After queer theory : the limits of sexual politics /
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 signaling the end of anti homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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 signaling 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource(vii, 212 pages)) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849649858 1849649855 9781849649865 1849649863 9781849649872 1849649871 |