What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
David M. Halperin
ISBN: | 9780472116225 |
Publisher: | University of Michigan Press |
Published: | 30 September, 2007 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
David M. Halperin
What Do Gay Men Want? explores some of the possibilities.Unlike most writers on the topic of gay men and risky sex, David Halperin liberates gay male subjectivity from psychology, demonstrating the insidious ways in which psychology's defining opposition between the normal and the pathological subjects homosexuality to medical reasoning and revives a whole set of unexamined moral assumptions about "good" sex and "bad" sex.In particular, Halperin champions neglected traditions of queer thought, including both literary and popular discourses, by drawing on the work of well-known figures like Jean Genet and neglected ones like Marcel Jouhandeau. He shows how the long history of of gay men's uses of "abjection" can offer an alternative, nonmoralistic model for thinking about gay male subjectivity, something which is urgently needed in the age of barebacking. -- Publisher description.
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