- Description
- xxvii, 131 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This text critically examines, argues, and demonstrates how the sex positive movement is complicit in the perpetuation of White Supremacy and anti-Black bias in the field of human sexualities, offering white sexuality professionals embodied ethical antiracist strategies for sexual inclusion and transformational change. In a world where whiteness is considered the sexual and bodily norm, Carole Clements proposes that the sex-positive movement has failed to examine how it maintains White Supremacy through the guise of inclusivity, and how the lack of critical understanding of what "sex positive" means has caused harm to BIPOC individuals and communities alike. Pivoting away from a sex-positive/sex-negative binary, this book establishes a sex-critical discourse by introducing and operationalizing the term "White-sex Supremacy" to produce a racially just and embodied sexual ethic. Chapters begin by looking at sexual science and its racial origins, recounting how the science of sex and science of race both strived for positivist legitimacy in the same historical moment. Moving from the social construction of racial and sexual hierarchies, chapters look at eugenics and sexology's early "sex positive" pioneers, such as Margaret Sanger and Havelock Ellis, before examining the establishment of a race-evasive yet distinctly white sexual normality reliant on sex-positive framing. It shows how sex positivity became a popularized term without clear definition other than "good," and how the legacy of white fragility leads to complicit white silence and the erasure of Black sexualities. Theoretical, practical, and accessible, it offers tangible methods for white sexuality professionals and scholars to learn accompliceship (over allyship) to promote antiracist sexual justice activism. This book is essential reading for white sexuality professionals, including sex educators, sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, licensed professional counselors, psychotherapists, gynaecologists, and nurses, who are committed to examining their whiteness in the context of their commitment to sex positivity"--
- Series Statement
- Leading conversations on Black sexualities and identities
- Uniform Title
- Leading conversations on Black sexualities and identities.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781032015750
- 1032015756
- 9781032039725
- 1032039728
- 9781003190035 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023011053
- OCLC
- YBP 2023011053
- Author
Clements, Carole (College teacher), author.
- Title
Sex positivity and white-sex supremacy : ending complicity in Black body erasure / Carole Clements.
- Publisher
New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Copyright Date
©2024
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Leading conversations on Black sexualities and identities
Leading conversations on Black sexualities and identities.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Clements, Carole (College teacher) Sex positivity and white-sex supremacy New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781003190035 (DLC) 2023011054