The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn /

• Main Author: Sabsay, Leticia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Emotions.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Personality and Social Psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Self and Identity.; Emotion.

This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the ps...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Becoming a Sexual Citizen
• 2. Liberal Fantasies of Diversity
• 3. Desire After Identity: The Bisexual Question
• 4. Aberrant Choices? Postcoloniality and Autonomy
• 5. Phantasmatic Others. Sexual Democracy or the End of Multiculturalism
• 6. Family Worlds
• 7. Outside Oneself. Imaginary Citizens and Political Subjectivity (Conclusion).