Queer Democracy: Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic

by Daniel D. Miller

Book Overview

Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society.

Daniel Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a desire for social and political order, grounded in the social body's imagined normative shape or morphology. The consistent result,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367757702
• ISBN13: 9780367757700
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"