Shame : a Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century.

Shame has often been considered a threat to democratic politics, and was utilized to degrade and debase sex radicals and political marginals. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by political activists? How has it been used to reverse entrenched power dynamics? This text brings...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popa, Bogdan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Colección:Taking on the Political Ser.
Temas:
1800-1899
Marginality, Social > Europe > History > 19th century.
Marginality, Social
Politics and government
Europe > Politics and government > 19th century.
Europe > Politics and government > 1789-1900.
Europe > Politique et gouvernement > 1789-1900.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Part I: Shame and Queer Political Theory
  • Chapter 1 Queer Practices, or How to Unmoor Feminism from Liberal Feminism
  • The Argument
  • What is Shame?
  • What is Queer Genealogy?
  • Queer Practices
  • Political Theory and The Police
  • Why Nineteenth-Century Feminists?
  • The Structure of the Book
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 4 Performative Slurs: Political Rhetoric in Feminist Activism
  • The Contagious Diseases Acts and Josephine Butler's Rhetoric of Humiliation
  • Mill's Testimony against the Contagious Diseases Acts and the Policing of Feminist Activism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 6 Does Queer Political Theory Have a Future?
  • References and Further Reading
  • Index.

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