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Davis, Oliver (2015) A special issue of Sexualities : bareback sex and queer theory across three national contexts (France, UK, USA). Sexualities, 18 (1-2). pp. 120-126. doi:10.1177/1363460715569144 ISSN 1363-4607.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460715569144
Abstract
To use the word ‘bareback’ to refer to condomless anal sex between men is to evoke the almost caricaturally US-American world of cowboys and rodeos to which the coinage of the term, in the mid-1990s, gestured salaciously (Rofes, 1998). This special issue offers new insight into bareback, as sexual practice and subcultural phenomenon, by investigating how it has been apprehended by queer theory and queer thinking within and across three national contexts: the US, in which bareback was first named and elaborated into an identifiable subculture and which is most prevalent in existing research (medical, sociological and historical alike), France and the UK. The dual objective is both to say something queer about bareback and to use bareback and the discussion it has sparked to reveal something about the respective states of queer thinking within these national contexts.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Unsafe sex, Gender identity | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sexualities | ||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||
ISSN: | 1363-4607 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 120-126 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1363460715569144 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 January 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 January 2016 |
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