Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety

by Moran,Les

• ISBN13: 9780415300926
• ISBN10: 0415300924
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sexuality and the Politics of Violenceis a major new work offering a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the center of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology, and critical legal scholarship the book offers to transform the way we understand and respond to the challenges raised by violence. It breaks new ground in its examination of the rhetoric and politics of violence, property, home, cosmopolitanism, and stranger danger in the generation of safety and security. Using interviews, focus groups and surveys with lesbians and gay men, this important book draws upon "real life" experiences of safety and security. It raises some fundamental challenges to the law and order politics of existing scholarship and activism on homophobic hate crime.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
1 Violence, sexuality and cultures and spaces of safety	1	(14)
2 Violence for safety	15	(13)
3 Attachment to hate: the emotional dimensions of lesbian and gay crime control	28	(16)
4 The limits of law and order: individual responsibility	44	(13)
5 The rhetoric and politics of property	57	(26)
6 Comfort and the location of safety - home	83	(27)
7 Cosmopolitan safety	110	(31)
8 Stranger danger: the uses of estrangement and the politics of fear	141	(30)
9 Conclusion: the challenges of safety and security	171	(5)
Notes	176	(7)
References	183	(15)
Index	198