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The Politics of Everybody

Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection

Holly Lewis

Constituting a paradigm shift in gender theory, this book argues that only a materialist queer theory wedded to the realities of capitalism is capable of creating a true politics of liberation.
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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.

Author Bio

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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction 
    • The Politics of Everybody
    • Communitarian Ideals and Culture Wars 
    • How is Every Body Sorted? 
  • 1. Terms of the Debate 
    • Debates in Western Gender Politics 
    • What is Capitalism? 
    • Philosophy and the Marxian Roots of Queer Political Thought 
    • Conclusion to Chapter One 
  • 2. Marxism and Gender 
    • Don't be vulgar... 
    • From the Woman Question to the Gender Question 
    • Marxism at the Center and the Periphery 
    • Marx on Women 
    • Marx on Gender and Labor 
    • The Major Works: Marx's 'Ethnological Notebooks' and Engels' 'Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State'. 
    • Early Marxist and Socialist Feminism 
    • Theories of Social Reproduction 
    • Race and Social Reproduction 
    • Sexism, Marxism, and The Second Wave 
  • 3. Queer Politics and the Possibilities of a Queer/Trans Marxism 
    • Beyond Idealist Models of Oppression 
    • Ideology and Repetition: Race 
    • Ideology and Repetition: Gender 
    • Why Class is Not a Moral Category 
    • The Rise of Queer Politics in the Mid to Late 20th Century 
    • Marxist Critiques of Queer Theory 
    • Beyond Homonormativity and Homonationalism 
    • The Spinning Compass of American Queer Politics 
    • Towards an Internationalist Queer Marxism
  • Conclusions 
    • Solidarity is not Community 
    • Ten Axioms Towards a Queer Marxist Future

Reviews

‘Like a breath of air from some enlightened future, this book will invigorate and inspire all readers looking for a fresh alternative to the smugly inward theoreticism of so much contemporary feminism and queer theory.’
James Penney, Trent University

‘Asks incisive questions about the relationship between the universal and the particular, between sex and gender, and sameness and difference. Ultimately it is a provocative book: for it provokes both thought and action.’
Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University

'[A] thought provoking and original text.'
Critical Social Policy

‘At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis’ The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.’
Europe Solidare Sans Frontières

Details

Publication Date: 15 January 2016
352 pages

Product ISBNs: Paperback: 9781783602872
Hardback: 9781783602889
eBook ePub: 9781783602902
eBook Kindle: 9781783602919

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