Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

ISBN-13: 9781474419826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Bogdan Popa

Opis

Shame has often been considered a threat to democratic politics, and was used to degrade and debase sex radicals and political marginals. But certain forms of shame were also embraced by 19th-century activists in an attempt to reverse entrenched power dynamics.

Bogdan Popa brings together Ranciere's techniques of disrupting inequality with a queer curiosity in the performativity of shame to show how 19th-century activists denaturalised conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender. This study fills a glaring absence in political theory by undertaking a genealogy of radical queer interventions that predate the 20th century.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword: "But Officer..."; Part I: Shame and Queer Political Theory: 1. Queer Practices, or How to Unmoor Feminism from Liberal Feminism; 2. How to do Queer Genealogy with J.S. Mill; Part II: Counter-Figures: 3. Disturbing Silence: Mill and the Radicals at The Monthly Repository; 4. De-policing Humiliation: Political Rhetoric in Feminist Activism; 5. Shame as a Line of Escape: Victoria Woodhull, Dispossession, and Free Love; Part III: Queering Shame: 6. Does queer political theory have a future?; References; Index.