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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Concepts for Critical Psychology |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: (un)settling violence; Why discourses of violence matter; Approaching sexuality and/as politics; 'Lesbian' and other slippery terms; Knowing homophobia- related violence; Marriage and murder; (Un)disciplining psychology; 1 "Double the trouble": gender and sexuality (un)corrected; Part 1: Gender and Sexual Disciplining; "There's a human, and then there's a lesbian": the lesbian- as-lack; "Something tragic happened to you": injurious origins of an identity |
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"With me, it's double the trouble": subverting the rule of men"Making boys kill them": blaming (young) lesbians; (Dis)placing men: taking on/up masculinity; Part 2: Lesbians (En)Counter Violence; "Don't put yourself in a vulnerable position": strategies of feminised self-care; "We want to be there, where trouble is": inside/outside the place of politics; 2 The violence of racialisation, the racialisation of violence; Facing the race and sexuality intersection; Historicising violence and queerness; "We don't have it": black danger and classy white safety |
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"It's a Western thing": culture of violence3 View to a kill: the politics of spectacle; Sexing the crime, correcting the queer; Evidencing the black lesbian's dead-end; The natural attraction of queers and danger; Manufacturing queer fear; "Besides being killed": speaking back to the spectacle; 4 Assimilation and ascendance: violent differentiation in post-colonial context; "Dying for justice": performing a political paradox; The geopolitics of global gayness; "Like any other person around": aspiring to homonormativity; Queer cultural contest; 5 Law, education and a not-only-LGBT revolution |
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"Why should I wait to be raped?": law as problem and solution"Make them understand": establishing order through education; "Not only an LGBT revolution": expanding the political 'we'; Conclusion: troubling the dreams of political possibility; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence constitute subjectivities that enact violence and that are rendered vulnerable to it, as well as shaping political possibilities to act against violence. Blackwashing Homophobia critiques prevailing discourses through which violence and its queer targets are normatively understood, exploring the knowledge regimes in which multiple forms of othering are both reproduced and/or resisted. This book draws on primary research on lesbian subjectivity and violence in South Africa examining the intersections of sexual, gender, race and class identities, and the contemporary politics of violence in a postcolonial context:" What are the contending ways of knowing queers and the violence they face? " How are the causes, characters, consequence of, and 'cures' for, violence constructed through such knowledges and what are their power effects? The book explores these questions and their implications for how violence, as an instrument of power, might be countered. Blackwashing Homophobia is a timely intervention for theorising the discourse of homophobia-related violence and what it reveals and conceals, enables and hinders, in relation to queer identities and political imaginaries in times of violence. The book's interdisciplinary approach to the topic will appeal to social and political scientists, philosophers and psychology professionals, as well as to advanced psychology undergraduates and postgraduates alike."--Provided by publisher |
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Homophobia -- South Africa
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Lesbians -- Violence against -- South Africa
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Lesbians, Black -- Violence against -- South Africa
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Gay people -- Violence against -- South Africa
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Lesbians -- Abuse of -- South Africa
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Gays -- Violence against
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Homophobia
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315436371 |
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131543637X |
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9781315436364 |
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1315436361 |
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9781315436340 |
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1315436345 |
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9781138219045 |
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1138219045 |
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9781138219052 |
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1138219053 |
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