1st Edition

Erotic Welfare Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic

Edited By Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan Copyright 1993
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power.

Introduction Editor's Introduction; Part I Erotic Welfare; Chapter 1 Author's Introduction; Chapter 2 Sex and the Logic of Late Capitalism; Chapter 3 Disciplining Pleasures; Chapter 4 Regulating Women in the Age of Sexual Epidemic; Chapter 5 Reproductive Regulations in the Age of Sexual Epidemic; Chapter 6 Hospitalization and AIDS; Part II Selected Writings; Chapter II_1 Bodies-Pleasures-Powers; Chapter II_2 Interpretation and Retrieval: Rereading Beauvoir; Chapter II_3 True Confessions: Cixous and Foucault on Sexuality and Power; Chapter II_4 Defusing the Canon: Feminist Rereading and Textual Politics; Chapter II_5 Just Say No: Repression, Anti-Sex, and the New Film; Chapter II_6 Feminism and Postmodernism;

Biography

Linda Singer