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The End of the Homosexual?
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The End of the Homosexual? Paperback - 2013

by Dennis Altman

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From the author of the groundbreaking 1971 classic Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation comes a new work reflecting on all that has changed over the past four decades. In The End of the Homosexual? - part memoir/part politics - Dennis Altman connects what has happened within the changing queer world over the past forty years to larger social, political and cultural trends. This is a case study of both local and global change, yet one told from personal experience. Written engagingly, this timely new book explores the idea that major changes in the understanding of sexual and gender diversity reflect larger social and cultural shifts. For example, the internet has changed patterns of sexual behaviour as widely as did the contraceptive pill forty years ago. In both cases the changes were neither foreseen nor intended, and in both cases the impact of new technologies partly depended on political and ideological controls. Homosexuality has become a faultline for debates about western influence, and human rights. In this riveting and personally revealing work, Altman reflects on decades of cultural and political change and considers the future of sexuality: is this the end of the homosexual that gay liberationists predicted forty years ago?

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  • Title The End of the Homosexual?
  • Author Dennis Altman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
  • Publication date 2013
  • ISBN 9780702249815 / 0702249815
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.54 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.37 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Social change, Homosexuality - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013412723
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

About the author

Dennis Altman is a professor of politics and the director of the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University in Melbourne as well as a former visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. He is the author of 11 books, including "AIDS and the New Puritanism," "Defying Gravity," and "The Homosexualization of America."
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The End of the Homosexual?
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The End of the Homosexual?

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University of Queensland Press, 2013. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 150mm x 225mm. Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 256pp Dennis Altman, one of the preeminent academics studying gay and lesbian culture around the world, connects the changes that have happened in the queer world over the last 40 years to larger social, political, and cultural trends. Written engagingly, this timely book explores the idea that major changes in the understanding of sexual and gender diversity reflect larger social and cultural shifts. A case study of both local and global change told from a very personal viewpoint, The End of the Homosexual? reflects on decades of cultural and political change and considers the future of sexuality, asking whether the end of the homosexual predicted by gay liberationists 40 years ago is at hand..
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