Shame : : A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century / / Bogdan Popa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Popa, Bogdan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Taking on the Political : TAPO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

A radical reframing of shame as a vital impetus of queer feminist activismShame 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 Rancière’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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: “But Officer . . .” -- Acknowledgments -- PART I SHAME AND QUEER POLITICAL THEORY -- Chapter 1 Queer Practices, or How to Unmoor Feminism from Liberal Feminism -- Chapter 2 How to do Queer Genealogy with J. S. Mill -- PART II COUNTER-FIGURES -- Chapter 3 Disturbing Silence: Mill and the Radicals at the Monthly Repository -- Chapter 4 Performative Slurs: Political Rhetoric in Feminist Activism -- Chapter 5 Shame as a Line of Escape: Victoria Woodhull, Dispossession, and Free Love -- PART III QUEERING SHAME -- Chapter 6 Does Queer Political Theory Have a Future? -- References and Further Reading -- Index