The ethics of marginality : a new approach to gay studies /

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Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration, and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Champagne, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1995.
Temas:
Homosexuality > Philosophy.
Marginality, Social.
Homosexuality and art.
Homosexuality and literature.
Homosexualité > Philosophie.
Homosexualité et art.
Homosexualité et littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Homosexuality and art
Homosexuality and literature
Homosexuality > Philosophy
Marginality, Social
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration, and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique, which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the ""rights"" discourse within which much of contemporary gay studies is positioned. Champagne argues that in the modern West, culturally marginalized people such as gays cannot define and legitimate their own existence outside the framewor.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xlvi, 219 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816686216
0816686211

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