ISBN:
9780415827409
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series Statement:
Social Justice
Parallel Title:
Print version The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority : The 'Trials' of Same-Sex Desire
DDC:
306.76/6094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Antiquity: Eros, lust and self-possessed government; 2 The Middle Ages: Edward II's favourites - One throne, two kings; 3 The Early Modern Age: King James, effeminacy and spineless policy; 4 The Victorian Age: The rhetorical conflation of homosexuality and poor government in the Cleveland Street and Dublin Castle scandals; 5 Late Modernity: Homosexuality, disloyalty and falling below the standards of public life; Conclusions; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
