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Book

Queering anarchism : addressing and undressing power and desire

Call Number

  • 306.76 Q382 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Oakland, CA : AK Press, [2012]

Physical Description

[6], 255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"What does it mean to 'queer' the world? Queering Anarchism suggests that 'queerness' is more than a new gender norm--instead offering a new personal politics that refuses to acquiesce to the mainstream codification of LGBT identity. Using revolutionary anarchism's long tradition of social, political, and economic theory as a foil, these engaging essays bring together a diverse set of ideas ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal, and explore the myriad possibilities that the concept of 'queering' presents"--

Contents

  • Introduction: Queer meet anarchism, anarchism meet queer / Gay marriage and queer love / De-essentializing anarchist feminism : lessons from the transfeminist movement / Police at the borders / Gender sabotage / Anarchy without opposition / Lessons from queertopia / Tyranny of the state and trans liberation / Harm reduction as pleasure activism / Radical queers and class struggle : a match to be made / A diversity of sex tactics part 1 / Queering the economy / Queering heterosexuality / Polyamory and queer anarchism : infinite possibilities for resistance / Sex and the city : beyond liberal politics and toward holistic revolutionary practice / Queering our analysis of sex work : laying capitalism bare / Tearing down the walls : queerness, anarchism and the prison industrial complex / Queer-cripping anarchism : intersections and reflections on anarchism, queerness, and dis-ability / Straightness must be destroyed / Anarchy, BDSM, and consent-based culture

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