{"product_id":"sexual-liberation","title":"Sexual\/Liberation","description":"Sexual\/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland. It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form of sexual liberation beyond the present objective of achieving equality within a grossly unequal social order. Centrally, the book offers a critical meditation on images of gay men circulating in post-marriage equality Irish culture. Such images tell us little about the actual lives of gay men but offer us considerable insight into the political imaginary – the values, norms, anxieties and contradictions – of the society in which those images circulate. The images of gay men, male bodies and male intimacy discussed are drawn from varied sources: Leo Varadkar’s media profile; digital portraits curated by men engaged in sex work; Irish Queer Archives; media, scholarly and artistic commemorations of Declan Flynn and Roger Casement; Joe Caslin’s murals. Taking inspiration from the ideas of Wendy Brown, Judith Butler and Herbert Marcuse, Sexual\/Liberation encourages us to re-think the political as sexual – to reflect on how our political perspectives are shaped by desires, needs, vulnerabilities and hopes. Above all, this book challenges us to move beyond a politics of identities and injuries and strive instead for a politics universal and radically humanist in its imaginative scope, anti-capitalist and revolutionary in its objectives.Author: Cronin, Michael G.,author\nContributors: Cronin, Michael G.,author\nBinding: paperback\nPublication Date: \nRelease Date: \nLanguages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis\nPublished\/Release Date: 7 Oct 2022\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\nPublisher\/Studio\/Brand: Cork University Press\nAuthor\/Director\/Artist: Michael G. Cronin\nDimension (cm): 184x114x13 mm\nPackage Dimension (cm): 13x184x114 mm\nItem Weight (g): 1050\nPackage Weight (g): 150","brand":"Cork University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67608434934057,"sku":"BK1782055231","price":61.39,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/5868\/0105\/files\/9781782055235.jpg?v=1791976954","url":"https:\/\/www.centloop.com\/products\/sexual-liberation","provider":"Centloop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}