On Sexuality and Power by Alan Sinfield
It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay fiction and cinema are often organized around this assumption. Nonetheless, power differentials are remarkably persistent-as well as sexy. What are the personal and political implications of this insight? Sinfield argues that hierarchies in interpersonal relations are continuous with the main power differentials of our social and political life (gender, class, age, and race); therefore it is not surprising that they govern our psychic lives. Recent writing enables an exploration of their positive potential, especially in fantasy, as well as their danger. On Sexuality and Power focuses on the writing of the last thirty years, revisiting also Whitman, Wilde, Mann, Forster, and Genet, and reassessing the very idea of a gay canon.-
Homosexuality in Renaissance England
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The Violet Hour
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Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho
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Poems Between Women
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Body Talk
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Queer Families, Queer Politics
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Something to Tell You
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Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
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Identity Poetics
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Recognizing Ourselves
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Up from Invisibility
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The Politics of Passion
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Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall
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Macbeth
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Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading
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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
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The Wilde Century
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Alfred Tennyson
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Dramatic Monologue (Routledge Revivals)
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Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 (Routledge Revivals)
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Cultural Politics - Queer Reading
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Society and Literature 1945-1970 (Routledge Revivals)
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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality
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Out on Stage
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Textual Practice V10 Issue 2
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Textual Practice 10.3
This interdisciplinary book makes a valuable contribution to gay studies..Essential. Choice
Alan Sinfield teaches in the English Department at Sussex University. He is the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century and The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment, among other books. He lives in Brighton, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231134088 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231134088 |
| Title | On Sexuality and Power |
| Author | Alan Sinfield |
| Series | Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian And Gay Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2004-12-22 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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