Reviews for The Politics of economic adjustment

The average rating for The Politics of economic adjustment based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-30 00:00:00 Michael Arnold I spent most of my time during graduate school reading and writing about queer theory, digging into my bisexuality and getting more and more comfortable with my sexuality until I felt comfortable coming out to my parents, my wife, and my friends. I owe so many academic books so much thanks for helping me recognise that I was a queer man, and it's because of them I feel comfortable writing it out and admitting it without shame. The only problem I ever had with much of the writing I read was that it discussed sex in a language that was often dense and largely unsexy. I opened every book desperate to find one author who would dig into the intellectual and introspective nature of sex between men but was always left stuck with Marxists or Freudians or Postmodernists who were more interested in discussing language than sexuality. Sex Between Men was the book I was looking for because this book is everything the title suggests and more. It's written in an approachable fashion so that the reader doesn't need multiple degrees to understand the material, but neither is this book just one long series of entries about where men put their cocks. This book is a real history and cultural examination about how men, from the time of World War II to the end of the 90s approached sex with other men, how they internalized an identity from the way they expressed this sex, it examines the changes in attitude toward sexuality, and it ultimately challenges how hedonism and reason were in constant struggle within the queer man's psyche over the last fifty years. I wish there were more books like Sex Between Men because few writers are able to actually dig into the actual erotic beauty that is queer sex and still manage to leave the reader with an intellectual position. As queer people assume more and more established roles in society, and as the closet doors open for more and more people, books like this are valuable because it records a history of sex as well as a record that men weren't just horned-up nut-cases. Queer Men have always tried to find themselves and find a sense of themselves sexually, and while they've struggled in the past, this book offers hope for the future as the next generation finds their own sexual being as they look back to the ones who came before.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-24 00:00:00 Pomshk Shk I enjoyed reading Sadownick's accounts of actual events that happened, and the way gay men used to interact and have sex with each other, but then when he starts philosophising, he goes off the deep end and it becomes unreadable. Especially when he uses his two favorite words, "differentiate" and "archetypal". He's just a little too full of himself.