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Author: Billy Holzberg (King's College London, UK) ,
Jacqueline Gibbs (Middlesex University London, UK) ,
Aura Lehtonen (University of Greenwich, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.80cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9781350418523
ISBN 10: 1350418528
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 06 February 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Contemporary, affective, and beautifully written. Bad Sex recenters the political, personal, and wider significance of queer theory in popular culture during uncertain times. The intersectional and queer approach sets Bad Sex as a pivotal frame to examine popular culture, nostalgia, intimacy, representations on television, and what future possibilities could look like. -- Gemma Commane, Birmingham City University, UK Bad Sex explores how sex and sexuality are depicted on screen in shows from Fleabag to Euphoria. It charts the movement away from previous depictions of sex as either liberating or traumatizing, attending to the complex territory in between. The book makes a vital contribution to media and cultural studies. -- Suzanne Ferriss, Nova Southeastern University, USA
Contemporary, affective, and beautifully written. Bad Sex recenters the political, personal, and wider significance of queer theory in popular culture during uncertain times. The intersectional and queer approach sets Bad Sex as a pivotal frame to examine popular culture, nostalgia, intimacy, representations on television, and what future possibilities could look like. -- Gemma Commane, Birmingham City University, UK
Author Information
Jacqueline Gibbs is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at City St George’s, University of London, UK. Her research explores political and socio-cultural conceptualisations of vulnerability and care. She has published on these themes in Feminist Media Studies, MAI Feminism and Visual Cultures, Feminist Review and Sociological Review Magazine. Billy Holzberg is Lecturer in Social Justice at King's College London, UK. He is the author of Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and The Emotional Politics of Migration Control (2024). His research examines the sexual and affective politics that shape growing social inequalities, nationalism, and right-wing authoritarianism. Aura Lehtonen is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the author of The Sexual Logics of Neoliberalism in Britain: Sexual Politics in Exceptional Times (2023). Her research explores how difference, diversity and inequalities are understood, conceptualised and represented in contemporary culture and politics, with a specific focus on sexuality.
