ISBN:
1000418847
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9781003163923
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1003163920
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9781000418842
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9781000418781
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1000418782
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
DDC:
306.76/60973
Keywords:
Gays Political activity
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History.
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Political culture History.
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Democracy History.
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Social contract History.
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Homosexuels Activité politique
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Histoire.
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Contrat social Histoire.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
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Democracy.
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Gays Political activity.
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Political culture.
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Social contract.
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United States.
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Electronic books.
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History.
Abstract:
Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a desire for social and political order, grounded in the social body's imagined normative shape or morphology. The consistent result, from the concord discourses of the pre-Christian Stoics, all the way through to contemporary nationalism and populism, has been the suppression of any dissent that would unmake the social body's presumed normativity. Miller argues that the conception of embodiment at the heart of the metaphor is a fantasy, and that negative social and political reactions to dissent represent visceral, dysphoric responses to its reshaping of the social body. Heargues thatsocial body's essential queerness, defined by fluidity and lack of a fixed morphology, spawns queer democracy, expressed through ongoing social and political practices that aim to extend liberty and equality to new social domains. Queer Democracy articulates a new departure for the ongoing development of theoretical articulations linking queer and trans theory with political theory. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers engaged in research on political theory, populism, US religion, gender studies, and queer studies.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003163923
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