By Assistant Professor Holly Lewis
The Politics of Everybody examines the construction and upkeep of the phrases 'man', 'woman', and 'other' in the present political second; the contradictions of those different types and the clients of a Marxist method of praxis for queer our bodies. Few thinkers have tried to reconcile queer and Marxist research. those that have suggest the major contested website to be that of desire/sexual expression. This emphasis on hope, Lewis argues, is symptomatic of the neoliberal venture and has ended in a persevered fascination with the politics of identification. via arguing that Marxist research is actually most useful to gender politics in the enviornment of physique construction, categorization and exclusion Lewis develops a idea of gender and the sexed physique that's wedded to the realities of a capitalist political economy.
Boldly calling for a brand new, materialist queer conception, Lewis defines a politics of liberation that's either intersectional, transnational, and down to earth in lived experience.
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