03191nam 22007214a 450 991045204290332120210603013424.00-231-50866-210.7312/sinf13408(CKB)1000000000455599(EBL)909330(OCoLC)826476589(SSID)ssj0000214673(PQKBManifestationID)11186559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214673(PQKBWorkID)10167604(PQKB)10885762(MiAaPQ)EBC909330(DE-B1597)459336(OCoLC)213305986(OCoLC)979776383(DE-B1597)9780231508667(Au-PeEL)EBL909330(CaPaEBR)ebr10183528(CaONFJC)MIL853881(EXLCZ)99100000000045559920040617d2004 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrOn sexuality and power[electronic resource] /Alan SinfieldNew York Columbia University Pressc20041 online resource (188 p.)Between men--between womenDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13409-6 0-231-13408-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-212) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction --2. Taxonomies --3. Fantasy --4. Power --5. Gender --6. Age --7. Class --8. Race --9. Fiction --Notes --Index --Back matterIt is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay fiction and cinema are often organized around this assumption. Nonetheless, power differentials are remarkably persistent-as well as sexy. What are the personal and political implications of this insight? Sinfield argues that hierarchies in interpersonal relations are continuous with the main power differentials of our social and political life (gender, class, age, and race); therefore it is not surprising that they govern our psychic lives. Recent writing enables an exploration of their positive potential, especially in fantasy, as well as their danger. On Sexuality and Power focuses on the writing of the last thirty years, revisiting also Whitman, Wilde, Mann, Forster, and Genet, and reassessing the very idea of a gay canon.Between men--between women.Male homosexualityPsychological aspectsPower (Social sciences)Sex (Psychology)Gays in literatureHomosexuality and literatureElectronic books.Male homosexualityPsychological aspects.Power (Social sciences)Sex (Psychology)Gays in literature.Homosexuality and literature.306.76/6Sinfield Alan132436MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452042903321On sexuality and power2460370UNINA