| Autor: | Warner, Michael | Titel: | The Trouble with Normal | Verlag: | The Free Press | Ort: | New York | Jahr: | 1999 | Auflage: | 1. | Signatur: | W 047 | Link: | | Reihe/Untertitel: | Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life | Aufstellung: | Sachbuch | Biographie aufgestellt unter: | | Suchgebiet: | | Erstauflage: | | dt. Erstauflage: | | ISBN: | 0 684 86529 7 | Bemerkungen: | | Originaltitel: | | Verlagsangaben: | | Angaben zu Autorin/Autor: | Michael Warner, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches American Literature and Queer Studies. He is the author of "The Letters of the Republik", "American Sermons: The Pilgrims of Martin Luther King", and Editor of "Fear of a Queer Planet". He lives in Brooklyn, New York. | Rezensionen: | Review
The push for gay marriages and the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy are just two of the more prominent examples of what Michael Warner sees as a misguided policy of the Gay and Lesbian movement to “normalize.” The attempt to fit into mainstream America has diminished the movement’s efforts to critique and combat the ill effects caused by the stigmatizing of sex in American culture. Warner also articulates an ethics of sexuality that presents a compelling ideal of sexual autonomy. Looking at New York City, he examines the local politics of sex and zoning laws that have cordoned off gay bars and clubs. Warner’s arguments are fresh and original critiques of dominant strains in queer politics and also have important implications for America’s historically uneasy relationship with sex and difference.
Judith Butler writes, “Warner is arguably the most productive and radical of queer theorists in our time, and his arguments are an urgent necessity if progressive sexual politics is to retain its claim to radicalism. He not only show us how shame grips and damages political positions that that seek the imprimatur of the normal, but traces with convincing detail the concrete political disenfranchisements for sexual minorities that follow from the purging of a radical perspective on sexuality from lesbian and gay politics. One may not concur with every word, but everyone will attest to the power and necessity of the invaluable critical voice offered here.” (1999)
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