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The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics

Jakobsen, Janet R. · 2020

A critical examination of sexual politics in the United States that challenges the conventional narrative attributing gender and sexuality debates primarily to religious influence, instead situating sexual politics within broader social forces including economics, healthcare, war, and citizenship. Jakobsen argues for expanding possibilities for both religious freedom and sexual freedom simultaneously.

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What this book knows

Sex obsession in American politics is not a distraction from 'real' issues but the very mechanism through which modern freedom, normativity, and governance operate.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Absent
Religion: Primary

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Sex becomes politically central to modern freedom and hence to the conduct of modern democracy—the obsessive focus is the problem of modern freedom itself.
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A critique of normativity suggests the kaleidoscope can be broken open and a different set of relations—not just a rearranged pattern—could emerge.
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Religion, sex, secularism, freedom, race, gender, capitalism, nation, and state form kaleidoscopic patterns; their intertwining is an effect of multiple elements.
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All religions are understood to be focused on sexual morality—a presumption advanced by both progressive advocates and religious conservatives.
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Backlash against same-sex marriage began immediately, posing 'religious freedom' of vendors over gay couples' right to nondiscrimination in public accommodations.
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Race and sex are entwined in policy: family structure is repeatedly appealed to in debates about poverty, with marriage cast as the greatest antipoverty tool.
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