Mowlabocus, SharifUnknown
Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English9783030870706Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender1st ed.GREAT BRITAIN; UnknownThis book explores the concept of homonormativity and examines how the politics of homonormativity has shaped the lives and practices of gay men living primarily in the UK. The book adopts a case study approach in order to examine how homonormativity is shaping relationships within gay male culture, and between this culture and mainstream society. The book features chapters on same-sex marriage, HIV treatment, dating and hook-up culture, sexualized drug use and the world of work. Throughout these chapters, the book develops a conversation regarding the role that neoliberalism has played in defining gay male identities and practices in the UK and USA. If homonormativity is understood as the sexual politics of neoliberalism, this book considers to what extent those sexual politics pervade gay men’s sense of self, their relationships with each other, their experience of the spaces they occupy in everyday life, and the identities they inhabit in the workplace.blematizing the concept of homonormativity.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xi, 241 p.)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
-Contextualising homonormativity
-Forsaking all others? : same-sex marriage and the politics of everyday life-
-Conditional acceptance : British attitudes towards homonormativity in the context of PrEP
-'Kindness is our preference' : hook-up apps as technologies of polite incivility
-Something for the weekend? : nostalgia, vulnerability and discipline in chemsex heterotopias
-Marching to a different tune : inside the corporate sponsorship of LGBTQ lives
-Conclusion: Reflections on homonormativity