s**ual Citizenship: The Material Construction of s**ualities By David Evans

Taylor & Francis

This provocative book provides a new grounding for the understanding of sexual rights. It examines the ways in which sexuality is constructed, with reference to the rights and lack of rights of homosexuals, transvestites, children and others. > This enthralling and provocative book provides a new grounding for the understanding of sexual rights. It argues that all varieties of sexuality under capitalism are materially constructed out of the complex interrelationship between the market and the state. The examples of different sexual rights and lack of rights that it examines include the experience of male homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites, transsexualists and children. Meticulous, focused and challenging, it will be required reading for anyone interested in modern human sexualities. > INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 SEXUALITY AS DISCOURSE AND SCRIPT; Chapter 2 SEXUAL RIGHTS AND COMMODITIES; Chapter 3 THE \u2018PERMISSIVE\u2019 WATERSHED; Chapter 4 HOMOSEXUAL CITIZENSHIP: ECONOMIC RI.