De-Centering Queer Theory : Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War

Name: De-Centering Queer Theory
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526174659
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ISBN: 9781526174659

by Bogdan Popa

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Theory for a Global Age

ISBN-10 1526174650

ISBN-13 9781526174659

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 12th, 2023

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 328 grams

Dimensions 13.90 x 21.50 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Film theory & criticism Film history, theory or criticism The Cold War Social theory Cold wars and proxy conflicts

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies. -- .

De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory’s vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings. -- .

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