The Role of Sexuality in the History of Capitalism

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Sexual hegemony is about how to think about the regulation of sexuality as a technique of bourgeois rule. Chris seems to reach for hegemony to make sense of how sexuality is managed beyond mere repression of deviant sexual practices, he says. He sort of historicizes the emergence of sexuality as an object that's somehow separate from forms of direct domination, let's say.

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