Sexual studies and sexual justice

The 20th anniversary edition of Sexualities prompts a question: What is the relationship today between critical studies of sexuality and ideas of progress and sexual justice? The answer is not straightforward in the way it seemed to be in the early days of sex research. As sexual studies have become...

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Published in:Sexualities 2018-12, Vol.21 (8), p.1238-1242
Main Author: Weeks, Jeffrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Justice
Queer theory
Sexuality
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Summary:The 20th anniversary edition of Sexualities prompts a question: What is the relationship today between critical studies of sexuality and ideas of progress and sexual justice? The answer is not straightforward in the way it seemed to be in the early days of sex research. As sexual studies have become more mainstreamed, professionalized, academicized and ultra theorized, the link is becoming severely stretched. Sexual studies, many complain, have become battlegrounds of ideas long detached from any but the most etiolated of practice. The convolutions of queer theory offer the classic example.
ISSN:1363-4607
1461-7382
DOI:10.1177/1363460718770445