Sexuality, subjectivity, and LGBTQ militancy in the United States

Sexuality, subjectivity, and LGBTQ militancy in the United States /

As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming more successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initia...

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Main Author: Marche, Guillaume (Author)
Other Authors: Throssell, Katharine (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Protest and social movements.
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Political aspects > United States.
Sexual minorities > Government policy > United States.
Sexual minorities > Civil rights > United States.
Homosexuality > Political aspects.
Homosexuality.
Monosexuality.
Sexual minorities.
Sexual orientation.
Government policy.
Civil rights.
Electronic books.
United States.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Subjectivity, militancy, and political opportunities ; A microsociological approach "from below" ; Why the United States? ; Terminology
  • Of Homosexualities and Movements. The homophile movement ; The gay liberation movement and the eruption of sexuality ; Gay communitarianism and the privatization of sexuality ; The advent of AIDS and the resurgence of activism ; Sexualization and strategic essentialism ; Legitimation, integrationism, and desexualization ; Recognition of marriage and desexualization
  • From Fragmentation to Coalescence. The moral conservatism of the 1980s ; ACT UP : Provocative lesbian and gay activism ; AIDS, lesbianism, and male homosexuality ; Depolarization, appeasement, and assimilationism ; Institutionalization, status, and conduct ; Substantive rights and collective mobilization
  • Sexual Fulfillment and Political Disenchantment. Militant disengagement ; Privatization and commodification ; LGBTQ pride controversies ; An idealized identity ; Authenticity ; Gratification, engagement, and disappointment ; Idealized identity, homogeneity, and AIDS ; Reasons for engagement, reasons for withdrawal
  • Sexuality and Empowerment. Young people's sexuality ; LGBTQ youth as social actors ; Daring to talk about LGBTQ young people's sexuality ; Homosociality, desire, and ethnicity/race ; Sexuality and public spaces : Sex Panic! ; Sexuality, intimacy, and empowerment ; Sexualizing lesbianism ; The "doldrums" and abeyance structures ; Refocusing action on pleasure
  • Mobilization on the Threshold of the Political. Guerrilla theater ; Maintaining grassroots activism ; Subaltern action ; Infrapolitics ; An extreme case : The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ; Three Sisters ; The significance of insignificance
  • Conclusion : Toward New Identity Forms. A winning movement ; Polymorphic mobilization ; What can we learn from this?

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