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One-Dimensional Queer (Paperback)
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One-Dimensional Queer (Paperback)
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Loot Price R473
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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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