@article{ref1,
title="Civil society and the sexual politics of difference",
journal="Sociological theory",
year="2001",
author="Meeks, Chet",
volume="19",
number="3",
pages="325-343",
abstract="This paper discusses the sexual politics of anti-normalization within the context of the sociological discussions of civil society and the public sphere. The sexual politics of anti-normalization is less centered around &quot;identity&quot; as a means of securing group solidarity and representing sexual communities in civil society. A politics of anti-normalization comprehends identity as a means of normalizing and regulating sexual desire and difference. Anti-normalization entails the politicization of ethical-moral issues concerning sex and desire and the production of sexual differences beyond the usual opposition of heterosexuality to homosexuality. I discuss the ways that the theoretical discourses on civil society reduce conceptions of difference to identity and develop a framework for analyzing the sexual politics of difference &quot;beyond identity&quot; in the public sphere.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-2751",
doi="10.1111/0735-2751.00144",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00144"
}