How Long to Read What Do Gay Men Want?

How Long Does it Take to Read What Do Gay Men Want??

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read What Do Gay Men Want? by David Halperin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

“ Compelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn’ t waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done— it just does it.” — Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University How we can talk about sex and risk in the age of barebacking— or condomless sex— without invoking the usual bogus and punitive cliché s about gay men’ s alleged low self-esteem, lack of self-control, and other psychological “ deficits” ? Are there queer alternatives to psychology for thinking about the inner life of homosexuality? What Do Gay Men Want? explores some of the possibilities. Unlike most writers on the topic of gay men and risky sex, David Halperin liberates gay male subjectivity from psychology, demonstrating the insidious ways in which psychology’ s defining opposition between the normal and the pathological subjects homosexuality to medical reasoning and revives a whole set of unexamined moral assumptions about “ good” sex and “ bad” sex. In particular, Halperin champions neglected traditions of queer thought, including both literary and popular discourses, by drawing on the work of well-known figures like Jean Genet and neglected ones like Marcel Jouhandeau. He shows how the long history of of gay men’ s uses of “ abjection” can offer an alternative, nonmoralistic model for thinking about gay male subjectivity, something which is urgently needed in the age of barebacking. Anyone searching for nondisciplinary ways to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS among gay men— or interested in new modes of thinking about gay male subjectivity— should read this book. David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English, Professor of Women’ s Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.

How long is What Do Gay Men Want??

What Do Gay Men Want? by David Halperin is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What Do Gay Men Want? Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read What Do Gay Men Want? aloud.

What Reading Level is What Do Gay Men Want??

What Do Gay Men Want? is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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