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The war on sex

The war on sex

David M. Halperin, Trevor Hoppe (dir.), The war on sex, Durham and London, Duke University Press, coll. « Sex and sexuality / Gay and lesbian studies », 2017, 512 p., ISBN : 9780275987855.
Notice publiée le 09 mai 2017

Présentation de l'éditeur

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights.

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Auteurs

David M. Halperin (dir.)

David M. Halperin is W.H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the English Department at the University of MIchigan and the author, most recently, of How to Be Gay

Trevor Hoppe (dir.)

Trevor Hope is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and author of Punising Disease

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