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The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom

Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Leticia Sabsay

    1. LSE Gender Institutes, London School of Economics, and Political Science, London, UK

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  • Focuses on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life
  • Challenges accepted ideas about increased sexual emancipation
  • Offers a notion of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism

Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Leticia Sabsay
    Pages 1-30

  3. Diversity and the Sexual Imaginary

    • Leticia Sabsay
    Pages 31-83

  4. On the (b)orders of Sexual Citizenship

    • Leticia Sabsay
    Pages 85-127

  5. Sexuality in Translation

    • Leticia Sabsay
    Pages 129-164

  6. Body Matters: From Autonomy to Relationality

    • Leticia Sabsay
    Pages 165-211

  7. Being Sexual

    • Leticia Sabsay
    Pages 213-251

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 253-282
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About this book

This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights, offering instead a critique of the liberal imaginary that is at the base of the sexual rights-bearing subject. The book offers a notion of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism, one that is social, radically relational and psychically divided, and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual politics for our time.
This book brings together political and cultural analysis of sexual rights discourse with a strong theory of the relational subject whose political investments and articulations depend on a political imaginary. This is a highly original and methodical text which will be of particular interest to academics and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, politics and psychology.


Authors and Affiliations

  • LSE Gender Institutes, London School of Economics, and Political Science, London, UK

    Leticia Sabsay

About the author

Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. 

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