Polarising Sexualities and Genders
Divisions, Differences and LGBTQIA+ Equalities
Kath Browne editor Emily Kazyak editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:2nd Oct '25
£21.99
This title is due to be published on 2nd October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Explores the lived experiences of sexual and gendered polarisations.
This ground-breaking open access collection tackles polarisations around sexualities and genders and in doing so, it opens out debates and discussions to reflect on how people live them, including and moving beyond social movements and political debates.
Anti-gender and heteroactivist movements have become increasingly recognized as key political groups in the last decade, driving resistances that often respond to LGBTQI+ inclusion. How these divisions are felt and experienced is under-explored.
Crossing a variety of geographical contexts, including India, USA, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain, Polarising Sexualities and Genders brings together leading and emerging scholars in multiple disciplines to explore, theorise and hope for change in social, legal, and political sexual/gendered/LGBTQIA+ landscapes. Examples include polarisation in media coverage and legislative debates about gender and transgender rights in the US and UK, to the possibility of occupying a sexual borderlands, the changing language for LGBTQIA+identities within the US, and the ways in which new discourses emerge to capture sexual lives. Through these case studies, the book explores how polarizing discourses and sociopolitical landscape shape the lived experiences, divisions, and marginalizations among LGBTQIA+ people in places including Lithuania, South India and the southern United States.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.
This wonderfully thoughtful and engaging book addresses the complexities of polarisation within contemporary gender and sexual politics. With contributions from leading scholars, it avoids easy conclusions, and sparkles. An important contribution to current debates. * Davina Cooper, King’s College London, UK *
This volume provides a valuable overview of thinking and research about forms of polarization related to LGBTQIA+ lives and movements. It challenges readers to consider the nature of such polarization and indeed to examine the utility and meaning of the concept of polarization as applied to LGBTQIA+ issues. Taken together, the chapters traverse time periods from the late 20th century to the present and a range of geographic locations, giving consideration to forms of polarization within LGBTQIA+ communities as well as more familiar divisions between advocates and opponents of LGBTQIA+ rights. The book demonstrates how polarization related to LGBTQIA+ issues does not always map neatly onto existing left/right political divisions. * Kathleen E. Hull, University of Minnesota, USA *
ISBN: 9781350449855
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
248 pages