Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety - Hardcover

Moran, Les; Skeggs, Beverley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415300916 ISBN 13: 9780415300919

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'The empirical material ... in this engaging and timely book ... is fascinating ... [It is written] in an accessible style that retains complexity of analysis and argument, this is a book that deserves to be read, as it poses intellectual and policy challenges to debates on violence, sexuality and citizenship.' - Megan Todd, Sexualities

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415300916
• ISBN 13: 9780415300919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216