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About The Politics Of Everybody: Feminism, Queer
About the Author Holly Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University where she teaches continental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. from the European Graduate School, as well as a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania where her research focused on US and Latin American Studies with an emphasis on Women and Gender. Product Description The Politics of Everybody examines the production and maintenance of the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'other' within the current political moment; the contradictions of these categories and the prospects of a Marxist approach to praxis for queer bodies. Few thinkers have attempted to reconcile queer and Marxist analysis. Those who have propose the key contested site to be that of desire/sexual expression. This emphasis on desire, Lewis argues, is symptomatic of the neoliberal project and has led to a continued fascination with the politics of identity. By arguing that Marxist analysis is in fact most beneficial to gender politics within the arena of body production, categorization and exclusion Lewis develops a theory of gender and the sexed body that is wedded to the realities of a capitalist political economy.Boldly calling for a new, materialist queer theory, Lewis defines a politics of liberation that is both intersectional, transnational, and grounded in lived experience.Test Review “At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.” ―Europe Solidare Sans Frontières“[A] thought provoking and original text.” ―Critical Social Policy“Like a breath of air from some enlightened future, this book will invigorate and inspire all readers looking for a fresh alternative to the smugly inward theoreticism of so much contemporary feminism and queer theory, advancing by leaps and bounds a conversation that has struggled to emerge for far too long.” ―James Penney, Trent University“Asks incisive questions about the relationship between the universal and the particular, between sex and gender, and sameness and difference. In so doing she rejects both an economistic reading of macro processes and an individuated reading of relations at the micro level. Ultimately it is a provocative book: for it provokes both thought and action.” ―Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Politics of EverybodyFeminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the IntersectionBy Holly LewisZed Books LtdCopyright © 2016 Holly LewisAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-78360-287-2ContentsAcknowledgements, Introduction, I. The politics of everybody, II. Communitarian ideals and culture wars, III. How is every body sorted?, 1. Terms of the debate, I. Debates in Western gender politics, II. What is capitalism?, III. Philosophy and the Marxian roots of queer political thought, IV. Conclusion, 2. Marxism and gender, I. Don't be vulgar ..., II. From the woman question to the gender question, III. Marxism at the center and the periphery, IV. Marx on women, V. Marx on gender and labor, VI. The major works: Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, VII. Early Marxist and socialist feminism, VIII. Theories of social reproduction, IX. Race and social reproduction, X. Marxism and the second wave, 3. From queer nationalism to queer Marxism, I. The vector model of oppression, II. Racecraft and ideological repetition, III. Sexcraft and ideological repetition, IV. Class is not a moral category, V. The rise of queer politics, VI. Marxist critiques of queer theory, VII. Beyond homonormativity and homonationalism, VIII. The spinning compass of American queer politics, IX. The world is a very queer place, X. The queer Marxist critique of postcolonialism, 4. Conclusion
