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Agency and Alliance in Public Discourses about Sexualities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Janet R. Jakobsen
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Abstract

Alliance politics is not always an easy proposition. In public discourses about sexualities, unexpected alliances and splits occur even as accomplished alliances fail to achieve their political goals. By considering the models of agency enacted in a series of these alliances, I question how lesbian and feminist and queer actors can more effectively pursue alliance politics in relation to VS. public policy.

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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 , Winter 1995 , pp. 133 - 154
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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