Sexual Citizenship and Social Change

A Dialectical Approach to Narratives of Tradition and Critique

Darren Langdridge (Autor)

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216 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-992631-2 (ISBN)

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Over the last thirty years in the West, there has been enormous change in social and state acceptance regarding sex and sexualities, with an apparent new acceptance and openness towards diverse sexual practices and sexualities. Much of this change has come about through community claims for rights grounded in critical social theory and the language of citizenship. While accepting that much of the critique has been valuable in advancing rights for sexual minorities, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change argues that the mode of critique itself may become problematic. Examining the use and abuse of critique in contemporary sexuality scholarship and associated activism, Darren Langdridge implicates a particular form of critique that is detached, unfettered, and set loose from the usual anchor of tradition. Even the most ostensibly well-meaning critic--and associated critique--can become problematic when their arguments are detached from tradition. Further, the book shows that this unrestrained excess of critique is particularly dangerous because it emerges from within minority sexual communities and their allies, not from the usual conservative opposition to progressive change. Theoretically and empirically grounded, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change draws on ideas and findings from psychology, sociology, politics, and philosophy and offers a radical challenge to the unfettered adoption of a critical approach in sexualities scholarship and activism. It highlights why we need to shine a critical lens on critique itself, while also anchoring it in a more constructive relationship with its natural opposite: tradition.

Darren Langdridge is Professor of Psychology at the Open University (UK), and a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy accredited existential psychotherapist working in private practice. For many years Darren has researched and written on sexualities, health, phenomenological methodology, critical theory and psychotherapy, publishing numerous books, papers and book chapters. He is the author or co-editor of a number of books, including Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy (2012), Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method (2007), Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism (2007, with M.J. Barker), and Understanding Non-monogamies (2010, with M.J. Barker).

Section 1
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: On Sexual Citizenship
Chapter 3: The Narrative Nature of Sexual Life

Section 2
Chapter 4: Sexual Citizenship and a Clash of Rights
Chapter 5: Conservative Claims for Citizenship
Chapter 6: Spectacular Critique and Abject Citizenship

Section 3
Chapter 7: Towards a Politics of Hospitality

Appendix I: A Dialectic of Ideology and Utopia
References
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Sexuality, Identity, and Society
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	218 x 150 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-992631-X / 019992631X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-992631-2 / 9780199926312
Zustand	Neuware