Cruising Culture: Promiscuity, Desire and American Gaay Literature

Ben SantaMaria 2000



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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Promiscuous seexuality remains a central source of cultural fear and fascination, as seen in the resurgence of heated debates within American gaay culture on its place in the era of AIDS. Cruising Culture provides the first extensive critical examination of competing understandings and experiences of promiscuity, both in post-war American gaay culture and in American culture more broadly.In this original and provocative book, Ben Gove unpicks the root assumptions and contradictions which contribute to dominant punitive notions of promiscuous seex and desire. He challenges normative dichotomies between ‘good’ monogamous seexualities and ‘bad’ promiscuous seexualities by illustrating the inherent promiscuousness of all seexual desire, regardless of consciously expressed attitudes to seexual practice. The reader is guided through the maze of conflicting attitudes towards promiscuity in American gaay culture with innovative readings of texts by influential, but hitherto critically neglected, authors such as Andr


Review

Gove’s book really packs a punch. Rather than perceiving gaay popular fiction as a reflection of society’s behavioural patterns, he highlights its importance as a catalyst for change. In doing so, he brings the subject to life and makes it more accessible to everyone. Cruising Culture develops an important reading of the cultural contradictions of gaay promiscuity. He writes compellingly and accessibly about the complexity of fantasy the ecstasy and the distress of human desire.
— Jonathan Dollimore, author of Seexual Dissidence
I found this a wonderful piece of work. It is first-rate both as cultural critique and as literary analysis.
— Alexander Doty, author of Making Things Perfectly Queer
Rigorous and revealing.

— Gregory Woods, author of A History of Gaay Literature



About the Author

Ben Gove has taught at the University of Susseex and at Lehigh University.