Queering Freedom [Paperback]

Radically reorienting, challenging, provocative, this book moves progressive philosophy, feminist and queer theory, critical discussions of race and racism forward. Prophetically, it calls for an interrogation of all our oppositional theory and politics, offering new and alternative visions. bell hooks

In Queering Freedom, Shannon Winnubst examines contemporary categories of differencesexuality, race, gender, class, and nationalityand how they operate within the politics of domination. Drawing on the work of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and others, Winnubst engages feminist theory, race theory, and queer theory as she sheds light on blind spots that have characterized thinking about freedom. Winnubst turns away from the language of rights, identity politics, and liberation toward bodies and experiences to calibrate normative ideas of time and space. Her views operate at the very limits of freedom, which contain individuals within strict boundaries that they are forbidden to cross. Winnubst develops strategies of queering freedom to undo the more subtle spatial and temporal norms and shatter structures of domination. This thoughtful and provocative work challenges the cornerstones of contemporary philosophies about the body and its politics.

Seeks individual freedom beyond rigid categories of race, gender, class, or sexual preference

Shannon Winnubst is Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern University.

In all, Winnubst's text is interesting, powerful, and jogs the reader along at a brisk pace. No. 11, February 2011

Radically reorienting, challenging, provocative, this book moves progressive philosophy, feminist and queer theory, critical discussions of race and racism forward. Prophetically, it calls for an interrogation of all our oppositional theory and politics, offering new and alternative visions.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Seduction of Freedom
Part One. Demarcating the Space of Domination: Tl³-