: capitalism and the making of gendered sexualities Sears, Alan creator author. text bibliography enk 2025 monographic eng

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188 pages ; 22 cm. "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"-- 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. / Alan Sears. Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-178) and index. Gender identity Economic aspects Capitalism Social aspects HQ18.55 .S43 2025 9780745349435 0745349439 NjBwBT 250117 20250312125522.0 991107469515406196 eng