On sexuality and power / Alan Sinfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinfield, Alan.

Series:

Between men--between women.

Between men--between women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male homosexuality--Psychological aspects.

Male homosexuality.

Power (Social sciences).

Sex (Psychology).

Gay people in literature.

Homosexuality and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Taxonomies

3. Fantasy

4. Power

5. Gender

6. Age

7. Class

8. Race

9. Fiction

Notes

Index

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-212) and index.

ISBN:

9780231508667

0231508662

OCLC:

826476589