Sexual strangers [[electronic resource] ] : gays, lesbians, and dilemmas of citizenship / / Shane Phelan

• Autore: Phelan Shane
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001
• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-93877-0; 9786612938771; 1-4399-0414-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792589903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Queer politics, queer theories.