基本説明
Offering a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence.
Full Description
Sexuality and the Politics of Violence offers a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology and critical legal scholarship, the book offers to transform the way we understand and respond to the challenges raised by violence. It breaks new ground in its examination of the rhetoric and politics of violence, property, home, cosmopolitanism and stranger danger in the generation of safety and security.
Using interviews, focus groups and surveys with lesbians and gay men, Sexuality and the Politics of Violence draws upon 'real life' experiences of safety and security. It raises some fundamental challenges to the law and order politics of existing scholarship and activism on homophobic hate crime.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
1 Violence, sexuality and cultures and spaces 1 (14)
of safety
2 Violence for safety 15 (13)
3 Attachment to hate: the emotional dimensions 28 (16)
of lesbian and gay crime control
4 The limits of law and order: individual 44 (13)
responsibility
5 The rhetoric and politics of property 57 (26)
6 Comfort and the location of safety - home 83 (58)
7 Cosmopolitan safety 110
8 Stranger danger: the uses of estrangement and 141(30)
the politics of fear
9 Conclusion: the challenges of safety and 171(5)
security
Notes 176(7)
References 183(15)
Index 198
