholarship and speculation. Customary topics are reassessed, always astutely (constructionism, reformism, camp, bisexuality, transvestism), andthere is a specially interesting chapter on sex/gender hierarchies in the labour market.’ – Alan Sinfield, Gay Times
About the Author
David T.Evans lectures in Sociology at the University of Glasgow.
