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

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...

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