Shame

A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

Bogdan Popa

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Edinburgh University Press
16 August 2017

Social & political philosophy

Shame has often been considered a threat to democratic politics, and was used to degrade and debase sex radicals and political marginals. But certain forms of shame were also embraced by 19th-century activists in an attempt to reverse entrenched power dynamics.

Bogdan Popa brings together Rancire's techniques of disrupting inequality with a queer curiosity in the performativity of shame to show how 19th-century activists denaturalised conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender. This study fills a glaring absence in political theory by undertaking a genealogy of radical queer interventions that predate the 20th century.

By: Bogdan Popa
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
ISBN: 9781474419826
ISBN 10: 1474419828
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 16 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bogdan Popa is Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College.

Reviews for Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century

Bogdan Popa's exquisite investigation gifts us with a newfound appreciation for the loving, quotidian, and sometimes snarky radicalism of our Victorian forebears. In our shame, shows Popa, we - theorists, feminists, and other weirdos committed to equality and social transformation - are in the queerest of company.--Joseph Fischel, Yale University