Böcker av Steven Seidman

Offers the first sustained account of the post-closeted gay world, Steven Seidman argues that a new configuration of gay life is taking shape, and that the closet is disappearing.

Social postmodernism offers a transformative political vision and addresses the live questions in identity politics. The postmodern focus on race, sexuality and gender is sharpened by integrating the micro-social concerns of the new social movements and macro-institutional and cultural analysis.

What are the implications for social theory of taking difference seriously? In this 1997 book, Steven Seidman offers a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of social theory and sexual politics, and argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to questions of difference in theory and politics.