Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the...
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Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Chitty, Christopher

Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

$93.05

Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

$93.05
Author: Christopher Chitty
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as twentieth-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule. Whether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state. Only by grasping sexuality as a field of social contention and the site of class conflict, Chitty contends, can we embark on a politics that destroys sexuality as a tool and an effect of power and open a front against the forces that keep us unfree.

Author: Christopher Chitty
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781478009580


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About the Author
Christopher Chitty (1983-2015) was a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Max Fox is an editor of Pinko magazine, a former editor of the New Inquiry, and translator of The Amphitheater of the Dead.

Christopher Nealon is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, also published by Duke University Press.

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