The emergence of AIDS in contemporary culture has not only produced a vast discourse on the disease but has provoked an anxious proliferation of sites of erotic danger. In Erotic Welfare , Linda Singer argues that we are currently living in an "age of epidemic", fueled by a "panic logic" in which contemporary discourse on sexuality and on a variety of social problems - teenage pregnancy, prostitution, and drug addiction, have come to replicate the discourse of contagion. Singer traces the effects of epidemic on the growth of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality, and explores the ways this development has affected women's efforts to secure reproductive freedom; the construction of femininity within the media; and efforts to displace the hegemony of the nuclear family in the cultural imaginary. Her work forms a trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and their pleasures have become dense sites of regulatory power.
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New York, Fatal Attraction, New Right, Sun Tse, Linda Singer, Mary Beth Whitehead, Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, The Laugh of the Medusa, The Newly Born Woman, Female Sexual Slavery, Luce Irigaray, New Jersey, Regulating Women, University of Minnesota Press New!
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sexual epidemic, epidemic logic, epidemic conditions, erotic welfare, fertility technology, market segmenting, perpetual promise, sexual safety, panic sex, erotic economy, new sobriety, legal mother, strategic utility, woman philosopher, sexual discourse, repressive hypothesis, disciplinary apparatus, feminine writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fatal Attraction, New Right, Sun Tse, Linda Singer, Mary Beth Whitehead, Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, The Laugh of the Medusa, The Newly Born Woman, Female Sexual Slavery, Luce Irigaray, New Jersey, Regulating Women, University of Minnesota Press New!
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