Popa De-centering queer theory

Communist sexuality in the flow during and after the Cold War
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5694-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Theory for a Global Age

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popa, Bogdan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Acknowledgments
PART I: COMMUNIST SEXUALITY IN THE FLOW
1 A materialist conception of queer theory
PART II: GENDER AND THE ERASURE OF MARXIST EPISTEMOLOGY
2 Productive bodies in early Soviet Marxism
3 The birth of gender epistemology during the US Cold War
4 Marxism and queer theory at the end of the Cold War
PART III: DE-CONTEXTUALIZING MARXISM
5 Abolition
6 Counterfetish
7 The unconscious
8 Trans
9 The future of queer communism
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bogdan Popa is a Researcher at the Center for Cultural Innovation and Creativity, Transilvania University of Brasov