The Politics of Everybody : Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
ISBN: 9781783602896
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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Subjects: Social Science;

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 in lived experience.Test

Holly Lewis is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, where she teaches continental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy. She holds a PhD from the European Graduate School, as well as a masters from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focused on US and Latin American studies with an emphasis on women and gender.

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