After Queer Theory

by Penney, James

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Title Statements

Full title :After Queer Theory.

Summary

After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. Through a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism is paradoxically to abandon the exhausted premise of a politicised sexuality. After Queer Theory argues that it is necessary to wrest sexuality from the dead end of identity politics, opening it up to a universal emancipatory struggle beyond the reach of capitalism's powers of commodification.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:20131120.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pluto Press
Language:eng
Publication Date:20131120.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745333793, 0745333796, 9781849649858, 1849649855, 9781849649865, 1849649863
oclc:on1076637661

Subjects

Capitalism Cultural studies Gender studies Gender studies, gender groups Marxism Political science Psychoanalytical Theory Queer theory Sexual Politics Social Theory