Sexuality and the politics of violence / Leslie Moran and Beverley Skeggs, with Paul Tyrer and Karen Corteen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Leslie J., 1955-

Contributor:

Skeggs, Beverley.

Tyrer, Paul.

Corteen, Karen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Violence--Prevention.

Gay people--Crimes against.

Gay people.

Gays--Crimes against.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

"Sexuality and the Politics of Violence" is a major new work offering a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the center of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology, and critical legal scholarship the book offers to transform the way we understand and respond to the challenges raised by violence. It breaks new ground in its examination of the rhetoric and politics of violence, property, home, cosmopolitanism, and stranger danger in the generation of safety and security. Using interviews, focus groups and surveys with lesbians and gay men, this important book draws upon "real life" experiences of safety and security. It raises some fundamental challenges to the law and order politics of existing scholarship and activism on homophobic hate crime.

Contents:

Violence, sexuality and cultures and spaces of safety

Violence for safety

Attachment to hate : the emotional dimensions of lesbian and gay crime control

The limits of law and order : individual responsibility

The rhetoric and politics of property

Comfort and the location of safety, home

Cosmopolitan safety

Stranger danger : the uses of estrangement and the politics of fear

Conclusion : the challenges of safety and security.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-197) and index.

ISBN:

0415300924

OCLC:

52086095