Overview

In Sexual Citizenship David T. Evans argues that analyses of the social construction of sexualities have tended to ignore the material contexts in which gender construction occurs. The main negative effect of this is that the sexual has been detached from mainsteam power relations and interests. Building upon Foucauldian and Interactionist perspectives, David Evans maintains that the progressive sexualisation of modern capitalist societies is primarily shaped by the complex inter-related material interests of market and state. The inherent individualism and amoralism of the consumerist market inevitably leads to the commodification of that which is most personal', private', individual' and natural'. Capitalism encourages us to purchase our sexual identities and lifestyles and impels us to conclude that we are right to do so. In response the state is not a passive actor. It neither simply resists or retreats. Rather it concedes relative and partial rights to deviant' sexual minorities, investing them with particular, limited forms of gender/consumer power i.e. sexual citizenship. After a detailed discussion of the theoretical issues, the argument is developed through the specific instances of male homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, transsexualism, paedophilia and children's sexuality.

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Author:   David Evans
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780415058001

ISBN 10:   0415058007
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   13 May 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 SEXUALITY AS DISCOURSE AND SCRIPT; Chapter 2 SEXUAL RIGHTS AND COMMODITIES; Chapter 3 THE ‘PERMISSIVE’ WATERSHED; Chapter 4 HOMOSEXUAL CITIZENSHIP: ECONOMIC RIGHTS…; Chapter 5 AND POLITICAL OBLIGATIONS; Chapter 6 DUAL CITIZENSHIP?; Chapter 7 TRANS-CITIZENSHIP; Chapter 8 EMBRYONIC SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP; Chapter 9 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE;

Reviews

There are good things in this book, certainly: some chic, an analysis of the demonizing of bisexuality almost Sedgwickian in its power, a brilliant and courageous analysis of the ambiguous and cruel positioning of the child as sexual agent, and a consistently high level of smart talk...It's a book rich in detail and tantalizingly wry and quick. -Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter, March 1994 David Evans, a Scottish sociologist, has made an ambitious attempt in Sexual Citizenship to demonstrate how the social construction of contemporary sexualities takes place within the crucible of advanced capitalism and modern state politics (especially Thatcherism). - The Women's Review of Books, March 1994

There are good things in this book, certainly: some chic, an analysis of the demonizing of bisexuality almost Sedgwickian in its power, a brilliant and courageous analysis of the ambiguous and cruel positioning of the child as sexual agent, and a consistently high level of smart talk...It's a book rich in detail and tantalizingly wry and quick. <br>-Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter, March 1994 <br> David Evans, a Scottish sociologist, has made an ambitious attempt in Sexual Citizenship to demonstrate how the social construction of contemporary sexualities takes place within the crucible of advanced capitalism and modern state politics (especially Thatcherism). <br>- The Women's Review of Books, March 1994 <br>

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David T.Evans lectures in Sociology at the University of Glasgow.

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