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The Pleasure Principle Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom
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The Pleasure Principle Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom Paperback - 2000

by Michael Bronski


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Drawing on a half-century of gay history, Michael Bronski brilliantly maps out the fascinating and often ironic interplay between culture and politics. In doing so, he illustrates how and why most heterosexuals need and love certain aspects of gay culture, even though this culture also causes them enormous anxiety and fear. "The Pleasure Principle" offers a profound and disturbing analysis of the roots--and the damaging results--of Western culture's inability to deal with both pleasure and sexuality, especially as they are embodied for many by contemporary gay culture.

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DURING THE 1992 Republican National Convention, right-wing columnist and demagogue Pat Buchanan declared that America was in the midst of a cultural war that imperiled the country's moral and political well-being.

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  • Title The Pleasure Principle Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom
  • Author Michael Bronski
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Publisher Stonewall Inn Editions, NY
  • Date February 23, 2000
  • ISBN 9780312252878

About the author

Michael Bronski is the author of "Culture Clash "(South End Press, 1984). His essays have appeared in numerous magazines, and journals, and he has lectured widely on art and politics. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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