Dr Christian Klesse
Tel: 0161 247 6424
E-mail: c.klesse@mmu.ac.uk
Room: 462 Geoffrey Manton Building
- sexuality and gender
- embodiment and body modification
- race/ethncity and racism
- non-monogamy and polyamory
- social movement politics (in particular sexual politics)
- social and cultural identities
- citizenship
- qualitative research methodologies
Select publications
Klesse, C. (2007) ‘Racialising the Politics Transgression: Body Modification in Queer Culture’ in S. Murray and J. Cadwallader (eds.) Special issue on body modification, Social Semiotics,September 2007, 17 (3): 275-292
Klesse, C. (2007) “How to be a Happy Homosexual?!” Non-monogamy and Governmentality in Relationship Manuals for Gay Men in the 1980s and 1990s”, The Sociological Review, August 2007, 55 (3): 571-591
Klesse, C. (2007) ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Post/modernisation Theories on the Intimate’, in Alejandro Cervantes-Carson and Nick Rumsfeld (eds.) The Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging. Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexaulity, Tijnmuiden: Rodopi: 59-79
Hartmann, J., Klesse, C., Wagenknecht, P., Fritzsche, B. and Hackmann, K. (eds.) (2007) Heteronormativität. Empirische Studien zu Geschlecht, Sexualität und Macht, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
Haritaworn, J., Lin, C.J. and Klesse, C. (eds.) (2006) Special issue on Non-monogamy and Polyamory of Sexualities 9 (5), December 2006
Klesse, C. (2006) ‘Polyamory and its “Others”: Contesting the Terms of Non-Monogamy’ in Haritaworn, J. et al. (eds.) Special issue on Non-monogamy, Sexualities 9 (5), December 2006: 565-583
Klesse, C. (2006) ‘Heteronormativity, Non-monogamy and the Marriage Debate in the Bisexual Movement’ in M. Barker and D. Langdridge (eds.) Special issue on Same-sex Marriage, The Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review, July 2006: 162-173
Klesse, C. (2006) ‘Beyond Visibility, Rights, and Citizenship – Critical Notes on Sexual Politics in the European Union’, Inter Alia, Issue No. 1, URL: http://www.interalia.org.pl/numery.php?nid=1&aid=8
Klesse, C. (2005) ‘Bisexual Women, Non-monogamy, and Differentialist Anti-Promiscuity Discourses’, Sexualities 8 (4): 445-464
Klesse, C. (2000) ‘”Modern Primitivism“: Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation’ in Mike Featherstone (ed.) Body Modification, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage: 15-39
Forthcoming publications
Klesse, C. (2007) The Spectre of Promiscuity. Gay Male and Bisexual Non-Monogamies and Polyamories, Ashgate (in print - publication date: 19th November 2007)
Klesse, C. (2007) ‘Polyamory – Von dem Versprechen, Viele zu lieben. Ein Kommentar zum Forschungsstand’, Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, December 2007, 20 (4) (in print)
Erel, U., Haritaworn, J., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. and Klesse, C. (2007) ‘On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk. Conceptualising Multiple Oppressions in Critical Sexuality Studies’ in Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Mikaye (eds.) Out of Place. Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality, Raw Nerve Books (in print)
Current work-in-progress
article on British South Asian gay and bisexual men’s accounts on non-monogamy
article on poststructuralism, queer theory and the question of identity in research methodology
research into transnational politics regarding sexual politics and sexual rights in Poland (together with Jon Binnie)