Queering freedom / Shannon Winnubst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winnubst, Shannon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Boundaries--Social aspects.

Boundaries.

Differentiation (Sociology).

Dominance (Psychology).

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Radically reorienting, challenging, provocative, this book moves progressive philosophy, feminist and queer theory, critical discussions of race and racism forward. Prophetically, it calls for an interrogation of all our oppositional theory and politics, offering new and alternative visions."" -- bell hooks In Queering Freedom, Shannon Winnubst examines contemporary categories of difference -- sexuality, race, gender, class, and nationality -- and how they operate within the politics of dominate

Contents:

Introduction: The seduction of freedom

Demarcating the space of domination : the politics of freedom

Liberalism's neutral individual : delimiting racial and sexual difference

Is the mirror racist? : interrogating the space of whiteness

The place of sexual difference : idealizing heterosexual desire

Moving toward resistance : a politics without a future

Free to be queer : queer to be free

The temporality of whiteness : anticipating pleasure (and feeling nothin' but guilty)

The freedom of sovereignty : remembering lost pasts

Epilogue: A political note against same-sex marriage.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072918

1-282-07291-9

0-253-11211-7

OCLC:

476041176