Sex-Life
A Critical Commentary on the History of Sexuality
Seiten
1993
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-0612-4 (ISBN)
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-0612-4 (ISBN)
'Desire, sexuality and biology appear to be inextricably linked. Not simply because we exist "as", "with" and "in" our bodies , but because our sexual feelings ... continue to be represented and understood as expressions of our biological constitution. Yet somehow the idea that sexuality is an "ideological imposition upon the body" - that is, a social construction - has taken firm root in the academy and among the political opponents of phallocentric sexuality. The dissonance between the theory of sexuality - the history of sexuality - and its lived practice continues unabated.'
In Sex Life, Don Milligan explores the variety of ways in which sexuality has been theorised in the twentieth century - from Freud to the modern critical theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Lacan. He examines the conflicting claims of biological essentialism and social determinism, and argues, the the course of a lucid critical review of the history of ideas about sexuality, that the apparent contradiction between these two extremes is misleading, simplistic and ultimately unhelpful.
Milligan's controversial and provocative study provides the grounding for new developments in the debates over sexuality.
In Sex Life, Don Milligan explores the variety of ways in which sexuality has been theorised in the twentieth century - from Freud to the modern critical theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Lacan. He examines the conflicting claims of biological essentialism and social determinism, and argues, the the course of a lucid critical review of the history of ideas about sexuality, that the apparent contradiction between these two extremes is misleading, simplistic and ultimately unhelpful.
Milligan's controversial and provocative study provides the grounding for new developments in the debates over sexuality.
Don Miligan is an activist and writer. His works include The Politics of Homosexuality (1973) and The Truth About the AIDS Panic (1987).
Introduction; between mind and body (Freud, de Beauvoir, Mitchell); the state of nature (Darwin, Gehlen, Malinowsky, Midgley, Wilson, Dawkins); society and self-realization (Reich, Fromm, Marcuse); enemies of the oedipal triangle (Lacan, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida); the perspective of history (Lyotard, Foucault, Weeks, Vance); the desire for order (Rorty, Bloom, Scruton); conclusion - the origin of sex-life.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.1.1993 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7453-0612-8 / 0745306128 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-0612-4 / 9780745306124 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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