TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Civil society and the sexual politics of difference
JO  - Sociological theory
A1  - Meeks, Chet
SP  - 325
EP  - 343
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 "identity" 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 "beyond identity" in the public sphere.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-2751
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00144
ID  - ref1
ER  -