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

by Christopher Chitty

Book Overview

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the 500 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, and twentieth-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478009586
• ISBN13: 9781478009580
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"