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Coming on Strong Simon Shephert

Coming on Strong By Simon Shephert

Coming on Strong by Simon Shephert


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This collection of essays addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of the most controversial minorities in Britain in the 1980s. The book looks at the relationship of gay men to law, politics and masculinity.

Coming on Strong Summary

Coming on Strong: Gay Politics and Culture by Simon Shephert

This collection of essays addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of the most controversial minorities in Britain today. The book is a record and analysis of gay work and life in the 1980s, ranging across the disciplines of law, politics, psychoanalysis, drama, film, communications and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Psychoanalysis, sexuality and AIDS, Simon Watney; Freud and his uses - psychoanalysis and gay theory, John Fletcher; AIDS and the cultural response - "The Normal Heart" and "We All Fall Down", Sue Ellis and Paul Heritage; homophobia/misogyny - sexual fears, sexual definitions, Joseph Bristow; business as usual - substitution and sex in "Prick Up Your Ears" and other recent gay-themed movies, Mark Finch; theories of sexual identity and the masculinization of the gay man, Jamie Gough; you don't need bars to build a jail - the politics of sexuality in care, Ben Perks; the contradictory politics of SM, Mike McNair; black, "brown" and white, Sunil Gupta; sexual fix, sexual surveillance - homosexual in law, Les Moran; a conversation about pornography, Richard Dyer; gay sex spy orgy - the state's need for queers, Simon Shepherd; gays and the press, Terry Sanderson; Westminster barbarism, Andrew Lumsden; gays and Marxism, Bill Marshall; a conversation about rock, politics and gays, Tom Robinson, Gramsci-the-goalie - reflections in the bath on gays, the Labour Party and socialism, Mick Wallis.

Additional information

GOR002037037
9780044453529
0044453523
Coming on Strong: Gay Politics and Culture by Simon Shephert
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1989-06-22
240
N/A
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