De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War - Paperbackby Bogdan Popa (Author) De centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and