Roderick A. Ferguson

One-Dimensional Queer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509523597
• Artikelnr.: 56982278

Autorenporträt

Roderick Ferguson is Professor of African American and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 The Multidimensional Beginnings of Gay Liberation 18
2 Gay Emancipation Goes to Market 46
3 Queerness and the One-Dimensional City 81
4 The Multidimensional Character of Violence 114
Conclusion: The Historical Assumptions of Multidimensional Queer Politics
143
Notes 152
Bibliography 153
Index 161

Rezensionen

"One-Dimensional Queer is as clear an account as you could hope to encounter of how race and sexuality came to be understood as separate formations in US history. The resultant mainstreaming of LGBT cultures has been disastrous in terms of seeing our way out of the current crisis we inhabit. Offering solutions as well as critique, Ferguson's book is destined to be a crucial part of any library of liberation."
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University

"In this searing critique of pink capitalism and rainbow-approved state violence, Ferguson slays the flat misnomer that the 1969 Stonewall Riots were only about gay sex. Instead, he brilliantly contextualizes Stonewall multi-dimensionally in histories of anti-racist and anti-imperialist rebellion."
Steven W. Thrasher, The Guardian and Northwestern University