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Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

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Series: Taking on the Political

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1474419828
ISBN13: 9781474419826
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 9 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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