De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War

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Bogdan Popa

De-Centering Queer Theory

Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War

Bogdan Popa

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Manchester University Press
02 January 2024

Film theory & criticism; The Cold War; Social theory

Series: Theory for a Global Age

De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism.

The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory’s vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings.

By: Bogdan Popa
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9781526174659
ISBN 10: 1526174650
Series: Theory for a Global Age
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Acknowledgments PART I: COMMUNIST SEXUALITY IN THE FLOW 1 A materialist conception of queer theory PART II: GENDER AND THE ERASURE OF MARXIST EPISTEMOLOGY 2 Productive bodies in early Soviet Marxism 3 The birth of gender epistemology during the US Cold War 4 Marxism and queer theory at the end of the Cold War PART III: DE-CONTEXTUALIZING MARXISM 5 Abolition 6 Counterfetish 7 The unconscious 8 Trans 9 The future of queer communism Bibliography Index -- .

Bogdan Popa is a Researcher at the Center for Cultural Innovation and Creativity, Transilvania University of Brasov -- .