Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. The appropriation of poststructuralist theory, such as applying the Foucanidian notion of 'transgression' to describe dress and the performance of gender as 'revolutionary,' (p. Unpacking Queer Politics Quotes Showing 1-8 of 8 Masculinity cannot exist without femininity.
Jeffreys, then, identifies the emergence of queer politics as a critical moment in which the political priorities of gay men and lesbians became profoundly conservative. The book postulates that despite the alliances formed between gay men and lesbians during gay liberation, a period that the author argues gay men understood women's liberation from gender roles as fundamental to their vision of gay liberation, the backlash against feminism during the late eighties was reflected by developments in the gay community.
Unpacking Queer Politics is not only a critical and deftly persuasive response to the bourgeoning queer politics of the contemporary era but a study of lesbian and gay politics since the 1970s.
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For Jeffreys, formerly trained as an historian, and author of a series of intrepid critiques of contemporary constructions of sexuality, her fifth book is an anticipated successor to her radical feminist philosophy that proposes that sexuality, as a social construct, is not liberating in its own right but a political institution that is founded on women's oppression. Chapter 2: Queer theory and Politics and the Lesbian Feminist Critique. Socialist feminisms analysis of transgender oppression In contrast to radical feminists, socialist feminists view the private property system as the historical and. Sheila Jeffreys' latest work, Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective, is aimed at, and for the most part succeeds in, challenging what the author argues is the dominance of queer theory in sexual politics today. Auflage Dezember 2002 184 Seiten, Softcover Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chapter 1: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism. In Unpacking Queer Politics, Jeffreys asserts that all feminists should be lesbians or should adopt 'political lesbianism' because women shouldnt sleep with their oppressors. 162 ISBN: 07456 28389įor some time, feminists in the disciplines of political science, history and cultural studies have been grappling with the challenges posed by the emergence of queer theory over the previous decade. In this way lesbians should be seen as the vanguard of social change.UNPACKING QUEER POLITICS: A LESBIAN FEMINIST PERSPECTIVEĪUD $49.95 (PPB), PP. Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective. The book concludes by arguing that precisely the commitment to equality in relationships and sex that has been so important to lesbian feminists, and so excoriated in much of queer theory, should form the basis of a social transformation. The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade. The political agenda of queer politics is damaging to the interests of lesbians, women in general, and to marginalized and vulnerable constituencies of gay men. Practices which construct this ‘manhood’, such as sadomasochism, cutting and piercing, female-to-male transsexual surgery, and which are promoted in queer politics, need to be understood as forms of self-harm which result from the oppression of lesbians and gay men. The new politics repudiated lesbian feminist ideas and celebrated ‘manhood’ as a goal for gay men. The new politics repudiated lesbian feminist ideas and celebrated ‘manhood’ as a goal for gay men. Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics. The new politics repudiated lesbian feminist ideas and celebrated. Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics. Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics.
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