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Sexual strangers : gays, lesbians, and dilemmas of citizenship / / Shane Phelan



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Autore: Phelan Shane Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sexual strangers : gays, lesbians, and dilemmas of citizenship / / Shane Phelan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 305.9/0664/0973
Soggetto topico: Gay rights - United States
Political rights - United States
Citizenship - United States
Homosexuality - Political aspects - United States
Lesbianism - Political aspects - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Citizens and Strangers; 2. Structures of Strangeness: Bodies, Passions, and Citizenship; 3. Structures of Strangeness: Citizenship and Kinship; 4. Negotiating Strangeness: Assimilation and Visibility; 5. Strangers among "Us": Secondary Marginalization and "LGBT" Politics; 6. Queering Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Is the United States a heterosexual regime? If it is, how may we understand the political position of those who cannot or will not align themselves with heterosexuality? With these provocative questions, Shane Phelan raises the issue of whether lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people can be seen as citizens at all. Can citizenship be made queer? Or does citizenship require the exclusion of those who are regarded as queer to preserve the ""equality"" that it promises? In Sexual Strangers, Shane Phelan argues that, in the United States, queers are strangers -- not
Titolo autorizzato: Sexual strangers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-93877-0
9786612938771
1-4399-0414-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815120003321
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Serie: Queer politics, queer theories.