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Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality (Sexual Politics) by Debbie Epstein; Deborah Lynn Steinberg; Richard Johnson; University of Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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From the Oprah Winfrey Show, through filmic texts on 'Eating the Other', from scientific discourse within the AIDS epidemic to grieving as boundary crisis, Border Patrols explores the ways sexual divisions are constituted, regulated and transgressed. <p>The authors, who work together as the Politics of Sexuality Group begun at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, share a common framework which holds in tension the materialist emphasis on power and sexuality and the postmodern interest in multiplicity, contingency and ambivalence. Sexual borders are seen as matrices of power and oppression, but also of the impossibility of a unified identity.</p> <p>One main focus of the collection is the nexus of heterosexuality and contemporary 'gender troubles'. Strongly influenced by feminist, lesbian, gay and queer theories, the authors ask 'How are heterosexual relations sustained and recuperated despite their evident contradictions? How could they be changed or dissolved in a world where sexualities were equally valued or had become indistinguishable?' In examining these questions, the authors also explore different forms of research and writing. They all draw on the

Author

Debbie Epstein; Deborah Lynn Steinberg; Richard Johnson; University of Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Publisher

Cassell; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780304334780

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Psychology