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The work of Michel Foucault is much read, widely cited, and occasionally misunderstood. In response to this state of affairs, this collection aims to clarify, to contextualize, and to contribute to Foucauldian scholarship in a very specific way. Rather than offering either a conceptual introduction to Foucault's work, or a series of interventions aimed specifically at experts, After Foucault explores his critical afterlives, situates his work in current debates, and explains his intellectual legacy. As well as offering up-to-date assessments of Foucault's ongoing use in fields such as literary studies, sexuality studies, and history, chapters explore his relevance for urgent and emerging disciplines and debates, including ecology, animal studies, and the analysis of neoliberalism. Written in an accessible style, by leading experts, After Foucault demonstrates a commitment to taking seriously the work of a key twentieth-century thinker for contemporary academic disciplines, political phenomena, and cultural life

Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François Lacenaire -- The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge -- The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after -- The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer -- "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley -- "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen -- Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos -- Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer -- By way of brief conclusion.

In Baudelaire and Freud (1977), Leo Bersani posits that psychoanalysis offers a way of understanding sexuality as characterized by the mobility of fantasy, rather than by the content of fetishes or sexual identities, and that this mobility offers the "potential for explosive displacements." This short meditation explores how mobility as a concept, understood in Bersani's sense, helps us think beyond some of the paradoxes, redundancies, and aporias in both psy science and queer theoretical models of sexuality. The essay closes by showing how Bersani returned to "mobility" in Homos (1995) and argues that, via this concept, he suggests ways that queer theory itself can avoid becoming a "new normativity."

The post-Brexit, post-Trump climate in the EU has seen a series of challenges from the right wing of politics to the liberal consensus of recent years (e.g. the rise of Gert Wilders in the Netherlands and the increased support for Alternativ für Deutschland in the 2017 German election). This article examines the gendering and embodiment of the new far right in France and the UK. It offers a comparative focus on two recent political challengers from the right who are female: Marine Le Pen (born 1968), the leader of the Front national in France since 2011, and Anne Marie Waters (born 1977), the Islam-critical candidate who was runner-up for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) leadership in the UK in 2017, and who has since started her own political party, For Britain. The article focuses on media coverage of, and self-representation by, these two figures. It argues that the discourse of the 'right' and 'left' wings has, historically, been gendered on the basis of assumptions that women are naturally more inclined towards consensus-building, collectivity and compassion (and therefore left-wing politics), by dint of their biological function as child-bearers and traditional gender role as care-givers. Right-leaning women have been treated as anomalies, by both feminist political analysts and the mainstream media. Feminist concerns over the very existence of right-wing women is suggested by books such as second-wave feminist Andrea Dworkin's Right-Wing Women (1983), the more recent edited collection by Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, also called Right-Wing Women (2013) and, in the French context, Claudie Lesselier and Fiametta Venner's L'Extrême Droite et les femmes (1997). Le Pen and Waters appear as doubly aberrant, doubly exceptional figures – firstly as (far-)right-wing women and secondly as (far-)right-wing female leaders. The article considers the stakes of our categorical understandings of (gendered and political) identity more broadly. Specifically, by introducing the original critical concept of 'identity category violation', it analyses the ways in which the recent trend for identity politics on the left in the West, often under the banner of 'intersectionality', leads to over-simplified understandings of how categories of gendered, sexual, class and race-based identities are assumed to determine political affiliation.

This article proposes and examines a selection of interpretative strategies for viewing the type of sexually explicit art film made by French directors Catherine Breillat, Patrice Chéreau, Gaspar Noé and the team Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, over the past five years. To contextualise the relevant debates, political work on pornography, produced mainly by feminists in the 1970s and 1980s, is placed in dialogue with recent deconstructive gender theory and postmodern philosophy. While this hybridisation of theory problematises what pornography is, my readings of the films demonstrate that the cinematic medium may call into question our habitual ways of seeing sexuality. This is done by means of denaturalisation of the sexual spectacle ( Romance, 1999) or generic collage and the dislocation of ideology from genre ( Baise-moi, 2001; Irréversible2002). I conclude that, rather than being pornographic films, these problematic works constitute specifically cinematic interventions into wider contemporary cultural debates about the status of gender, sexuality and subjecthood at the turn of the twenty-first century.

1. Queer in Belgium : ignorance, goodwill, compromise / Bart Eeckhout -- 2. Queer in Cyprus : national identity and the construction of gender and sexuality / Nayia Kamenou -- 3. Queer in England : the comfort of queer? kittens, Teletubbies and Eurovision / David Nixon and Nick Givens -- 4. Queer in France : AIDS dissidentification in France / James Agar -- 5. Queer in Germany : materialist concerns in theory and activism / Ute Kalender -- 6. Queer in Hungary : hate speech regulation and the queering of the conduct/speech binary / Erzsebet Barat -- 7. Queer in Ireland : 'deviant' filiation and the (un)holy family / Anne Mulhall -- 8. Queer in Italy : Italian televisibility and the 'queerable' audience / Luca Malici -- 9. Queer in the Netherlands : pro-gay and anti-sex, sexual politics at a turning point / Gert Hekma -- 10. Queer in the Nordic region : telling queer (feminist) stories / Ulrika Dahl -- 11. Queer in Poland : under construction / Lukasz Szulc -- 12. Queer in Russia : othering the other of the West / Brian James Baer -- 13. Queer in Spain : identity without limits / Santiago Fouz-Hernandez.

Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is adapted in different national contexts. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen relevant experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European countries. The first volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in contemporary queer studies.