Sexual Citizens : The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging
Sexual Citizens : The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging
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Author(s): Cossman, Brenda
ISBN No.: 9780804749961
Pages: 256
Year: 200706
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 89.70
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This book explores the relationship between sex and belonging in law and popular culture, arguing that contemporary citizenship is sexed, privatized, and self-disciplined. Former sexual outlaws have challenged their exclusion and are being incorporated into citizenship. But as citizenship becomes more sexed, it also becomes privatized and self-disciplined. The author explores these contesting representations of sex and belonging in films, television, and legal decisions. She examines a broad range of subjects, from gay men and lesbians, pornographers and hip hop artists, to women selling vibrators, adulterers, and single mothers on welfare. She observes cultural representations ranging from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" to Dr. Phil, "Sex in the City" to "Desperate Housewives," She reviews appellate court cases on sodomy and same-sex marriage, national welfare reform, and obscenity regulation. Finally, the author argues that these representations shape the terms of belonging and governance, producing good (and bad) sexual citizens, based on the degree to which they abide by the codes of privatized and self-disciplined sex.



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