{"product_id":"sexual-hegemony-statecraft-sodomy-and-capital-in-the-rise-of-the-world-system-paperback","title":"Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Chitty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSexual Hegemony\u003c\/i\u003e Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as twentieth-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule. Whether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state. Only by grasping sexuality as a field of social contention and the site of class conflict, Chitty contends, can we embark on a politics that destroys sexuality as a tool and an effect of power and open a front against the forces that keep us unfree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Chitty (1983-2015) was a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Max Fox is an editor of \u003ci\u003ePinko\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, a former editor of the\u003ci\u003e New Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Amphitheater of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Christopher Nealon is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and author of \u003ci\u003eFoundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51792723280160,"sku":"9781478009580","price":43.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/07108dc6aa614dbb511924b6acabb62d.webp?v=1780706809","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sexual-hegemony-statecraft-sodomy-and-capital-in-the-rise-of-the-world-system-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}