Questioning Sexuality

From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond

von Gavin Rae

320 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and heteronormative relations over alternatives. By engaging with psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, feminist and gender theory, and the new materialisms, Gavin Rae shows how this model came under sustained and heterogeneous attack in the twentieth century. Rather than affirm one of these critical trajectories, Rae rethinks the problematic by turning to Walter Benjamin's notion of concepts as constellations to develop an alternative model called sexuality as constellation.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften Ideengeschichte, Geistesgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781399535090
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2024
• Größe: 162 x 241 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press