After queer theory : the limits of sexual politics / James Penney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penney, James, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. Through a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism is paradoxically to abandon the exhausted premise of a politicised sexuality. After Queer Theory argues that it is necessary to wrest sexuality from the dead end of identity politics, opening it up to a universal emancipatory struggle beyond the reach of capitalism's powers of commodification.

Contents:

Introduction : after queer theory - manifesto and consequences

Currents of queer

The universal alternative

Is there a queer Marxism?

Capitalism and schizoanalysis

The sameness of sexual difference

From the antisocial to the immortal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849649865

1849649863

9781849649858

1849649855

OCLC:

923335824

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access