Shame
A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century
Published on 28. April 2017
978-1-4744-1983-3 (ISBN)
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A radical reframing of shame as a vital impetus of queer feminist activism
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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Edinburgh University Press
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