Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile

by Lessie Jo Frazier

Book Overview

Desired States challenges the notion that in some cultures, sex and sexuality have become privatized and located in individual subjectivity rather than in public political practices and institutions. Instead, the book contends that desire is a central aspect of political culture. Based on fieldwork and archival research, Frazier explores the gendered and sexualized dynamics of political culture in Chile, an imperialist context, asking how people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813597218
• ISBN13: 9780813597218
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher