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Warped

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With same-sex marriage now a national right, this timely volume insists on the continuation of the struggle for LGBT rights.
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Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been disconcerting for activists with radical sympathies. This book shows how the successive 'same-sex formations' of the past century and a half have led both to the emergence of today's 'homonormativity' and 'homonationalism' and to ongoing queer resistance.
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Pages: 446
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date: 22 December 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608466368
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, HISTORY / Modern / General, Political ideologies and movements, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships, General and world history

“Warped makes a very significant contribution to the discussion. It covers the period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and addresses issues in non-European cultures as well as Europe and North America. It reflects an enormous breadth of reading, and anyone interested in leftist writing on LGBT history can learn a great deal from it. It also brings to bear some important new theoretical insights, from a Marxist perspective, into the history of sexuality.” –Colin Wilson, rs21

Peter Drucker, Ph.D. (1994) in political science, Columbia University, is a Fellow of the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam. A queer and anti-war activist, he has published extensively on socialist theory and history and LGBT studies.

Preface
Introduction: What’s at Stake?
Understanding Same-Sex Histories

PART I: ORIGINS OF GAY NORMALITY
Prologue: Before Homosexuality
Chapter 1. Imperialism and Inversion
Chapter 2. Fordism and Gay Identity

PART II: GAY NORMALITY UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
Chapter 3. Homonormativity and Queer
Chapter 4. The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism

PART III: CHALLENGES FOR A QUEER ANTI-CAPITALISM
Chapter 5. Towards a Queer Sexual Politics
Chapter 6. Queering Broader Movements

Conclusion: The Principle of Hope

References
Index