ABSTRACT

Drawing on an international range of examples, from Che Guevarra to "The Crying Game," Profit and Pleasure leads the discussion of sexuality to a consideration of material reality and the substance of men and women's everyday lives.

chapter 1|36 pages

setting the terms

living sexual identity in the local-global scene

chapter 2|37 pages

the material of sex

marxism’s sexual material

chapter 3|37 pages

cultural study, commodity logic, sexual subjects

cultural management under neoliberalism

chapter 4|32 pages

queer visibility in commodity culture

chapter 5|32 pages

Sexual Alibis, Colonial Displacements:

Materializing Myth in

chapter 6|28 pages

Desire as a Class Act:

Lesbian in Late Capitalism the cultural turn: from class politics to symbolic exchange