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The War on Sex
The War on Sex is a 2017 sociology book edited by University of Michigan professor David M. Halperin, and SUNY Albany professor Trevor Hoppe. Contributors include Judith Levine, Scott De Orio,[1] and Roger Lancaster. It is particularly significant that Halperin co-edited the book and authored the introduction, as he is widely considered a key figure in Queer Theory, having penned a popular definition of Queer:
Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence.[2]
Across 17 academic essays, The War on Sex examines the rise of sexual surveillance in the United States starting in the 1970s, the criminalization of HIV, the development of sex offenders as a criminal category as well as their registration by the hundreds of thousands, the persecution of sex workers by self-proclaimed anti-sex trafficking NGOs, and sex panics related to children and satanism in American society.
- Read The War on Sex (2017) as a PDF (Annas Archive, external link).
- Wikipedia entry for the book.
References
- ↑ See De Orio's wider work, such as Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights (2017).
- ↑ Originally from Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography.