Ekers, Michael
Gramsci and the Erotics of Labor
More Notes on "The Sexual Question"
is part of Ekers, Michael, Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics
, Oxford
: Wiley-Blackwell
, 2013
, pp. 217 - 237
This chapter aims to look to Antonio Gramsci's overall style of Marxism for his contribution to debates on queer Marxism and projects aimed at understanding the imbrications of labor and sexuality. Gramsci was one of the first Marxists to historicize and spatialize sexual relations. Yet in light of contemporary queer and feminist political movements and their related literature, Gramsci's work on the subject is clearly wanting in several respects. He is often at odds with himself when discussing sexuality. On the one hand, he makes the pivotal move of bringing a historical and spatial sensibility to questions of sexuality. Simultaneously, he naturalizes hetero sexual monogamy, and holds such relations as essential to the achievement of communist hegemony. Nevertheless, despite Gramsci's conservatism it is possible to find conceptual resources within his writings that are necessary for providing a nuanced understanding of sexuality.
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[author] Ekers, Michael |
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Marxismo
Questione sessuale
Marxism
Sexual Question |
