The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism »

Kevin Floyd is associate professor of English at Kent State University.

Theory/Queer Studies

The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together-formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory-and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies.

Introduction: On Capital, Sexuality, and the Situations of Knowledge 1

1 Disciplined Bodies: Lukacs, Foucault, and the Reification of Desire 39

2 Performative Masculinity: Judith Butler and Hemingway's Labor without Capital 79

3 Reification as Liberation: Theory, Practice, and Marcuse 120

4 Closing a Heterosexual Frontier: Midnight Cowboy as National Allegory 154

5 Notes on a Queer Horizon: David Wojnarowicz and the Violence of Neoliberalism 195

Acknowledgments 227

Notes 229

Index 255