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Policing sexuality : sex, society, and the state / Julian C.H. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Julian C. H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Human rights.
- Sex--Political aspects.
- Gender identity--Social aspects.
- Gender identity.
- Sex role--Political aspects.
- Sex role.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Selangor, [Malaysia] : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre ; London ; New York : Zed Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity, asking how and why nation-states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of their citizens. Featuring crucial case studies from India, the US, Malaysia, Turkey, and Britain, this engaging comparative account examines the coercive control state authority exerts over sexuality.
- Contents:
- 1 What is Sexuality? What is Policing?
- What is sexuality?
- Theory of the State, policing and sexuality
- International trends towards sexual and gender conservativism
- Conflicts between policing sexuality and human rights norms
- 2 From Societal Regulation (why societies regulate sexuality)
- Gender cosmologies
- Paternal certainty
- Marriage and hypergamy
- Women as group identity markers vs as men's property
- 3 To the State
- Population management
- Saving the nation from moral degeneracy within
- Saving the nation from 'Others'
- Controlling women's movement
- The role of religion: As a political idiom
- The role of religion: More than just an idiom
- The impact of urbanization and modernization
- 4 Case study 1: India
- The severe punishments for sexual transgression
- The impact of a caste society
- The impact of hypergamy Sherry B. Ortner's 'Virgin and the State' thesis
- 5 Case study 2: Britain
- Victorian laws and ideologies for controlling women
- The role of class
- The case of Oscar Wilde
- Policing the family and sexuality under Margaret Thatcher
- 6 Case study 3: The USA
- Sodomy laws
- Gay marriage debate
- Abortion/pro-choice debate
- Sex-education and abstention programs
- The impact of religion and politics
- 7 Case study 4: Malaysia (chapter provided with proposal)
- Historical background
- Colonization and the bureaucratization of Malaysian life
- The impact of economic and technological modernization
- International politics and globalization
- 8 Case study 5: Turkey (chapter provided with proposal)
- Turkish gender cosmology: Honour, shame and women
- Virginity testing
- Honour-killings
- The image of the contemporary Turkish woman
- 9 Case study comparisons
- The impact of religion
- The impact of modernity and urbanization
- The impact of class and ethnic politics
- The impact of colonization
- The impact of national identity construction and Othering
- The deployment of the law and State infrastructure
- 10 Resistance: Local and Transnational.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848138971
- 9781848138964
- 1848138962
- 1848138970
- OCLC:
- 754973817
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