"No Bare Bottoms": The Responsibilization of the Good Gay Citizen in Icelandic Media Discourses 1990–2010.

This article explores how gay men in Iceland were constructed as good responsible citizens through neoliberal discourses from 1990 to 2010. Drawing on interviews with gay men in Icelandic magazines, we focus on three discursive formations of responsibilization that reveal the technologies of agency...

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Publicado en:Journal of Homosexuality Vol. 71; no. 6; pp. 1465 - 1487
Autores principales: Ellenberger, Íris, Vilhjálmsson, Þorsteinn
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2024
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