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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"
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The Politics of Race and Gender
Sexuality is impervious to political analysis so long as it is primarily conceived as a biological phenomenon or an aspect of individual psychology. Once sex is understood in terms of social analysis and historical understanding, a more realistic politics of sex becomes possible. We always have to remember when we're dealing with Marxist and they say real, they mean matter of social formation. There are more fruitful categories of thought than the more traditional ones of sin disease, neurosis pathology, decadence, pollution or the decline in fall of empires.
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