Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism
Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism makes new connections between post-feminism and queer theory to explore the complexities of contemporary gender and sexuality. In a wide-ranging examination of sex education, safe sex, and sexual healthcare, this book demonstrates how queer post-feminist discourses practically shape young womens lives.
Bisexual, pansexual, non-binary, queer. With the ever-expanding scope of gender and sexuality categories, some feminists have bemoaned a shrinking of the lesbian world. But how do young women understand these identity politics? Drawing on extensive interviews with queer young people, this book offers a timely exploration of the links between identity, sex, and health.
Utilising cross-disciplinary perspectives grounded in international social science research, this book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in sexuality and sexual health and those in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, public health, social work, and sociology. The book also offers implications for practice, suitable for policy-makers, health practitioners, and activist audiences.
Ruby Grant is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania. Informed by intersectional feminist philosophies and queer theory, Grants research focuses on queer identity politics, sexual citizenship, and gender equity and diversity.
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9 Queer in Africa
LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism
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12 Disability and Animality
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13 Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism
Young Womens Health and Identity Politics
Ruby Grant
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Sexual Citizenship and
Queer Post-Feminism
Young Womens Health and
Identity Politics
Ruby Grant
First published 2021
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Title: Sexual citizenship and queer post-feminism : young womens health and identity politics / Ruby Grant.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge advances in critical diversities | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020013921 (print) | LCCN 2020013922 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367341794 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429324321 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sexual minoritiesIdentity. | Identity politics. | Young womenSexual behavior. | Sexual health. | Feminist theory. | Queer theory.
Classification: LCC HQ73 .G73 2021 (print) | LCC HQ73 (ebook) | DDC 306.76dc23
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Contents
This book would not have been possible without the people who agreed to participate in this inquiry. Their willingness to share their stories and the trust they put in me were truly humbling. Not only did they provide me with a snapshot into their intimate lives but they also helped me make sense of my own identity politics along the way.
Associate Professor Meredith Nash, my PhD supervisor, inspired me to undertake this project. I am grateful for her years of mentorship, tough love, and unwavering support. I would also like to thank Dr Louise Richardson-Self, Professor Imelda Whelehan, and Dr Emily Hansen for their advice and feedback on earlier drafts of this work. Thanks also to the staff and students in the University of Tasmania School of Social Sciences for the collegiality and support. I also acknowledge my thesis examiners Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen and Associate Professor Deb Dempsey for their generous comments and advice that have helped develop this book.
Special thanks to Professor Yvette Taylor and all at Routledge for their patience and support for my work.
The 2016-2017 associates at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Vernica Zebada, Dr Diana Sierra Becerra, Dr Julie de Chantal, Dr Rachel Brown, and Dr Helena Tolvhed, provided essential advice and new perspectives that helped me develop what became this book. Thanks also to Dr Banu Subramaniam and Nayiree Roubinian at the Center for the amazing opportunity to join the Five Colleges community and for your practical support during my time in the United States.
I am indebted to Carl and Bonnie Vigeland for opening their beautiful home in Amherst to me and providing me with an ideal space to think and write.
Special thanks to Susan Ditter, Liv Hogarth, and Lucy Shannon at Working It Out, Dr Bec Dorgelo, and TasPride for the practical assistance in recruitment.
I also wish to thank the healthcare practitioners who took time out of their busy schedules to speak to me for my research. It isn't always easy to prioritise LGBTIQ-inclusive professional practice and your efforts do not go unnoticed.
The research underpinning this book was conducted with the support of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. I am also incredibly grateful to Mrs Janet Cretan for her generous Elite Research Scholarship, and also to the University of Tasmania Institute for the Study of Social Change PhD Writing Fellowship.
