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" Sex, needs and queer culture : "
David Alderson.
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BL
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855828
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Alderson, David,1968-
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Sex, needs and queer culture : : from liberation to the postgay /\ David Alderson.
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| Publication Statement
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London, UK :: Zed Books Ltd,, 2016.
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viii, 316 pages ;; 22 cm
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178360512X
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: 1783605138
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: 9781783605125
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: 9781783605132
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1783605154
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1783605162
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9781783605149
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9781783605156
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9781783605163
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Transitions -- Is capitalism progressive (for queers)? -- Feeling radical : versions of counterculture -- Subculture and postgay dynamics -- Postscripts.
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"The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized--as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events--while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights. Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this 'homonormativity', or assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred. In Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and argues powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the broader project of human liberation."--Page 4 of cover.
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Capitalism-- Social aspects.
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Gay liberation movement-- Economic aspects.
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Homosexuality-- Social aspects.
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Neoliberalism.
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Queer theory.
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Sex-- Social aspects.
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Capitalism-- Social aspects.
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Family and Relationships.
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Family and Relationships.
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Homosexuality-- Social aspects.
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Homosexuality.
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Neoliberalism.
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Queer theory.
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Sex-- Social aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.7601
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HQ76.25.A436 2016
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| Cover Title
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Sex, needs & queer culture
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