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

Informationen zum Autor Linda Singer Klappentext First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 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. 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;

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Judith Macgrogan Butler
• Con la collaborazione di: Judith Butler (Editore), Maureen Macgrogan (Editore), MacGrogan Maureen (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.11.1992
• EAN: 9780415902021
• ISBN: 978-0-415-90202-1
• Pagine: 220
• Serie: Thinking Gender
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Ethical issues & debates, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Ethical issues and debates