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The Sexual Citizen

Weeks, Jeffrey·1998·Theory, Culture & Society
DOI 10.1177/0263276498015003003
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The `sexual citizen' is a new phenomenon in the erotic world, and a new player in the political and cultural arena, a product of the new primacy of sexual subjectivity in contemporary societies. Living at the fateful juncture of private claims to space, self-determination and pleasure, and public claims to rights, justice and recognition, the sexual citizen is a hybrid being, who tells us a great deal about the pace and scale of cultural transformation and new possibilities of the self and identity. Consideration of the sexual citizen also offers a new angle on recent debates about citizenship in all its complex dimensions, bringing to the fore issues that have often been occluded in these debates. The article explores these issues through the prism of three significant social developments: the democratization of relationships; the emergence of new subjectivities; and the proliferation of new `stories' about the body, the erotic and intimate life which both signal and encourage the growth of social and cultural capital, and in turn lead to new demands on the institutions of political life.

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Metadata

Authors
Weeks, J.
Venue
Theory, Culture & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1998-08
Volume
15
Issue
3-4
Pages
35-52
ISSN
  • 0263-2764 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3616
DOI
10.1177/0263276498015003003
OpenAlex
W2008321766
Cited by
436
References
1
FWCI
17.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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