Coming on Strong

Gay Politics and Culture
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-74176-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1989, Coming on Strong addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of those most controversial minorities in 1980s Britain. What are the issues and what is to be done? This thoughtful and stimulating book looks at the relationship of gay men to law, politics and masculinity; at the specific position of Asian gays and young people; and at the threat to civil liberties posed by the homosexual law reform. Alongside analysis of the modern gay scene, there are accounts from the inside of various areas of gay work and politics. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, queer studies and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shepherd, Simon

Wallis, Mick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Biographical notes Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Psychoanalysis, sexuality and AIDS 2. AIDS and the cultural response 3. Homophobia/misogyny 4. Business as usual 5. Freud and his uses 6. Theories of sexual identity and the masculinization of the gay man 7. You don’t need bars to build a jail 8. The contradictory politics of SM 9. Black, Brown and White 10. Sexual fix, sexual surveillance 11. A conversation about pornography 12. Gay sex spy orgy 13. Gays and the press 14. Westminster barbarism 15. Gays and Marxism 16. A conversation about rock, politics and gays 17. Gramsci-the-goalie Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis.