Popa, Bogdan.

De-Centering Queer Theory : Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and after the Cold War. - 1st ed. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021. ©2021. - 1 online resource (257 pages) - Theory for a Global Age Series . - Theory for a Global Age Series .

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Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Communist sexuality in the flow -- A materialist conception of queer theory -- Part II: Gender and the erasure of Soviet Marxist epistemology -- Productive bodies in eastern European Marxism -- The birth of gender epistemology during the Cold War -- Marxism and queer theory at the end of the Cold War -- Part III: De-contextualizing Marxism -- Abolition -- Counterfetish -- The unconscious -- Trans -- The future of queer communism -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

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Queer theory. Marxian historiography. Homosexuality-Philosophy.


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