Policing Sexuality

Sex, Society, and the State

AvJulian C. H. Lee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual behaviour and sexual identity of its citizens, such as the influence of colonialism, class, religion and national identity. Featuring five crucial case studies from India, Britain, the USA, Malaysia and Turkey, this fascinating comparative account challenges the coercive control state authority worldwide exert over the sexuality of its citizens.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-08
Mått:138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781848138964

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Julian C. H. Lee is a Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University. He previously held an Economic and Social Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kent. As well as numerous articles in journals and other publications, he is the author of Islamization and Activism in Malaysia (2010) and the editor of The Malaysian Way of Life (2010). He is also involved in organizations that advocate for sexuality rights and women's rights in Malaysia.

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Policing the body politic always entails sequestering the body sexual; the questions are only how and why, exactly where and when. This trans-regional examination of the different, and always self-contradictory, modalities of sexual state control and self-control is a treasure chest. Authors from Michel Foucault to Judith Butler would pawn one of their books to read this one: a combination of socio-cultural anatomies with humanist thinking. The anthropological wealth and comparative sociological imagination of this painstaking, yet amazingly easy-to-read book are scholarship at its best: accessible but never simplifying, liberating but never patronizing.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Gender, Sex, and Sexuality2. From Society3. To The State4. India5. The United States of America6. Malaysia7. Turkey8. Britain9. Comparing the Case Studies10. Resistances and Considerations11. Conclusions