On Sexuality and Power

Alan Sinfield

Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13409-5
$28.50 / £17.00

February, 2005
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13408-8
$80.50 / £47.50

"This interdisciplinary book makes a valuable contribution to gay studies...Essential." — Choice

"By means of the very taxonomic categories his new book so deftly deploys, Alan Sinfield succeeds in showing us that taxonomy can never comprehend sexuality. Instead, as this forceful account makes clear, sexualities inhabit the unstable differentials that emerge from and generate the fluxions of power, socially and psychically both. By refusing to retreat from the force of this insight, which it unpacks with great lucidity and intelligence, *On Sexuality and Power* makes a major contribution to the analysis of sexuality and politics." — Lee Edelman, author of "Homographesis" and "No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive*"

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

About the Author

Alan Sinfield teaches in the English Department at Sussex University. He is the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century and The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment, among other books. He lives in Brighton, UK.

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