Erotic Welfare - Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic

The author argues contemporary culture is in an "age of epidemic"; AIDS has provoked discussion of the disease but also seen a growth in sites of erotic danger. She traces the effects of epidemic on the intensification and augmentation of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Linda Singer

Zusammenfassung

The author argues contemporary culture is in an "age of epidemic"; AIDS has provoked discussion of the disease but also seen a growth in sites of erotic danger. She traces the effects of epidemic on the intensification and augmentation of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Judith Butler, Judith Macgrogan Butler
• Mitarbeit: Judith Butler (Herausgeber), MacGrogan Maureen (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138457621
• ISBN: 978-1-138-45762-1
• Seiten: 220
• Serie: Thinking Gender
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy