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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807961903321

Autore

Popa Bogdan G.

Titolo

Shame : a genealogy of queer practices in the nineteenth century / / Bogdan Popa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-4744-3522-X

1-4744-1983-6

1-4744-1984-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Taking on the political

Disciplina

320.94

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Europe - History - 19th century

Europe Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 embraced certain forms of shame to denaturalise conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender.