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| Title: | "What Lips These Lips Have Kissed": Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing |
| Authors: | Sloop, John M., 1963-
Morris, Charles E., 1969- |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2006 |
| Publisher: | National Communication Association (U.S.) |
| Citation: | Morris, Charles E. and John Sloop. "'What Lips These Lips Have Kissed': Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 3.1 (2006): 1-26. |
| ???metadata.dc.subject.lcsh???: | Kissing -- Political aspects
Gay men in mass media
Heterosexism
Moral panics |
| Abstract: | In this essay, we argue that man-on-man kissing, and its representations, have been insufficiently mobilized within apolitical, incremental, and assimilationist pro-gay logics of visibility. In response, we call for a perspective that understands man-on-man kissing as a political imperative and kairotic. After a critical analysis of man-on-man kissing's relation to such politics, we discuss how it can be utilized as a juggernaut in a broader project of queer world making, and investigate ideological, political, and economic barriers to the creation of this queer kissing "visual mass." We conclude with relevant implications regarding same-sex kissing and the politics of visible pleasure. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3179
http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1080/14791420500505585 |
| Appears in Collections: | John Sloop
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