De-centering queer theory : communist sexuality in the flow during and after the cold war / Bogdan Popa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popa, Bogdan, author.

Series:

Theory for a global age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Philosophy.

Homosexuality.

Marxian historiography.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Summary:

De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory's vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Communist sexuality in the flow

1. A materialist conception of queer theory

pt. II Gender and the erasure of Soviet Marxist epistemology

2. Productive bodies in eastern European Marxism

3. The birth of gender epistemology during the Cold War

4. Marxism and queer theory at the end of the Cold War

pt. III De-contextualizing Marxism

5. Abolition

6. Counterfetish

7. The unconscious

8. Trans

9. The future of queer communism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526156954

9781526156952

OCLC:

1241730757