Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of Gay and Lesbian Politics A Historical Ontology of Politics * Power, Subjectivity, and Truth * Politics and Technologies of Government 2. A Politics of Sexuality Poser in Modernity: Biopower * Sexuality Becomes a Political Issue * Sexuality: A Technology of Government * The Lesbian and Gay Politics of Sexuality 3. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Political Identity A Genealogy of Gay and Lesbian Identity * Erotics: From Subjection to Agency * Silence = Death: Coming Out and the Creation of the Self * Conclusion: After Sexuality, Erotics? 4. What Are Lesbian and Gay Rights? Sexuality and Normativity: A Relational Right * AIDS and Biopower * Conclusion 5. An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence Lesbian and Gay Existence: Sexual Orientation, Lifestyle, and Community * The Emergence of a Lesbian and Gay Ethos * Ethos, Knowledge, and Politics * Gay and Lesbian Politics and a New Ethic * Conclusion Index
The making of gay and lesbian politics
Mark Blasius, Associate Professor of Political Science at City University of New York, LaGuardia, is the co-author of We Are Everywhere: An Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics.
"This important study is both an analysis of and a call to an
involved politics. It opens the door to a far-reaching
dialogue."
—Martin Duberman, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The City
University of New York
"It is in the process of coming out...Blasius argues, that lesbians
and gay men create themselves—as new subjects, as the producers of
new truth, and as agents of social change. Blasius gives a coherent
account that ties together all these processes—from coming out to
the emergence of lesbian and gay studies-and goes on to show the
'ethical' contribution that lesbians and gay men make to
contemporary American society."
—Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review
"An engaging book that intelligently explores a range of
possibilities in human relations."
—George Kateb, Department of Politics, Princeton University
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