The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection

Critiques queer and feminist theory from a theoretical and global political/activist position - the author has been involved in queer and trans activist projects in Washington for many years

Preface to the New EditionIntroduction 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

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 Everybodyis a major contribution to the trend.
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.
[A] thought provoking and original text.