Description
Modernity and sexuality, Bech argues, are both intertwined and changing. He concludes by proposing that, having been created by modernity, 'the homosexual' is now disappearing in conjunction with the changes transforming modernity itself.
Reviews
"Henning Bech is one of the most original and thought-provoking interpreters of contemporary culture who emerged in recent years in European social science. The publishers are to be congratulated on making his magnum opus available to English readers, who will find Bech's work unlike anything they read thus far, opening entirely new horizons."
"On the face of it, this book is a most thorough and profound insight into the homosexual experience; but it is also a most synthetic, multifaceted analysis of contemporary living, of which that experience is a sample, an epitome and condensed expression. An exemplary exercise in reaching the totality through a case study." Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds
"Henning Bech is one of the most original and stimulating contemporary writers on sexuality. When Men Meet is an extraordinarily ambitious work about the conditions and possibilities of life in modern society, and Bech produces a dazzling melange of insights and observations. A significant contribution to debates within gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, as well as wider debates about modernity and postmodernity, it could become a landmark book." Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University, London
Book Information
ISBN 9780745615592
Author Henning Bech
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint Polity Press
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 510g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm * 26mm