| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Social justice |
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Social justice (Abingdon, England)
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| Contents |
Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Antiquity : eros, lust and self-possessed government -- The middle ages : Edward II's favourites : one throne, two kings -- The early modern age : King James, effeminacy and spineless policy -- The Victorian age : the rhetorical conflation of homosexuality and bad government in the Cleveland street and Dublin castle scandals -- Late modernity : homosexuality, disloyalty and falling below the standards of public life -- Conclusions -- Index |
| Summary |
While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state's regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy. The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues that there are good reasons to suppose that our understandings of state power quiver with erotic undercurrents. The book maintains, more specifically, that the relationship between ideas of political authority and male same-sex desire is especially fraught. Through a series of case studies where a statesman's same-sex desire was put on trial (either li |
| Notes |
"GlassHouse book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 29, 2015) |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Europe -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Homosexuality.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134066995 |
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1134066996 |
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