Interrogating homonormativity : Gay men, identity and everyday life 1st ed.

Author

• Mowlabocus, Sharif

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030870706

Series

Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender

Subject(s)

• GAY MEN--SOCIAL CONDITIONS
• GREAT BRITAIN

Notes

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Abstract

This book explores the concept of homonormativity and examines how the politics of homonormativity has shaped the lives and practices of gay men living primarily in the UK. The book adopts a case study approach in order to examine how homonormativity is shaping relationships within gay male culture, and between this culture and mainstream society. The book features chapters on same-sex marriage, HIV treatment, dating and hook-up culture, sexualized drug use and the world of work. Throughout these chapters, the book develops a conversation regarding the role that neoliberalism has played in defining gay male identities and practices in the UK and USA. If homonormativity is understood as the sexual politics of neoliberalism, this book considers to what extent those sexual politics pervade gay men’s sense of self, their relationships with each other, their experience of the spaces they occupy in everyday life, and the identities they inhabit in the workplace.blematizing the concept of homonormativity.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 241 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

-Contextualising homonormativity
-Forsaking all others? : same-sex marriage and the politics of everyday life-
-Conditional acceptance : British attitudes towards homonormativity in the context of PrEP
-'Kindness is our preference' : hook-up apps as technologies of polite incivility
-Something for the weekend? : nostalgia, vulnerability and discipline in chemsex heterotopias
-Marching to a different tune : inside the corporate sponsorship of LGBTQ lives
-Conclusion: Reflections on homonormativity

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00712/22	306.7662 Mow I	Online !	Available