A lear of the Italian gay liberatn movement the 1970s, Mar Mieli bed a radil theoretil perspective wh a urageo (and often provotive)...
Contents:
- MAR MIELI - TOWARDS A GAY COMMUNISM: ELEMENTS OF A HOMOSEXUAL CRIQUE
- HOMOSEXUALY & LIBERATN: ELEMENTS OF A GAY CRIQUE
MAR MIELI - TOWARDS A GAY COMMUNISM: ELEMENTS OF A HOMOSEXUAL CRIQUE
* circle of homosexual culture mario mieli *
A lear of the Italian gay liberatn movement the 1970s, Mar Mieli bed a radil theoretil perspective wh a urageo (and often provotive) public persona. He is bt known for his Marxist acunt of homosexualy and homosexual opprsn, Elementi di cri omossuale (1977), translated to English 1980 as Homosexualy and Liberatn: Elements of a Gay Crique (1980). Mieli's groundbreakg book is an early landmark of revolutnary queer theory – here for the first time a plete and unabridged English Italian gay movement, while certaly sharg much of s history wh that of Bra and elsewhere, has had s own particular experienc and has veloped s own origal and important ias, beg far more fluenced by both Marxism and psychoanalysis than s unterparts English-speakg untri.
This book, published English for the first time, reprents the most prehensive prentatn of the standpot veloped by this radil gay movement, formg an important ntributn to a specifilly gay crique of society.
HOMOSEXUALY & LIBERATN: ELEMENTS OF A GAY CRIQUE
Invtigatg the effects of stutnalised heterosexualy on society as a whole, Mar Mieli shows that the extend far beyond the specific problems of gay people. He argu that the terlockg amework drawn by Marx and Frd, homosexualy stands right the centre, a ccial posn, and that s liberatn is an tegral part of the liberatn of Eros general, volvg the breakdown of the genr system of mascule and feme, and leadg to an unfettered munitn between human begs nvergent wh the goals of a munist society. His argument provis a basis for a genuely radil gay movement, a movement that stggl for gay liberatn as an seperable part of human liberatn as a Mieli shows how gay people like any other opprsed group have their origal and unique mo of stggle and he monstrat this himself his wrg which is specifilly notable for s batn of ser theoretil argument wh a gay sensibily and humour.