Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States

Author:   Guillaume Marche ,  Université Lumière Lyon 2 ,  Katharine Throssell
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
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Volume:   18
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   05 June 2019
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As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States focuses on the transformations of the US LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have paradoxically led to a decrease in grassroots militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors’ mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy.

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Author:   Guillaume Marche ,  Université Lumière Lyon 2 ,  Katharine Throssell
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Edition:   0
Volume:   18
ISBN:  

9789089649607


ISBN 10:   9089649603
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   05 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Subjectivity, militancy, and political opportunities A micro-sociological approach ""from below"" Why the united states? Terminology Chapter 2 Of homosexualities and movements The homophile movement The gay liberation movement and the eruption of sexuality Gay communitarianism and the privatization of sexuality The advent of aids and the resurgence of activism Sexualization and strategic essentialism Legitimation, integrationism, and desexualization Recognition of marriage and desexualization Chapter 3 From fragmentation to coalescence The moral conservatism of the 1980s Act up: provocative lesbian and gay activism Aids, lesbianism, and male homosexuality Depolarization, appeasement, and assimilationism Institutionalization, status, and conduct Substantive rights and collective mobilization Chapter 4 Sexual fulfillment and political disenchantment Militant disengagement Privatization and commodification LGBTQ pride controversies An idealized identity Authenticity Gratification, engagement, and disappointment Idealized identity, homogeneity, and aids Reasons for engagement, reasons for withdrawal Chapter 5 Sexuality and empowerment Subjectivity, erotics, and mobilization Young people's sexuality LGBTQ youth as social actors Daring to talk about lgbtq young people's sexuality Homosociality, desire, and ethnicity/race Sexuality and public spaces: sex panic! Sexuality, intimacy, and empowerment Sexualizing lesbianism The ""doldrums"" and abeyance structures Refocusing action on pleasure Chapter 6 Mobilization on the threshold of the political Guerrilla theater Maintaining grassroots activism Subaltern action Infrapolitics An extreme case: the sisters of perpetual indulgence Three sisters The significance of insignificance Chapter 7 Conclusion: toward new identity forms A winning movement Polymorphic mobilization What can we learn from this? The interviewees References Index Acknowledgments"

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"""Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States advances a provocative perspective on the LGBTQ movement that could generate debate on potential directions for the post-Obergefell LGBTQ movement in the United States."" - Jonathan S. Coley Oklahoma State University, Mobilization Winter 2019"


Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States advances a provocative perspective on the LGBTQ movement that could generate debate on potential directions for the post-Obergefell LGBTQ movement in the United States. - Jonathan S. Coley[-]Oklahoma State University, Mobilization Winter 2019


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Guillaume Marche, professor of American studies (society, politics, and culture) at Université Paris-Est Créteil (France), specializes in contemporary social movements in the US. His publications deal with the LGBTQ movement, sexuality, subjectivity, and collective mobilization. His current work also addresses the use of activists’ biographies as sociological sources as well as infrapolitical forms of intervention in public spaces (e.g., graffiti and LGBTQ theatricality).

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