1st Edition

The Sexual Logics of Neoliberalism in Britain Sexual Politics in Exceptional Times

By Aura Lehtonen Copyright 2023
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the relationship between sexuality and politics in Britain’s recent political past, in the decade preceding the Covid-19 pandemic, and asks what sexual meanings and logics are embedded in the dominant political discourses and policies of this time. A discursive framing of ‘exceptionality’ has commonly attached to the politics of austerity, crisis and neoliberalisation that... Read more

Introduction - Sexual politics in exceptional times and places 1. Stable family / Troubled family 2. Deserving / Undeserving 3. Public / Private 4. Material / Cultural Conclusion - Desiring beyond the Binaries

Biography

Aura Lehtonen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK.