The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom

Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-66980-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Studies in the Psychosocial

This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights, offering instead a critique of the liberal imaginary that is at the base of the sexual rights-bearing subject. The book offers a notion of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism, one that is social, radically relational and psychically divided, and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual politics for our time.This book brings together political and cultural analysis of sexual rights discourse with a strong theory of the relational subject whose political investments and articulations depend on a political imaginary. This is a highly original and methodical text which will be of particular interest to academics and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, politics and psychology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabsay, Leticia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Umwelt-, Konsum- und Werbepsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Becoming a Sexual Citizen.- 2. Liberal Fantasies of Diversity.- 3. Desire After Identity: The Bisexual Question.- 4. Aberrant Choices? Postcoloniality and Autonomy.- 5. Phantasmatic Others. Sexual Democracy or the End of Multiculturalism.- 6. Family Worlds.- 7. Outside Oneself. Imaginary Citizens and Political Subjectivity (Conclusion).

Über Autor(innen)

Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.