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Roger Lancaster

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Roger Lancaster is a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University. His research tries to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a changing world.

His award-winning books include Life is Hard (1992), Sex Panic and the Punitive State (2011), and The Struggle to be Gay—in Mexico, for Example (2024).


  • Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

    Edited by Amir Naaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez. With contributions by Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, and Marcas Lancaster.

    £17.99 Original price was: £17.99.£15.99Current price is: £15.99.
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