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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789994703321

Titolo

Anarchism & sexuality : ethics, relationships and power / / edited by Jamie Heckert and Richard Cleminson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-80836-1

1-283-12697-4

9786613126979

1-136-80837-X

0-203-82844-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Social justice

Altri autori (Persone)

CleminsonRichard

HeckertJamie

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Anarchism - Philosophy

Sexual freedom

Politics and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface: Sexual anarchy, anarchophobia and dangerous desires; Chapter 1: Ethics,relationships and power:an introduction; Poetic interlude 1:; Chapter 2: Alexander Berkman:sexual dissidence in the first wave anarchist movement and its subsequent narratives; Chapter 3: Nobody knows what an insurgent body can do:questions for affective resistance; Poetic interlude 2:

Chapter 4: Post(-)anarchism and the contrasexual practices of cyborgs in dildotopia: or 'The War on the Phallus' Chapter 5: On anarchism:an interview with Judith Butler; Poetic interlude 3:; Chapter 6: Love and revolution in Ursula Le Guin's Four Ways to Forgiveness; Chapter 7: Structures of desire: postanarchist kink in the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany; Chapter 8: Fantasies of an anarchist sex educator; Poetic interlude 4:; Chapter 9: Sexuality issues in the Czech anarchist movement; Chapter 10: Amateurism and anarchism in



the creation of autonomous queer spaces

Chapter 11: Afterword:on the phenomenology of fishbowlsIndex; Untitled

Sommario/riassunto

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived as a book that aims to question, subvert and overflow authoritarian divisions between the personal and political; between sexual desires categorised as heterosexual or homosexual; between seemingly mutually exclusive activism and scholarship; between forms of expression such as poetry and prose; and between disciplinary categories of knowledge