On sexual citizenship

Abstract This chapter outlines the central focus on sexual citizenship by locating this concept within the broader citizenship literature. This includes consideration of early theories of citizenship—liberalism, communitarianism, and civic republicanism—before moving on to consider more recent developments in citizenship theory. The concept of identity is also introduced within the context of the tension between the particular and the universal in political theory. Feminist and sexual citizenship are then introduced as attempts to work with this tension in the service of a radical programme of political transformation. Attempts to queer citizenship are discussed, and the central focus on a dialectic of ideology and utopia (as tradition and critique) is introduced.