Desired States

Lessie Jo Frazier

ISBN 10: 0813597218 / ISBN 13: 9780813597218

Editore: Rutgers University Press, US, 2020

Desired States challenges the notion that in some cultures, sex and sexuality have become privatized and located in individual subjectivity rather than in public political practices and institutions. Instead, the book contends that desire is a central aspect of political culture. Based on fieldwork and archival research, Frazier explores the gendered and sexualized dynamics of political culture in Chile, an imperialist context, asking how people connect with and become mobilized in political projects in some cases or, in others, become disaffected or are excluded to varying degrees. The book situates the state in a rich and changing context of transnational and localized movements, imperialist interests, geo-political conflicts, and market forces to explore the broader struggles of desiring subjects, especially in those dimensions of life that are explicitly sexual and amorous: free love movements, marriage, the sixties' sexual revolution in Cold War contexts, prostitution policies, ideas about men's gratification, the charisma of leaders, and sexual/domestic violence against women. Codice articolo LU-9780813597218

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Desired States challenges the notion that in some cultures, sex and sexuality have become privatized and located in individual subjectivity rather than in public political practices and institutions. Instead, the book contends that desire is a central aspect of political culture. Based on fieldwork and archival research, Frazier explores the gendered and sexualized dynamics of political culture in Chile, an imperialist context, asking how people connect with and become mobilized in political projects in some cases or, in others, become disaffected or are excluded to varying degrees. The book situates the state in a rich and changing context of transnational and localized movements, imperialist interests, geo-political conflicts, and market forces to explore the broader struggles of desiring subjects, especially in those dimensions of life that are explicitly sexual and amorous: free love movements, marriage, the sixties&; sexual revolution in Cold War contexts, prostitution policies, ideas about men&;s gratification, the charisma of leaders, and sexual/domestic violence against women.
 

Informazioni sull?autore: Lessie Jo Frazier is an associate professor in the department of American studies and the department of gender studies at Indiana University in Bloomington.

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Titolo: Desired States
Casa editrice: Rutgers University Press, US
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New