Table of Contents

Introduction The Politics of Everybody Communitarian Ideals and Culture Wars How is Every Body Sorted? 1. Terms of the Debate Debates in Western Gender Politics What is Capitalism? Philosophy and the Marxian Roots of Queer Political Thought Conclusion to Chapter One 2. Marxism and Gender Don't be vulgar... From the Woman Question to the Gender Question Marxism at the Center and the Periphery Marx on Women Marx on Gender and Labor The Major Works: Marx's 'Ethnological Notebooks' and Engels' 'Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State'. Early Marxist and Socialist Feminism Theories of Social Reproduction Race and Social Reproduction Sexism, Marxism, and The Second Wave 3. Queer Politics and the Possibilities of a Queer/Trans Marxism Beyond Idealist Models of Oppression Ideology and Repetition: Race Ideology and Repetition: Gender Why Class is Not a Moral Category The Rise of Queer Politics in the Mid to Late 20th Century Marxist Critiques of Queer Theory Beyond Homonormativity and Homonationalism The Spinning Compass of American Queer Politics Towards an Internationalist Queer Marxism Conclusions Solidarity is not Community Ten Axioms Towards a Queer Marxist Future

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Constituting a paradigm shift in gender theory, this book argues that only a materialist queer theory wedded to the realities of capitalism is capable of creating a true politics of liberation.

About the Author

Holly Lewis is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, where she teaches continental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy. She holds a PhD from the European Graduate School, as well as a masters from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focused on US and Latin American studies with an emphasis on women and gender.

Reviews

At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis’ The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.
*Europe Solidare Sans Frontières*

[A] thought provoking and original text.
*Critical Social Policy*

Like a breath of air from some enlightened future, this book will invigorate and inspire all readers looking for a fresh alternative to the smugly inward theoreticism of so much contemporary feminism and queer theory, advancing by leaps and bounds a conversation that has struggled to emerge for far too long.
*James Penney, Trent University*

Asks incisive questions about the relationship between the universal and the particular, between sex and gender, and sameness and difference. In so doing she rejects both an economistic reading of macro processes and an individuated reading of relations at the micro level. Ultimately it is a provocative book: for it provokes both thought and action.
*Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University*