Hatred of sex
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Bibliographic Information
Hatred of sex
（Provocations / series editors, Marco Abel and Roland Végső）
University of Nebraska Press, c2022
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-185)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Hatred of Sex links Jacques Ranciere's political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche's identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions, including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement, and "traumatology," demonstrating how hatred of sex has been optimized and exploited by neoliberalism.
Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious.
Table of Contents
Provocations
Preface
1. Hatred of Sex
2. Does Queer Studies Hate Sex?
3. Securing the Appropriate: Attachment Theory Reconsidered
4. Traumatology and Governance
Afterword: The Hatred of Sex in Hatred of Democracy
Notes
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