1st Edition

The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority The 'Trials' of Same-Sex Desire

By Aleardo Zanghellini Copyright 2015
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state’s regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy. The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues that there are good reasons to suppose that our understandings of state power quiver with erotic undercurrents. The book maintains, more... Read more

Introduction; Chapter 1 (Antiquity); Chapter 2 (Middle Ages); Chapter 3 (Renaissance and Early Modern Period); Chapter 4 (Modern Age); Chapter 5 (Late Modernity); Conclusions

Biography

Aleardo Zanghellini is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Reading.