Cruising Culture - Promiscuity, Desire and American Gay Literature

Informationen zum Autor Ben Gove Klappentext Gove analyzes promiscuity within American gay culture and the root assumptions and contradictions that contribute to dominant understandings of promiscuous sex and desire. He challenges the normative dichotomy of "bad" gay male promiscuity and "good" heterosexual monogamy and presents a wider overview of American attitudes towards sexual practice and desire. The author draws on the autobiographical fiction and memoirs of three influential authors from the early 1960s onwards: John Rechy, Larry Kramer, and David Wojnarowicz, as well as other queer critical, historical, and fictional viewpoints to illustrate the argument. Zusammenfassung In this original and provocative book! Ben Gove unpicks the root assumptions and contradictions which contribute to dominant punitive notions of promiscuous sex and desire.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ben Gove, Ben Santamaria
• Edition: Edinburgh University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780748613618
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-1361-8
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 15 mm
• Thèmes: Tendencies: Indentities, Texts; Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures; Tendencies, Identities, Texts, Culture; Tendencies: Indentities, Texts; Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures; Tendencies: Identities, Texts,; Tendencies, Identities, Texts, Culture
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Psychologie, ésotérique, spiritualité, anthroposophie > Psychologie appliquée; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques