TY - GEN digital ID - 131559285 TI - The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom : Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn PY - 2016 SN - 9781137263872 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Affective and dynamic functions KW - Psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Personality development KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Environmental planning KW - psychosociale wetenschappen KW - psychologie KW - sociale psychologie KW - emoties KW - persoonlijkheidsleer KW - persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131559285 AB - This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights, offering instead a critique of the liberal imaginary that is at the base of the sexual rights-bearing subject. The book offers a notion of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism, one that is social, radically relational and psychically divided, and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual politics for our time. This book brings together political and cultural analysis of sexual rights discourse with a strong theory of the relational subject whose political investments and articulations depend on a political imaginary. This is a highly original and methodical text which will be of particular interest to academics and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, politics and psychology. ER -