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- Transgender: Latin American, South(east) Asian and African-derived forms | |||
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- The specificity of 'lesbian/gay': identity, community, and ghetto | |||
Latest revision as of 18:54, 7 April 2008
6 June 2005 Global Justice School
Globalization and social recomposition, V:
LGBT communities and struggles in the dependent world
Peter Drucker
Introduction
Place of report in session: gender and 'identity politics'
Sexual politics: the Marxist tradition
Bolshevism, Stalinism, Maoism, the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions
In the FI: Europe, Mexico, the world
Goals of report
Limits of report
I. The diversity of same-sex sexualities
Discussing sexuality as Marxists and feminists
Essentialism and (combined and uneven) social construction
Desire, behaviour and identity
Different social constructions of same-sex sexuality
- Transgender: Latin American, South(east) Asian and African-derived forms
- Transgenerational: the Islamic world
- Lesbianism, possible and invisible
- The specificity of 'lesbian/gay': identity, community, and ghetto
II. Capitalist development, globalization and same-sex sexualities
Capitalist reproduction, gender roles and the heterosexual norm
Colonialism and the heterosexual norm
Industrial capitalism and transgender in Europe and Latin America
The expansive long wave of 1945-73, Fordism, the welfare state and the rise of lesbian/gay
communities
The neoliberal model: social and sexual polarization
Neocolonial 'authenticity' and cultural globalization
The impact of economic crises (1982, 1997)
Transgender and gay in the dependent world: class, autonomy and alliances
'Queer' politics and 'queer theory': beyond identity?
III. LGBT organizing / anti-capitalist organizing
Between sexual 'free market' and reaction
The fight for democracy and equality, legal and real: the South African example
Sex trade and sex tourism: repression or self-organization?
LGBT migrants: globalizing resistance
The AIDS crisis, homosexual and heterosexual: multinationals and governments
Against neoliberalism: beginnings in Porto Alegre, Florence, Mumbai…
Our (potential) lesbian/gay comrades