Towards a Gay Communism
Title | Towards a Gay Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Mieli |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Gay liberation movement |
ISBN | 9780745399522 |
First publication in English of a groundbreaking book of revolutionary queer theory.
Towards a Gay Communism
Title | Towards a Gay Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Mieli |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780745399515 |
Among the most important books ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia, and capitalism, Towards a Gay Communism is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory. Decades later, Mario Mieli's work continues to pose a radical challenge to today's mainstream queer theory and politics. First published in English in 1980, this groundbreaking book is now available in an updated and unabridged English translation, with a new introduction by Massimo Prearo and a foreword by Tim Dean. With extraordinary prescience, Mieli exposes how capitalism co-opts and markets "perversions." In his view, the liberation of homosexual desire requires the emancipation of sexuality from both patriarchal sex roles and capital. Drawing heavily upon Marx and psychoanalysis to arrive at his highly original vision, Towards a Gay Communism continues to be essential reading for all who seek to understand the true meaning of sexual liberation under capitalism today.
Towards a Gay Communism
Title | Towards a Gay Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Mieli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Gay liberation movement |
ISBN | 9781786800534 |
First publication in English of a groundbreaking book of revolutionary queer theory.
Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland
Title | Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland PDF eBook |
Author | Lukasz Szulc |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2017-07-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319589016 |
This book traces the fascinating history of the first Polish gay and lesbian magazines to explore the globalization of LGBT identities and politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the twilight years of the Cold War. It details the emergence of homosexual movement and charts cross-border flows of cultural products, identity paradigms and activism models in communist Poland. The work demonstrates that Polish homosexual activists were not locked behind the Iron Curtain, but actively participated in the transnational construction of homosexuality. Their magazines were largely influenced by Western magazines: used similar words, discussed similar topics or simply translated Western texts and reproduced Western images. However, the imported ideas were not just copied but selectively adopted as well as strategically and creatively adapted in the Polish magazines so their authors could construct their own unique identities and build their own original politics.
Homosexual Desire
Title | Homosexual Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Hocquenghem |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780822313847 |
This essay focuses on the possibility of social and personal transformation which was opened up by the gay liberation movement in France, which the author terms a "revolution of desire."
Queer Encounters with Communist Power
Title | Queer Encounters with Communist Power PDF eBook |
Author | Věra Sokolová |
Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2021-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8024642662 |
How did the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia approach non-heterosexuality? How did young girls and boys come to realize their queer desires and identities within a state known for repressing individuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their everyday dealings with a state that defined homosexuality as a medical diagnosis? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves groundbreaking queer oral history with meticulous archival research into the discourses on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989.
Homosexuality and Liberation
Title | Homosexuality and Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Mieli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | History |
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