Holly Lewis

The Politics of Everybody (eBook, ePUB)

Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer and Marxist analysis. Those who have propose the key contested site to be that of desire/sexual expression. This emphasis on desire, Lewis argues, is symptomatic of the neoliberal project and has led to a continued fascination with the politics of identity. By arguing that Marxist analysis is in fact most beneficial to gender politics within the arena of body production, categorization and exclusion Lewis develops a theory of gender and the sexed body that is wedded to the realities of a capitalist political economy.

Boldly calling for a new, materialist queer theory, Lewis defines a politics of liberation that is both intersectional, transnational, and grounded in lived experience.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783602902
• Artikelnr.: 44756457

Autorenporträt

Holly Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University where she teaches continental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. from the European Graduate School, as well as a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania where her research focused on US and Latin American Studies with an emphasis on Women and Gender.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
The Politics of Everybody
Communitarian Ideals and Culture Wars
How is Every Body Sorted?
1. Terms of the Debate
Debates in Western Gender Politics
What is Capitalism?
Philosophy and the Marxian Roots of Queer Political Thought
Conclusion to Chapter One
2. Marxism and Gender
Don't be vulgar...
From the Woman Question to the Gender Question
Marxism at the Center and the Periphery
Marx on Women
Marx on Gender and Labor
The Major Works: Marx's 'Ethnological Notebooks' and Engels' 'Origin of the
Family, Private Property, and the State'.
Early Marxist and Socialist Feminism
Theories of Social Reproduction
Race and Social Reproduction
Sexism, Marxism, and The Second Wave
3. Queer Politics and the Possibilities of a Queer/Trans Marxism
Beyond Idealist Models of Oppression
Ideology and Repetition: Race
Ideology and Repetition: Gender
Why Class is Not a Moral Category
The Rise of Queer Politics in the Mid to Late 20th Century
Marxist Critiques of Queer Theory
Beyond Homonormativity and Homonationalism
The Spinning Compass of American Queer Politics
Towards an Internationalist Queer Marxism
Conclusions
Solidarity is not Community
Ten Axioms Towards a Queer Marxist Future