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Regulating the Night

By: Huw Lemmey

The late Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony is a landmark book on how capitalism created the modern heterosexual family.

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For some on the left, a politics of sexuality is always ‘identity politics’. This is, at least, a positive development on the not-so-distant past, when homosexuality was regarded by many as a ‘bourgeois deviation’. According to the contemporary position, it’s good that gay people now enjoy some legal protections and rights, and bad that they […]

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For some on the left, a politics of sexuality is always ‘identity politics’. This is, at least, a positive development on the not-so-distant past, when homosexuality was regarded by many as a ‘bourgeois deviation’. According to the contemporary position, it’s good that gay people now enjoy some legal protections and rights, and bad that they […]

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For some on the left, a politics of sexuality is always ‘identity politics’. This is, at least, a positive development on the not-so-distant past, when homosexuality was regarded by many as a ‘bourgeois deviation’. According to the contemporary position, it’s good that gay people now enjoy some legal protections and rights, and bad that they […]

For some on the left, a politics of sexuality is always ‘identity politics’. This is, at least, a positive development on the not-so-distant past, when homosexuality was regarded by many as a ‘bourgeois deviation’. According to the contemporary position, it’s good that gay people now enjoy some legal protections and rights, and bad that they […]

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