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.
Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
1. Becoming a Sexual Citizen.- 2. Liberal Fantasies of Diversity.- 3. Desire After Identity: The Bisexual Question.- 4. Aberrant Choices? Postcoloniality and Autonomy.- 5. Phantasmatic Others. Sexual Democracy or the End of Multiculturalism.- 6. Family Worlds.- 7. Outside Oneself. Imaginary Citizens and Political Subjectivity (Conclusion).