What We Don't Talk About - Sex and the Mess of Life (Paperback)

What if we took sex out of the box marked 'special', either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary book, despite longstanding tabloid-style sexual preoccupations with villains and victims, shame and virtue, JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that. From the HIV crisis to the paedophile priest panic, Woody Allen to Brett Kavanaugh, child pornography to Abu Ghraib, Wypijewski takes the most famous sex panics of the last decades and turns them inside out, weaving what together becomes a searing indictment of modern sexual politics, exposing the myriad ways sex panics and the expansion of the punitive state are intertwined. What emerges is an examination of the multiple ways in which the ever-expanding default language of monsters and victims has contributed to the repressive power of the state. Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too, Wypijewski insists and so must sexual politics, to make any sense at all.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	JoAnn Wypijewski
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-78873-850-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion
LSN:	1-78873-850-0
Barcode:	9781788738507

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