Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Revisiting 'The Political' in Queer Politics (Queer Interventions)

This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective, whilst also examining the possibilities for political analysis and strategy-building provided by theories of hegemony and heteronormativity. Moreover, in addressing these issues the book strives to rethink the understanding of the term "queer", so as to avoid narrowing queer politics to a critique of normative heterosexuality and the rigid gender binary. By looking at the interplay between hegemony and heteronormativity, this ground-breaking volume presents new possibilities of reconceptualizing 'the political' from a queer perspective. Investigating the effects of queer politics not only on subjectivities and intimate personal relations, but also on institutions, socio-cultural processes and global politics, this book will be of interest to those working in the fields of critical theory, gender and sexuality, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist political theory. Introduction : Hegemony And Heteronormativity / María Do Mar Castro Varela And Nikita Dhawan And Antke Engel -- Revisiting Contingency, Hegemony And Universality / Randi Gressgård -- From The Heterosexual Matrix To A Heteronormative Hegemony : Initiating A Dialogue Between Judith Butler And Antonio Gramsci About Queer Theory And Politics / Gundula Ludwig -- Tender Tensions-antagonistic Struggles-becoming-bird : Queer-political Interventions Into Neoliberal Hegemony / Antke Engel -- Normative Dilemmas And The Hegemony Of Counter-hegemony / María Do Mar Castro Varela/nikita Dhawan -- How Sam Became A Father, Became A Citizen : Scripts Of Neoliberal Inclusion Of Disability / Katerina Kolárová -- Signifying Theory -- Politics/queer / Susanne Lummerding -- The Pleasures Of Compliance : Domination And Compromise Within Bdsm Practice / Volker Woltersdorff. Edited By María Do Mar Castro Varela, Nikita Dhawan [and] Antke Engel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Notes on Contributors 10 Series Editor’s Preface “X” 14 Foreword 26 Introduction Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Revisiting ‘The Political’ in Queer Politics 30 1 Revisiting Contingency, Hegemony and Universality 54 2 From the ‘Heterosexual Matrix’ to a ‘Heteronormative Hegemony’ 72 3 Tender Tensions – Antagonistic Struggles – Becoming-Bird 92 4 Normative Dilemmas and the Hegemony of Counter-Hegemony 120 5 How Sam Became a Father, Became a Citizen: Scripts of Neoliberal Inclusion of Disability 150 6 Signifying Theory_Politics/Queer? 172 7 The Pleasures of Compliance: Domination and Compromise Within BDSM Practice 198 Index 218 Reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. This title explores the insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective.