One-Dimensional Queer

ISBN-13: 9781509523559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Roderick Ferguson

Opis

The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet the origins of modern queer liberation are much more complicated and dynamic than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe.

Recenzje

"One-Dimensional Queer is as clear an account as you could hope to encounter of how race and sexuality came to be understood as separate formations in US history. The resultant mainstreaming of LGBT cultures has been disastrous in terms of seeing our way out of the current crisis we inhabit. Offering solutions as well as critique, Ferguson's book is destined to be a crucial part of any library of liberation."Jack Halberstam, Columbia University"In this searing critique of pink capitalism and rainbow-approved state violence, Ferguson slays the flat misnomer that the 1969 Stonewall Riots were only about gay sex. Instead, he brilliantly contextualizes Stonewall multi-dimensionally in histories of anti-racist and anti-imperialist rebellion."Steven W. Thrasher, The Guardian and Northwestern University

Spis treści

• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Multidimensional Beginnings of Gay Liberation
• Chapter 2. Gay Emancipation Goes to Market
• Chapter 3. Queerness and the One–Dimensional City
• Chapter 4. The Multidimensional Character of Violence
• Conclusion: The Historical Assumptions of Multidimensional Queer Politics
• Bibliography

O autorze

Roderick Ferguson is Professor of African American and Gender and Women′s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.