Verlag: New York University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0814742645 ISBN 13: 9780814742648
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: New York University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0814742645 ISBN 13: 9780814742648
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Beacon Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0807041335 ISBN 13: 9780807041338
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: New York University Press Apr 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1479856916 ISBN 13: 9781479856916
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesOffers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and powerAmerican politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy's telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted - but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements - women's liberation and gay liberation in the 1960s and '70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the '80s and '90s, welfare and immigration 'reform' in the '90s, wars claiming to 'save women' in the 2000s, and battles over health care in the 2010s, to recent demands for reproductive justice, trans liberation, and the explosive exposures of #MeToo.Religion has been wound up in these political struggles, and blamed for not a little of the resistance to meaningful change in America political life. Jakobsen acknowledges that religion is a force to be reckoned with, but decisively breaks with the common sense that religion and sex are the fixed binary of American political life. She instead follows the kaleidoscopic ways in which sexual politics are embedded in social relations of all kinds - not only the intimate relations of love and family with which gender and sex are routinely associated, but also secularism, freedom, race, disability, capitalism, nation and state, housing and the environment.In the midst of these obsessions, Jakobsen's promiscuous ethical imagination guides us forward. Drawing on examples from collaborative projects among activists, academics and artists, Jakobsen shows that sexual politics can contribute to building justice from the ground up. Gender and sexual relations are practices through which values emerge and communities are made. Sex and desire, gender and embodiment emerge as bases of ethical possibility, breaking political stalemate and opening new possibility.
Verlag: New York University Press Aug 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1479846082 ISBN 13: 9781479846085
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''The Sex Obsession' connects perversity and possibility in American politics'.
Verlag: NEW YORK UNIV PR, 2020
ISBN 10: 1479846082 ISBN 13: 9781479846085
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Über den AutorJanet R. JakobsenKlappentext The Sex Obsession connects perversity and possibility in American politics --.
Verlag: NEW YORK UNIV PR, 2003
ISBN 10: 0814742645 ISBN 13: 9780814742648
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. A timely study of the troubling links between religion, morality, and sex and the tendancies of secular institutions to use religion to regulate sexual life.KlappentextUsing a wide range of case studies, Love the Sin offers an insi.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Dez 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1032180722 ISBN 13: 9781032180724
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyzing the complexities of the current political moment in different geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal policies and practices in order to ground the pursuit of a more just world.