The Politics of Everybody

Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Bibliographic Data

ID19902430
AuthorsHolly Lewis (corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Politics of Everybody (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherZed Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350225602
OpenAlexW4236880255
Open LibraryOL51667809M
ISBN9781350225602
LanguageEN
Citations received27

The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms ‘man', ‘woman', and ‘other’ within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer and Marxist analysis. Those who have propose the key contested site to be that of desire/sexual expression. This emphasis on desire, Lewis argues, is symptomatic of the neoliberal project and has led to a continued fascination with the politics of identity. By arguing that Marxist analysis is in fact most beneficial to gender politics within the arena of body production, categorization and exclusion Lewis develops a theory of gender and the sexed body that is wedded to the realities of a capitalist political economy. Boldly calling for a new, materialist queer theory, Lewis defines a politics of liberation that is both intersectional, transnational, and grounded

Aesthetics · Identity (music) · Identity politics · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy

Tools

Open DOILibgen