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

By Bogdan Popa

Book Overview

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 Ranci re'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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474441394
• ISBN13: 9781474441391
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"