Through an examination of the Aids epidemic and eugenics, Mottier's "The State in the Bedroom" explores how the political becomes personal, as well as how sexuality intersects with other determinants of the social order. Throughout the text, there is also a salient message about hegemony's role in this convergence, thus relating to Connell's (1993) Masculinities. Within a discussion of the Aids crisis, Mottier demonstrates the way in which race and "deviant sexuality," that is, one's straying away from the hegemonic ideal of heterosexuality, can subject an individual to subordination and marginalization (2). Like Connell, whose discussion of subordinated and marginalized masculinities highlights the manner in which homosexuals and men of
