Examines contemporary categories of difference - sexuality, race, gender, class, and nationality - and how they operate within the politics of domination. Drawing on the work of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and others, the author engages feminist theory, race theory, and queer theory.

In "Queering Freedom", Shannon Winnubst examines contemporary categories of difference - sexuality, race, gender, class, and nationality - and how they operate within the politics of domination. Drawing on the work of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and others, Winnubst engages feminist theory, race theory, and queer theory as she sheds light on blind spots that have characterized thinking about freedom. Winnubst turns away from the language of rights, identity politics, and liberation toward bodies and experiences to calibrate normative ideas of time and space. Her views operate at the very limits of freedom, which contain individuals within strict boundaries that they are forbidden to cross. Winnubst develops strategies of "queering freedom" to undo the more subtle spatial and temporal norms and shatter structures of domination. This thoughtful and provocative work challenges the cornerstones of contemporary philosophies about the body and its politics.

Introduction. The Seduction of Freedom
Part One: Demarcating the Space of Domination: The Politics of Freedom
Ch. 1. Delimiting Difference: The Emergence of Liberalism's Neutral Individual
Ch. 2. Is the Mirror Racist?
Interrogating the Space of Whiteness
Ch. 3. Irigaray and 'Place': The Limits of Desiring a Woman's Touch
Part Two: Moving Towards Resistance: A Politics without a Future
Ch. 4. Free to be Queer: Queer to be Free
Ch. 5. The Temporality of Whiteness: Anticipating Pleasure (and feeling nothin' but guilty)
Ch. 6. The Freedom of Sovereignty