1st Edition
Erotics and Politics Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism
By Tim Edwards
Copyright 1994
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism). In doing so it covers a wide range of issues of concern to gay and feminist movements over the past twenty five years including gay liberational sexuality, sado-masochism, pornography, promiscuity, personal relationships, AIDS and postmodernity. The central... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Coming out, coming together; Chapter 2 Sexual politics and the politics of sexuality; Chapter 3 Gender and generation; Chapter 4 Sado-masochism, masculinity and the problem of pornography; Chapter 5 Public sex: the erotidsation of an oppressed position; Chapter 6 Private love: an alternative?; Chapter 7 The AIDS dialectic; Chapter 8 Politics, plurality and postmodernity; Conclusion: erotic politics; Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;
Biography
Tim Edwards is Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University.
