One-Dimensional Queer

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By Roderick A. Ferguson

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One-Dimensional Queer reveals the complex, intersectional origins of gay liberation, demonstrating how its history entwines with race, gender, class, colonisation, incarceration, and capitalism. Roderick A. Ferguson argues that mainstream narratives have reduced queer politics to a single-issue focus on sexual freedom, obscuring its broader radical potential and marginalising queers of colour, the poor, and transgender people. This book calls for a reimagining of social justice activism that reconnects these diverse struggles.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in queer studies, intersectionality, social justice, and critical race theory, particularly those seeking to understand the multifaceted history of queer liberation and its ongoing political challenges.

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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 colonisation, 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 marginalise queers of colour, 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.

One-Dimensional Queer invites us to reconsider the complexities and potential of queer liberation movements beyond their conventional narratives.

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Jack Halberstam, Columbia University praises it as a clear and crucial account of how race and sexuality became separated in US history, highlighting the disastrous effects of mainstreaming LGBT cultures and offering important critique and solutions. Steven W. Thrasher, The Guardian and Northwestern University, commends Ferguson’s searing critique of pink capitalism and state violence, and his nuanced contextualisation of the Stonewall Riots within broader anti-racist and anti-imperialist histories.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509523566

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 119.0mm

Height: 185.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 200

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Education & Reference LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Roderick A. Ferguson

About the Author

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