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After Queer Theory
James Penney
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Description for After Queer Theory
Paperback. Makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBA; JMAF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics.
The book makes a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis, via Freud and Lacan, and conducts a critical examination of queer theory's most famous proponents, including Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. In doing so, Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism ... Read more
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics.
The book makes a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis, via Freud and Lacan, and conducts a critical examination of queer theory's most famous proponents, including Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. In doing so, Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745333786
SKU
V9780745333786
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About James Penney
James Penney teaches cultural theory at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of The Structures of Love (SUNY Press, 2012), and The World of Perversion (SUNY Press, 2006) and After Queer Theory (Pluto, 2013).
Reviews for After Queer Theory
'The audacious and sound thesis of Penney's new book - that the political as such is structured by sexuality - reties the knot between Freud and Marx'
Joan Copjec, Brown University 'Whether you're convinced or outraged by After Queer Theory, Penney's impressive research demands that you engage with it in the most serious terms'
Nina Power, University of ... Read more
Joan Copjec, Brown University 'Whether you're convinced or outraged by After Queer Theory, Penney's impressive research demands that you engage with it in the most serious terms'
Nina Power, University of ... Read more