Shame

A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

Bogdan Popa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4139-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Shame 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.

Bogdan Popa is Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He has been published in the Annual Review of Critical Psychology and contributed chapters to books including Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent (edited by Tamara Caraus and Camil Alexandru Parvu, Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 2014). This is his first book.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForeword: "But Officer..."

Part I: Shame and Queer Political Theory

1.Queer Practices, or How to Unmoor Feminism from Liberal Feminism

The Argument
What is Shame?
Queer Genealogy
Queer Practices and Liberal Feminism
Political Theory and The Police
Why Nineteenth-Century Feminists?
The structure of the book

2. How to do Queer Genealogy with J.S. Mill

How to "Part company with the world"
Mill in drag, shame, and silence
"Barbarians" and "lunatics": harsh language and Mill’s rhetoric
Conclusion

Part II: Counter-Figures

3. Disturbing Silence: Mill and the Radicals at The Monthly Repository

Unitarian Radicals and performativity
Beyond liberal shame
Mill’s disturbing silence and the Fox Affair
Conclusion

4. De-policing Humiliation: Political Rhetoric in Feminist Activism

The CD Acts and Josephine Butler’s rhetoric of humiliation
Mill’s Testimony against the CD Acts and the policing of feminist activism
Conclusion

5. Shame as a Line of Escape: Victoria Woodhull, Dispossession, and Free Love

Woodhull’s shaming and sexual transgressions
Shame as dispossession
The Police and how to close the lines of escape
Conclusion

Part III: Queering Shame

6. Does queer political theory have a future?

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Taking on the Political
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4744-4139-4 / 1474441394
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4139-1 / 9781474441391
Zustand	Neuware