Taking on the Political
Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century
Taking on the Political
Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century
Bogdan Popa brings together Rancière’s techniques of disrupting inequality with a queer curiosity in the performativity of shame to show how 19th-century activists embraced certain forms of shame to denaturalise conventional beliefs about sexuality and gender.