Alexander Berkman: Sexual Dissidence in the First Wave Anarchist Movement and its Subsequent Narratives
Authors: Alexander, J.
Pages: 25-44
ISBN: 9780203828441
DOI: 10.4324/9780203828441
Source: Scopus
"Alexander Berkman: sexual dissidence in the first wave anarchist movement and its subsequent narratives"
Authors: Alexander, J.
Editors: Cleminson, R. and Heckert, J.
Pages: 25-44
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London
ISBN: 978-0-415-59989-4
Abstract:This book chapter considers the remembrance and re-inscription of the anarchist activist Alexander Berkman's autobiography "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist"(1912)in contemporary activist and academic spaces. It argues that his discussion of same-sex love in prison (radical for its time)remains mostly obscured because it does not fit into contemporary categories of sexual identity. It advocates for a renewed politics of intimacy in conceptualisations of radical sexuality in a hyper-sexualised world.
Source: Manual
Preferred by: Jenny Alexander