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Book SynopsisExamines contemporary categories of difference - sexuality, race, gender, class, and nationality - and how they operate within the politics of domination. Drawing on the work of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and others, the author engages feminist theory, race theory, and queer theory.
Trade ReviewIn all, Winnubst's text is interesting, powerful, and jogs the reader along at a brisk pace. No. 11, February 2011
* Foucault Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Seduction of Freedom
Part One. Demarcating the Space of Domination: The Politics of Freedom
1. Liberalism's Neutral Individual: Delimiting Racial and Sexual Difference
2. Is the Mirror Racist? Interrogating the Space of Whiteness
3. The Place of Sexual Difference: Idealizing Heterosexual Desire
Part Two. Moving toward Resistance: A Politics without a Future
4. Free to Be Queer: Queer to Be Free
5. The Temporality of Whiteness: Anticipating Pleasure (And Feeling Nothin' But Guilty)
6. The Freedom of Sovereignty: Remembering Lost Pasts
Epilogue: A Political Note against Same-Sex Marriage
Notes
References
Index
