The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance

By Lynette Finch

Sexuality and the working class, two discursive constructs, share the same moment of birth during the second half of the 19th century. This book focuses on Australian social reports and reveals how sections of society at that time were conceptually constructed as two distinct working classes. It questions what happened to the other working class: Marx's lumpenproletariat and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and asks how 20th-century social theorists agreed that only one working class existed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1863734376
• ISBN13: 9781863734370
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"