{"product_id":"christian-maurel-the-screwball-asses-and-other-texts","title":"CHRISTIAN MAUREL \/ The Screwball Asses and Other Texts","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristian Maurel, \u003c\/strong\u003etrans. Noura Wedell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Screwball Asses and Other Texts, \u003c\/em\u003e2025\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 152 pages\u003cbr\u003e12.7×17.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eSemiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA foundational work of queer theory—banned, misattributed, and finally restored to its true author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFirst published anonymously in the notorious \"Three Billion Perverts\" issue of Félix Guattari's journal \u003cem\u003eRecherches\u003c\/em\u003e—banned by French authorities upon its release in 1973—\u003cem\u003eThe Screwball Asses\u003c\/em\u003e was erroneously attributed to Guy Hocquenghem when it was first published in English in 2009. This second edition of that translation, with a new preface by Hocquenghem biographer Antoine Idier that clarifies the different theoretical positions within France's Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionaire, returns the text to its true author: writer, journalist, and activist Christian Maurel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn this dramatic treatise on erotic desire, Maurel takes on the militant delusions and internal contradictions of the gay-liberation movement. He vivisects not only the stifled mores of bourgeois capitalism, but also the phallocratic concessions of so-called homophiles and, ultimately, the very act of speaking desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRejecting any \"pure theory\" of homosexuality that would figure its \"otherness\" as revolutionary, Maurel contends that the ruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process. It is only when nondesire and the desire of desire are enacted simultaneously through speech and body that homosexuality can finally be sublimated under the true act of \"making love.\" There are thousands of sexes on earth, according to Maurel, but only one sexual desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Screwball Asses\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelatory disquisition—a cornerstone text from the radical milieu of post-'68 France that helped establish the foundations of contemporary queer theory alongside the work of Gilles Deleuze, Jean Genet, and Tony Duvert.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHRISTIAN MAUREL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51934797562137,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/5024\/2841\/files\/51lae485LRL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1770333322","url":"https:\/\/landslidebooksandobjects.com\/products\/christian-maurel-the-screwball-asses-and-other-texts","provider":"Landslide","version":"1.0","type":"link"}