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

Bogdan Popa

Shame

A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

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Bogdan Popa, Oberlin College

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: December 2017
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474419833

Subjects:: Social and Population History, Politics: General Interest, History, Politics and International Relations
Series:: Taking on the Political

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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 embraced certain forms of shame to denaturalise conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender.

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A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Foreword
pp vii-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xiii

List of Illustrations
pp xiv-xiv

Part I - Shame and Queer Political Theory
pp 1-2

1 - Queer Practices, or How to Unmoor Feminism from Liberal Feminism
pp 3-40

2 - How to do Queer Genealogy with J. S. Mill
pp 41-78

Part II - Counter-Figures
pp 79-80

3 - Disturbing Silence: Mill and the Radicals at the Monthly Repository
pp 81-114

4 - Performative Slurs: Political Rhetoric in Feminist Activism
pp 115-150

5 - Shame as a Line of Escape: Victoria Woodhull, Dispossession, and Free Love
pp 151-180

Part III - Queering Shame
pp 181-182

6 - Does Queer Political Theory Have a Future?
pp 183-193

References and Further Reading
pp 194-204

Index
pp 205-218

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