The Paradox of Evil/Homosexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3653299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juhyun Woo (Chung-Ang University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273-296 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2014.970828 |
| PMID | 25264568 |
| OpenAlex | W2067499734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
In this article, I analyze "personal experience stories around the homosexual" that entered into the parliamentary debates on the Sexual Offences Act in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and shaped understandings of sexual citizenship in particular ways. Specific attention is paid to the effects of political storytelling involved in the making of British sexual citizens. I explore how the paradoxical figure of the evil homosexual emerges and how politicians, in telling stories of the evil homosexuality, police the border that can effectively separate sexual outsiders from sexual citizens. I conclude with an analysis of these stories, and how their telling is closely linked to the postwar social welfare thinking in Britain
Criminology · Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Male Homosexuality · Men who have sex with men · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Syphilis · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Virology
Imagining crime
Narrative Discourse
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
Talking Voices
Building a More Stately Closet
'Horrible Temptations'
Sexuality
Telling Sexual Stories
New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality
Desiring difference, desiring similarity
Inventing a ‘Lesbian Age of Consent’? The History of the Minimum Age for Sex between Women in the UK
Narrative
Sexual Blackmail
Permissiveness and Control
Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics of Normalisation
Evil, a Challenge to Philosophy and Theology
Fragmented Narratives and Multiple Tellers
Male Prostitution in the Twentieth Century
Sex, Politics and Society
The Journal of Homosexuality
Twice Told Tales
Claim-Backing and Other Explanatory Genres in Talk
The Narrativization of Real Events
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |