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Monahan, M. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7096-3919,
2019.
'Tory-normativity' and gay rights advocacy in the British Conservative Party since the 1950s.
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21 (1), pp. 132-147.
ISSN 1369-1481
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Abstract
Gay rights advocacy in the Conservative party since the 1950s played-down its difference from Conservative beliefs by emphasising pragmatism over emancipation; discretion over celebration; and responsibility over rights. This positioning was allied to a construction of gay men and women in the image of the idealised conservative citizen: law-abiding, entrepreneurial, and ultimately familial—a process I label "Tory-normativity". Tory-normativity introduced gay rights advocacy into the party in an acceptable form, and consequently caused party policy to develop. Ultimately, the construction of Tory-normativity has been used to depoliticise gay identity: initially gay men, and then from the 2000s onwards, gay men and women.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | The British Journal of Politics and International Relations | ||||
| Creators: | Monahan, M. | ||||
| Publisher: | SAGE in association with the Political Studies Association | ||||
| Date: | 1 February 2019 | ||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1369-1481 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||
| Date Added: | 25 Oct 2018 15:10 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2019 10:22 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34745 |
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