Eros and alienation : capitalism and the making of gendered sexualities / Alan Sears.

By:

Sears, Alan [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Mapping social reproduction theoryPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2025Description: 188 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9780745349435
0745349439

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HQ18.55 .S43 2025

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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.

List(s) this item appears in: GENDER STUDIES

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona	HQ18.55 SEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		B07512

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.