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Sexual citizenship and social change : a dialectical approach to narratives of tradition and critique / Darren Langdridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langdridge, Darren, author.
- Series:
- Sexuality, identity, and society series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Sexuality, identity, and society series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Political aspects.
- Sex.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Over the last 30 years in the West, there has been enormous change in social and state acceptance regarding sex and sexualities, with an apparent new acceptance and openness towards diverse sexual practices and sexualities. Much of this change has come about through community claims for rights grounded in critical social theory and the language of citizenship. While accepting that much of the critique has been valuable in advancing rights for sexual minorities, 'Sexual Citizenship and Social Change' argues that the mode of critique itself may become problematic. Examining the use and abuse of critique in contemporary sexuality scholarship and associated activism, Darren Langdridge implicates a particular form of critique that is detached, unfettered, and set loose from the usual anchor of tradition.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Sexual Citizenship and Social Change
- Copyright
- Contents
- SECTION 1
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On sexual citizenship
- 3. The narrative nature of sexual life
- SECTION 2
- 4. Sexual citizenship and a clash of rights
- 5. Conservative claims for citizenship
- 6. Spectacular critique and abject citizenship
- SECTION 3
- 7. Towards a politics of hospitality
- Appendix: A dialectic of ideology and utopia
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-777119-X
- 0-19-777118-1
- OCLC:
- 1397329412
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