Description
| Product ID: | 9781496230591 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Provocations |
| Title: | Hatred of Sex |
| Authors: | Author: Oliver Davis, Tim Dean |
| Page Count: | 206 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual behaviour |
| Description: | Hatred of Sex draws on Jacques Rancière’s thesis in Hatred of Democracy to help explain the aversion to sex that is evident in numerous forms in the culture around us. Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions, including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement, and “traumatology,” demonstrating how hatred of sex has been optimized and exploited by neoliberalism. Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-01 |
