02117nam a2200301 i 4500 991107469515406196 20250312125522.0 250117s2025 enk b 001 0 eng d 9780745349435 0745349439 pbk. 90101122759 (OCoLC)1484909506 (OCoLC)on1484909506 NjBwBT eng CDX rda CDX HQ18.55 .S43 2025 Sears, Alan, author. 24902 Eros and alienation : capitalism and the making of gendered sexualities / Alan Sears. London : Pluto Press, 2025. 188 pages ; 22 cm. Mapping social reproduction theory Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-178) and index. Eros and Alienation — Alienation and the Making of Sexualities — Sexualities at Work — Market Model Sexualities — The State and Sexual Hegemony — Sexuality and Ecology — Utopia and Sexual Revolutions. "Delves into the underexplored relationship between alienated labour and sexuality. Our human drive to shape the world around us and fulfil ourselves through labour is subverted by capitalist alienation, leaving us to find fulfilment elsewhere. As a result, our erotic drives become the central focus for transformation and life-making, but are themselves restricted and fuelled by whatever energy is left after completing the monetised or social reproductive work required to survive. This alienation encounters resistance, as life-making activity can never be fully separated from the person who labours. Alan Sears explores the ways this alienation frames the processes of gender and sexual formation, showing how the organisation of work contributes to the development of a dominant regime of gendered sexualities, defined by a binary gender mapping of desire as heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual"-- Provided by publisher. Gender identity Economic aspects. Capitalism Social aspects. Mapping social reproduction theory. lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-03-12 0 HQ18.55 SEA B07512 2025-03-12 1 2025-03-12 1 4535 4535