Introduction 1. Transitions 2. Is Capitalism Progressive (For Queers)? 3. Feeling Radical: Versions of Counterculture 4. Subculture and Postgay Dynamics Postscripts
Offers a new and radically different interpretive framework for our understanding of neoliberalism and sexuality.
David Alderson is senior lecturer in modern literature at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is co-organiser, with Laura Doan, of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at Manchester.
Alderson’s overview of queer theory and its relation to resistance,
as well as his reading of the work of Marcuse, is thorough,
absorbing and readable for an audience beyond queer theory students
and academics.
*LSE Review of Books*
The book is marked by an enduring faith in the positive and
subversive potential of subcultures, autonomous collectives and
anti-consumerist movements.
*Morning Star*
Alderson offers a carefully constructed, critical analysis of
contemporary notions of sexual freedom in the historical context of
a nascent neoliberal capitalism and era of flexible
accumulation.
*Red Pepper*
'Honest, thoughtful and continuously insightful, Alderson’s
socialist-humanist perspective and commitment to moving beyond the
identity politics of recent times makes this an indispensable
book’.
*Jonathan Dollimore, author of Sex, Literature, and Censorship and
Sexual Dissidence*
Erudite, elegantly written and passionately argued, Sex, Needs and
Queer Culture offers a timely and urgently needed reassessment of
gay liberation. Alderson’s book will be an enriching and invaluable
resource for all working in this field.
*Michael G. Cronin, Maynooth University*
By placing the economic so directly next to the sexual, Sex, Needs
and Queer Culture is able to cut through the ideologies of both the
academy and the world at large. Alderson's careful eye avoids the
excesses of one-sided polemic while remaining firmly critical, and
he cleverly and optimistically re-opens the questions of freedom
and liberation for an often all-too-cynical age.
*Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman*
With nuance, passion and considerable lucidity, David Alderson
deftly examines the myths and realities of the one-dimensional gay.
Sex, Needs and Queer Culture is an astute analysis of our
contemporary moment, and a potent call to both reclaim and
reinvigorate subcultural queer praxis.
*Richard Hornsey, University of Nottingham*
‘A genuinely distinctive, highly considered, and important book.
The writing is beautifully articulate, and it offers an ambitious
and original contribution to queer theory.
*Stephen Maddison, University of East London*
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