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Cuklanz, Lisa, and Ali Erol. "Queer Theory and Feminist Methods: A Review." Investigaciones Feministas 11, no. 2 (June 14, 2020): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/infe.66476.
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Feminist research methodologies seek to conduct research that aligns with the political and social project of feminism. These research methodologies specifically focus on women's voice, experiences, and contributions, center a feminist perspective and adopt premises and assumptions of a feminist worldview. Some of these premises—raising critical consciousness, encouraging social change, and emphasizing a diversity of human experience related to gender at the intersection of race, sexuality, and other categories of identity—align with the premises and assumptions of queer theory. Since both feminist and queer research methods aim to centralize the experiences of people marginalized under racist, sexist, heterosexist, patriarchal, and imperialist conditions, both methods seek decentralization of and liberation from such experiences in research methodologies. While this paper will briefly discuss these important points of alignment between feminist methods and queer theory, the main purpose will be to distinguish these two broad approaches and to outline what queer theory additionally brings to the table.
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Gedro, Julie, and Robert C. Mizzi. "Feminist Theory and Queer Theory." Advances in Developing Human Resources 16, no. 4 (August 2014): 445–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1523422314543820.
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Harris, Laura Alexandra. "Queer Black Feminism: The Pleasure Principle." Feminist Review 54, no. 1 (November 1996): 3–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1996.31.
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In this critical personal narrative Harris explores some of the gaps between conceptions of feminist thought and feminist practice. Harris focuses on an analysis of race, class, and desire divisions within feminist sexual politics. She suggests a queer black feminist theory and practice that calls into question naturalized identities and communities, and therefore what feminism and feminist practices might entail.
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Wendling, Karen. "A Classification of Feminist Theories." Les ateliers de l'éthique 3, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 8–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1044593ar.
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In this paper I criticize Alison Jaggar’s descriptions of feminist political theories. I propose an alternative classification of feminist theories that I think more accurately reflects the multiplication of feminist theories and philosophies. There are two main categories, “street theory” and academic theories, each with two sub-divisions, political spectrum and “differences” under street theory, and directly and indirectly political analyses under academic theories. My view explains why there are no radical feminists outside of North America and why there are so few socialist feminists inside North America. I argue, controversially, that radical feminism is a radical version of liberalism. I argue that “difference” feminist theories – theory by and about feminists of colour, queer feminists, feminists with disabilities and so on – belong in a separate sub-category of street theory, because they’ve had profound effects on feminist activism not tracked by traditional left-to-right classifications. Finally, I argue that, while academic feminist theories such as feminist existentialism or feminist sociological theory are generally unconnected to movement activism, they provide important feminist insights that may become important to activists later. I conclude by showing the advantages of my classification over Jaggar’s views.
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Downing, Lisa. "Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig and Proto-Queer Theory." Paragraph 41, no. 3 (November 2018): 364–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2018.0277.
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Recent iterations of feminist theory and activism, especially intersectional, ‘third-wave’ feminism, have cast much second-wave feminism as politically unacceptable in failing to centre the experiences of less privileged subjects than the often white, often middle-class names with which the second wave is usually associated. While bearing those critiques in mind, this article argues that some second-wave writers, exemplified by Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig, may still offer valuable feminist perspectives if viewed through the anti-normative lens of queer theory. Queer resists the reification of identity categories. It focuses on resistance to hegemonic norms, rather than on group identity. By viewing Wittig's and Firestone's critique of the institutions of the family, reproduction, maternity, and work as proto-queer — and specifically proto-antisocial queer — it argues for a feminism that refuses to shore up identity, that rejects groupthink, and that articulates meaningfully the crucial place of the individual in the collective project of feminism.
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Williams, Cobretti D. "Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory." Journal of Homosexuality 66, no. 14 (October 11, 2018): 2059–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2018.1517501.
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Rosenberg, Rae. "Feminism is queer: the intimate connection between queer and feminist theory." Gender, Place & Culture 24, no. 9 (June 2017): 1370–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2017.1336298.
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Jackson, Stevi. "Feminist Sociology and Sociological Feminism: Recovering the Social in Feminist Thought." Sociological Research Online 4, no. 3 (September 1999): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.341.
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Whereas others have considered the interrelationship between feminism and sociology in terms of the impact of the former on the latter, this paper focuses on the influence of sociological thought on feminist theory. Sociological perspectives were much in evidence within feminist thought in the 1970s, but the shifting disciplinary hierarchies associated with the ‘cultural turn’ of the 1980s have since undermined sociology's influence within feminism - and especially in feminist theory. One consequence of this, I suggest, has been the erasure of some important sociological insights and perspectives from the map of feminist theory. In particular the origins of social constructionism have been forgotten, along with much that was distinctly social in this approach. In charting the course and assessing the effects of the ‘cultural turn’, I make it clear than not all feminists have followed that route. I argue for the recovery of the social from its eclipsing by the cultural and for the continued importance of a sociologically informed feminism into the 21st century. In making the case for a distinctly sociological approach to central feminist concerns, I will take sexuality as a case study. Here I seek to demonstrate that sociology has more to offer feminism than the cultural focus of queer theory.
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Train, Emma. "A Queer Lesbian Feminist Ecopoetics." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 28, no. 3 (June 1, 2022): 385–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9738498.
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Abstract The author elaborates the intersection of environmental theory and queer theory through a reading of the figure of the lesbian, which scholars, like Robyn Wiegman, Valerie Traub, and Lynne Huffer, have recently used to argue for a more nuanced reconsideration of gender in contemporary queer theory and queer studies. The author argues that the burgeoning field of queer ecopoetics can offer a productive response to recent calls to forge feminism alongside queer theory. The author takes the poet Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) as a case study for a queer, lesbian, feminist ecopoetic praxis. Through a reading of three poems, the author demonstrates that, for Rukeyser, questioning human ontological boundaries is inextricable from her exploration of queer human desire, and especially inextricable from her vision of queer futurity. Furthermore, this essay shows how queer ecopoetics offers a common ground for the beyond-human, kinship-building impulses of environmental thought and for queer theory's congruent impulses of erotic and world-building relationality (as best illustrated in José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia). The author contends that what most cogently binds ecopoetics to queer theory is a deep commitment to anti-anthropogenic ethical praxis, which parallels the ethics described by Lee Edelman as a radical challenge to the social itself.
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Noyé, Sophie. "Materialist and queer feminism in France: Politics of Counter-Hegemony = Féminisme matérialiste et queer en France: Politiques contre-hégémoniques." REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA (RevHisto) 31 (September 23, 2019): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/revhisto.2019.4878.
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Abstract: This article questions the relationship between materialist feminism and queer movement in France. It addresses the pluralization of feminist emancipation in France since the mid-1990s in light of the conflict between materialist and queer feminisms, which started as the queer theory was developed in France in the nineties. The starting point is the hypothesis that the link between these two political theoretic discourses is possible since it actually takes places in the current “queer-feminist” movement’s activist practices. The article argues that this combination is meaningful and deserves to be better theorized because it carries with it a radical message of inclusiveness. The alliance of the two approaches questions the definition of the feminist subject, and especially the formulation of a political unity that is not essentialist. The article analyses the extent to which the counter-hegemonic approach provides with tools to answer this issue.Key words: Materialist feminism, queer movement, feminist subject, Politics of Counter-Hegemony.Résumé: Cet article interroge le rapport entre le féminisme matérialiste et le mouvement queer en France. Il envisage la pluralisation des formes d’émancipation féministe en France depuis le milieu des années 1990 à la lumière de la controverse entre les féminismes matérialiste et queer, qui a comencé quand la théorie queer s’est développée en France dans les années 1990. Mon hypothèse initiale postule que le rapprochement entre ces deux visions théorico-politiques est possible car il se pratique concrètement dans les mouvements queer-féministes actuels. Cet article affirme que cette articulation est pertinente et mérite ainsi d’être théorisée davantage car elle propose une forme d’inclusivité radicale. L’alliance entre ces deux courants questionne en effet la définition du sujet féministe, et, en particulier, une unité politique qui soit non essentialiste. Cet article analyse dans quelle mesure la stratégie contre-hégémonique donne des outils intéressants pour répondre à cet enjeu.Mots-clés: Féminisme matérialiste, mouvement queer, sujet féministe, contre-hégémonie.
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Krane, Vikki. "One Lesbian Feminist Epistemology: Integrating Feminist Standpoint, Queer Theory, and Feminist Cultural Studies." Sport Psychologist 15, no. 4 (December 2001): 401–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.15.4.401.
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This paper describes an epistemology integrating feminist standpoint, queer theory, and feminist cultural studies. Feminist standpoint theory assumes that people develop different perspectives based on their position in society, and women have a distinct standpoint because of the power differential between females and males in our society. Queer theory places sexuality as a central focus, acknowledges the common history of devaluation of non heterosexual individuals, and challenges the current power structure marginalizing nonheterosexuals. Feminist cultural studies examines the role of gender within our cultural interactions and the reproduction of gender inequality in society. I then provide examples illustrating how these perspectives come together and guide my research investigating the experiences of lesbians in sport and women’s bodily experiences.
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Escoto, Jerrica, Rhianna Maras, Damien Sutton, Esther Rothblum, and Adriana Martinez-Noriega. "Feminism is queer: the intimate connection between queer and feminist theory, by Mimi Marinucci." Psychology & Sexuality 5, no. 3 (January 7, 2013): 287–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2012.760173.
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Postic, Jay. "A Review of “Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory”." Journal of Lesbian Studies 15, no. 4 (October 2011): 507–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2011.607413.
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Evans, Elliot. "‘Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (…) simmer within me’: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado." Paragraph 41, no. 3 (November 2018): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2018.0272.
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This article considers the relation between contemporary queer and transgender theory and the ‘second wave’ of feminism. Specifically, it explores the ways in which transgender theorist Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics (2008) calls on feminist theorists, artists and activists of the second wave to explore transgender experience and embodiment, and to rethink gender in light of the new era of biocapitalism Preciado proposes. The article questions the way in which trajectories of feminism are conceived of (most famously through the ‘waves’ metaphor), and finally calls for a ‘scavenger methodology’ as a way to consider the formation of feminist and queer archives.
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Pandey, Renu. "Locating Savitribai Phule’s Feminism in the Trajectory of Global Feminist Thought." Indian Historical Review 46, no. 1 (June 2019): 86–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0376983619856480.
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Initially, the feminist thought was based on Humanist approach, that is, the sameness or essentialist approach of feminism. But recently, gender and feminism have evolved as complicated terms and gender identification as a complicated phenomenon. This is due to the identification of multiple intersectionalities around gender, gender relations and power hierarchies. There are intersections based on age, caste, class, abilities, ethnicity, race, sexuality and other societal divisions. Apart from these societal intersections, intersection can also be sought in the theory of feminism like historical materialist feminisms, postcolonial and anti-racist feminisms, liberal feminism, radical feminisms, sexual difference feminisms, postmodern feminisms, queer feminisms, cyber feminisms, post-human feminisms and most recent choice feminisms and so on. Furthermore, In India, there have been assertions for Dalit/Dalit bahujan/ abrahmini/ Phule-Ambedkarite feminisms. Gender theorists have evolved different approaches to study gender. In addition to the distinction between a biosocial and a strong social constructionist approach, distinctions have been made between essentialist and constructionist approaches. The above theories and approaches present differential understandings of intersections between discourse, embodiment and materiality, and sex and gender. The present article will endeavour to bring out the salient points in the feminist ideology of Savitribai Phule as a crusader for gender justice and will try to locate her feminist ideology in the overall trajectory of global feminist thought. The article suggests that Savitibai’s feminism shows characteristics of all the three waves of feminism.
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Wilcox, Lauren. "Practising gender, queering theory." Review of International Studies 43, no. 5 (June 5, 2017): 789–808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210517000183.
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AbstractThe development of a ‘practice turn’ in International Relations promises to reconstitute IR theory around the study of embodied practices. Despite occasional references to Judith Butler’s work, the contributions of feminist and queer theory are under recognised in existing work. In this piece I note the distinctive approach to gender as a practice represented by Butler and other feminist/queer theorists for its emphasis on intelligibility and failure, particularly the importance on ‘competently’ practising gender in order to established as an intelligible subject. Given the centrality of ‘competency’ in ‘practice turn’ literature, theorising practice from the perspective of ‘gender failures’ sheds light on the embedded exclusions within this literature. To demonstrate the stakes of this critique, I discuss airport security practices, a growing area of interest to IR scholars, in terms of the experiences of trans- and gender non-conforming people. I argue that such practices ultimately complicate success/failure binaries. I conclude by considering the political stakes of practising theory in IR and how competency in theory is similarly marked by the exclusion of feminist/queer work.
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Moi, Toril. "“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (October 2006): 1735–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1735.
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If PMIA invites us to reflect on the state of feminist theory today, it must be because there is a problem. Is feminist theory thought to be in trouble because feminism is languishing? Or because there is a problem with theory? Or—as it seems to me—both? Theory is a word usually used about work done in the poststructuralist tradition. (Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault are “theory” Simone de Beauvoir and Ludwig Wittgenstein are not.) The poststructuralist paradigm is now exhausted. We are living through an era of “crisis,” as Thomas Kuhn would call it, an era in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born (74–75). The fundamental assumptions of feminist theory in its various current guises (queer theory, postcolonial feminist theory, transnational feminist theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, and so on) are still informed by some version of poststructuralism. No wonder, then, that so much feminist work today produces only tediously predictable lines of argument.
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Provitola, Blase A. "TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre?" TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 9, no. 3 (August 1, 2022): 387–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9836050.
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Abstract French lesbian author and theorist Monique Wittig's early contestations of woman as the subject of feminism have played an important role in gender studies in both anglophone and francophone spaces. Since the mid-1990s, French lesbian studies scholars and queer theorists alike have looked to her to anchor their contestations of normative sexuality within a French tradition and counter some of the universalizing aspects of Anglocentric queer theory. As a result, polarizing debates have sprung up over interpretations of Wittigian political lesbianism, typically focusing on divergent readings of her theorization of sex and gender between radical lesbians on the one hand and queer theorists on the other. However, far less attention has been paid to the implications of such debates for transgender studies. Since she has been claimed by trans-exclusionary radical feminists as well as by queer and materialist transfeminists in France, her legacy serves as a rich site through which to understand how the ideological conflicts between those groups relate to feminist history. Taking as a point of departure the appropriation of her name by the anti-trans group Résistance Lesbienne (Lesbian Resistance) that took over the 2021 Paris Pride March, this article fleshes out the implications of her work concerning the place of transgender people, and especially transgender women, in feminist spaces. Ultimately, it is her complexity that makes her a crucial figure for transgender studies insofar as she elucidates French “gender-critical” feminism and its transfeminist critics.
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Showden, C. R. "Theorising maybe: A feminist/queer theory convergence." Feminist Theory 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2012): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700111429898.
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Cox, Lara. "Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway's ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985)." Paragraph 41, no. 3 (November 2018): 317–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2018.0274.
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This article explores the queer qualities of feminist scientist Donna Haraway's ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985). In the first part, the article investigates the similarities between ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ and the ideas circulating in queer theory, including the hybridity of identity, and the disruption of totalizing social categories such as ‘Gay man’ and ‘Woman’. In the second part, it is argued that ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ evinced a decolonial feminist form of queerness. The article references the African-American, Chicana and Asian-American feminist sociology, theory, literature and history that ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ takes up. The article does not wish to position Haraway's white-authored text as an authoritative voice on decolonial feminist queerness, instead arguing for the role of ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ as a bibliographical work that readers may reference in their exploration of decolonial feminist beginnings of queer theory.
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Gonzalez, Marc Tizoc, Saru Matambanadzo, and Sheila I. Vélez Martínez. "Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory: LatCrit Theory, Praxis and Community." Revista Direito e Práxis 12, no. 2 (April 2021): 1316–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2021/59628.
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Abstract LatCrit theory is a relatively recent genre of critical “outsider jurisprudence” – a category of contemporary scholarship including critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, critical race feminism, Asian American legal scholarship and queer theory. This paper overviews LatCrit’s foundational propositions, key contributions, and ongoing efforts to cultivate new generations of ethical advocates who can systemically analyze the sociolegal conditions that engender injustice and intervene strategically to help create enduring sociolegal, and cultural, change. The paper organizes this conversation highlighting Latcrit’s theory, community and praxis.
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Johnson, Merri Lisa. "Bad Romance: A Crip Feminist Critique of Queer Failure." Hypatia 30, no. 1 (2015): 251–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12134.
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This article critiques Jack Halberstam's concept of queer failure through a feminist cripistemological lens. Challenging Halberstam's interpretation of Erika Kohut inThe Piano Teacher(Jelinek 1988) as a symbol of postcolonial angst rather than a figure of psychosocial disability, the article establishes a critical coalition between crip feminist theory and queer‐of‐color theory to promote a materialist politics and literal‐minded reading practice designed to recognize minority subjectivities (both fictional and in “real life”) rather than exploiting them for their metaphorical resonance. In asserting that Erika Kohut is better understood as a woman with borderline personality disorder (BPD), and in proposing borderline personality disorder as a critical optic through which to read bothThe Piano TeacherandThe Queer Art of Failure(Halberstam 2011), the article challenges the usual cultural undermining of epistemic authority that comes with the BPD diagnosis. It asserts instead that BPD might be a location of more, rather than less, critical acumen about the negative affects that accompany queer (and crip) failures, and reflect on what we might call a borderline turn in queer theory. On a broader level, the article joins an emergent conversation in crip theory about the reluctance of queer theory to address disability in meaningful and substantive ways.
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Hagen, Jamie J. "Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory, 2nd ed., by Mimi Marinucci." International Feminist Journal of Politics 19, no. 4 (September 11, 2017): 549–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2017.1361681.
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O’Rourke, Michael. "Quantum Queer: Towards a Non-Standard Queer Theory." Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 10, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2013): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.51151/identities.v10i1-2.287.
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This essay looks at some potentially fruitful lines of correspondence between Laruelle’s non-philosophy and gender, feminist and queer theories. Drawing on the work of leading Laruelle scholars I seek to outline some highly tentative principles for a non-standard queer theory which would help us to think about democracy, the human, performativity, sexual difference and some other crucial questions for current queer theorizing.
Author(s): Michael O’Rourke
Title (English): Quantum Queer: Towards a Non-Standard Queer Theory
Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013)
Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje
Page Range: 123-134
Page Count: 12
Citation (English): Michael O’Rourke, “Quantum Queer: Towards a Non-Standard Queer Theory,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (Summer-Winter 2013): 123-134.
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Gieseking, Jen Jack. "Mapping lesbian and queer lines of desire: Constellations of queer urban space." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 5 (June 2, 2020): 941–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775820926513.
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The path to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) liberation has been narrated through a claim to long-term, propertied territory in the form of urban neighborhoods and bars. However, lesbians and queers fail to retain these spaces over generations, often due to their lesser political and economic power. What then is the lesbian–queer production of urban space in their own words? Drawing on interviews with and archival research about lesbians and queers who lived in New York City from 1983 to 2008, my participants queered the fixed, property-driven neighborhood models of LGBTQ space in producing what I call constellations. Like stars in the sky, contemporary urban lesbians and queers often create and rely on fragmented and fleeting experiences in lesbian–queer places, evoking patterns based on generational, racialized, and classed identities. They are connected by overlapping, embodied paths and stories that bind them over generations and across many identities, like drawing lines between the stars in the sky. This queer feminist contribution to critical urban theory adds to the models of queering and producing urban space–time.
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Glick, Elisa. "Sex Positive: Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Transgression." Feminist Review 64, no. 1 (April 2000): 19–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/014177800338936.
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From the feminist ‘sex wars’ of the 1980s to the queer theory and politics of the 1990s, debates about the politics of sexuality have been at the forefront of contemporary theoretical, social, and political demands. This article seeks to intervene in these debates by challenging the terms through which they have been defined. Investigating the importance of ‘sex positivity’ and transgression as conceptual features of feminist and queer discourses, this essay calls for a new focus on the political and material effects of pro-sexuality.
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Patrinou, Sonia. "Pornohealing: Pornography as a healing process for individuals with a history of sexual violence." Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research 3, Winter (December 1, 2017): 216–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.36583/kohl3210.
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By taking as a starting point “The Clit List,” a pornographic database that includes porn material addressed to individuals who have experienced sexual harassment(s) and/or assault(s), this essay brings forward the following question: can pornography take the form of a healing process for individuals with a history of sexual violence? In order to provide an answer, alternative uses and aspects of pornography will be explored, with a particular focus on queer, feminist, and ethical porn. Following the contemporary history of pornography, I engage with both Queer Theory by discussing queer feminist approaches to porn, but also Affect Theory by sharing queer feminist approaches to trauma and the potential healing that an (erotic) film can induce in the spectator. More than simply seeking for alternative aspects of porn, this essay accounts for the (re)introduction of pornography as a productive media with a sexual healing possibility.
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Young, Tory. "Futures for feminist and queer narratology." Textual Practice 32, no. 6 (July 3, 2018): 913–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2018.1486538.
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Craig, Elaine. "Converging Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Family Feuds and Family Ties." Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 28, no. 1 (February 1, 2010): 209. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v28i1.4495.
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The notion that queer theory and feminism are inevitably in tension with one another has been well developed both by queer and feminist theorists. Queer theorists have critiqued feminist theories for being anti-sex, overly moralistic, essentialist, and statist. Feminist theorists have rejected queer theory as being uncritically pro-sex and dangerously protective of the private sphere. Unfortunately these reductionist accounts of what constitutes a plethora of diverse, eclectic and overlapping theoretical approaches to issues of sex, gender, and sexuality, often fail to account for the circumstances where these methodological approaches converge on legal projects aimed at advancing the complex justice interests of women and sexual minorities. A recent decision from the Ontario Court of Justice addressing a three-parent family law dispute involving gay and lesbian litigants demonstrates why recognition of the convergences between feminist and queer legal theories can advance both queer and feminist justice projects. The objective of this article is to demonstrate, through different and converging interpretations of this case that draw on some of the theoretical insights offered in a new anthology called Feminist and Queer Legal Theory, one rather straight-forward claim. The claim advanced here is that activists, advocates, litigants and judges are all well served by approaching complex legal problems involving sex, sexuality and gender with as many “methods” for pursuing and achieving justice as possible.La notion que la théorie homosexuelle et le féminisme sont inévitablement en conflit l’un avec l’autre a été bien développée à la fois par les théoriciens et théoriciennes homosexuels et féministes. Les théoriciens et théoriciennes homosexuels ont critiqué les théories féministes les qualifiant d’être anti-sexe, trop moralistes, essentialistes et étatistes. Les théoriciens et théoriciennes féministes ont rejeté la théorie homosexuelle la qualifiant d’être pro-sexe sans esprit critique et dangereusement protectrice du domaine privé. Malheureusement, ces descriptions réductionnistes de ce qui constitue une pléthore d’approches théoriques aux questions de sexe, de genre et de sexualité qui sont diverses, éclectiques et qui se chevauchent manquent fréquemment de tenir compte de circonstances où ces approches méthodologiques convergent sur des projets légaux visant à faire avancer les intérêts juridiques complexes des femmes et des minorités sexuelles. Une décision récente de la Cour de justice de l’Ontario portant sur un litige en droit de la famille entre trois parents et impliquant des parties homosexuelles et lesbiennes démontre pourquoi la reconnaissance des convergences entre les théories juridiques féministes et homosexuelles peut faire avancer à la fois les projets légaux homosexuels et féministes. Le but de cet article n’est pas de suggérer qu’une seule «théorie juridique féministe homosexuelle» convergente soit possible, ou même désirable. Plutôt, le but est de démontrer, par le biais d’interprétations différentes et convergentes de ce cas qui s’inspirent de certaines intuitions théoriques présentées dans une nouvelle anthologie intitulée Feminist and Queer Legal Theory, une proposition assez simple. La proposition avancée ici est que les activistes, les avocats, les parties à un litige et les juges sont tous bien servis en abordant des problèmes légaux complexes au sujet de sexe, de sexualité et de genre avec autant de «méthodes» que possible pour considérer la justice dans tous ses détails.
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Healy, Devlin. "Youth Pride, INC: Serving a Visible Community." Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research 1 (November 22, 2012): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.56421/ujslcbr.v1i0.57.
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How do feminism and service learning intersect in a transformative way for both studentand community? The University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Women’s Studies course,Feminist Thought into Action, challenges its students to answer this question through a synthesisof the pedagogical aims of feminism and service learning carried out in a course project. Thesemester-long service project asks students to employ a practical application of their knowledgeof feminist theory through activism and service in the community. More specifically, thestudents in the class are asked to choose an organization and, through observation andinteraction, evaluate its status as feminist over the course of the semester in order to better gaugethe effectiveness of feminist methodologies. I chose to focus my project on Youth Pride, INC, alesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth center in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Österholm, Maria Margareta. "Rainbow coloured dots and rebellious old ladies: The gurlesque in two contemporary Swedish comic books." European Journal of Women's Studies 25, no. 3 (April 10, 2018): 371–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506818768651.
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The term gurlesque refers to an aesthetics that mixes feminism, femininity, the grotesque and the cute. This article explores how contemporary Swedish feminist comic books do gurlesque theory with the aim of contributing to the theoretical conversation about feminine aesthetics and gurlesque. The study focuses on two contemporary Swedish comic books, Jag är din flickvän nu ( I Am Your Girlfriend Now) (2006) by Nina Hemmingsson and Allt kommer bli bra ( Everything Will Be Fine) (2013) by Lisa Ewald. The article views gurlesque as a queer aesthetics, as a form of wilful misinterpretation and taunting of perceptions of femininity. The word gurlesque draws from the word ‘girl’, and questions the connection between girlhood and young age from a queer perspective. Although the gurlesque is rooted in images of girlhood, it has the potential to grasp femininities of all ages.
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Valero Heredia, Ana. "Feminism and Pornography: from mainstream pornography (hetero-patriarchal) to post-porn (non binary)." Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 18 (June 23, 2022): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17561/tahrj.v18.7025.
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Along with prostitution, and more recently surrogate motherhood, pornography has been a contentious issue within the feminist movement ever since the 1970s. Perceived by abolitionists as the prelude to rape, for pro-Sex feminists it represents an ideal vehicle for expressing desire for women and minority sexual identities, and has a considerable transformative capacity. The latter school of thought proposes a paradigm shift and has aligned itself with Queer Theory, which advocates a non-binary approach to sexual identities through Post-porn. This study critically analyses the main arguments put forward by feminism in the field of pornography: women's rights and the principle of no-harm.
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Zelenović, Ana. "Theorizing feminist art in socialist Yugoslavia." Genero, no. 24 (2020): 71–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/genero2024071z.
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Since there were plenty of feminist discourses in Yugoslavia, from "women question" discourse of the Party and the government to academic research of sociologist, philosophers, and anthropologists and later feminist activism, there is a need to rethink the possibilities of theory and history of feminist in socialist context. This research aims at connecting different feminist theories with various artistic practices that might have a feminist character. This paper aims to give the analysis of subjects, forms, and meanings of feminist and queer artworks from 1968 till 1990. Considering feminist and queer theories, social, historical, political, and cultural context of socialist Yugoslavia, the paper offers one possible history of feminist art, maps its ideas and forms, and presents the methodological problems that this kind of attempt carries.
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Vachon, Wolfgang. "QUEERING CHILD AND YOUTH CARE." International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 11, no. 2 (April 6, 2020): 61–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs112202019519.
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Building on queer theory, on formative and current discourses of child and youth care (CYC), and on feminist and other ethics of care theorizing, this paper applies queer analytics to CYC by considering how desire, identity, sexuality, theory, and politics may be taken up within CYC.
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Shulman, Jane, Caroline Marchionni, and Catherine Taylor. "Queering Whole Person Care." International Journal of Whole Person Care 7, no. 1 (January 15, 2020): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/ijwpc.v7i1.233.
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This workshop is the product of a research study exploring the strategies that queer people develop to navigate hegemonic, heteropatriarchal health care systems, and ways that nurse education can incorporate a narrative-based, whole person care approach to understanding and supporting the needs of queer patients. This mixed-methods study included interviews with queer people, nurse educators and practicing nurses; textual analysis of queer health narratives; close reading of queer, feminist and cultural theory; and autoethnography.Some of the questions that we will explore are: How do queers use personal narratives to help navigate health care systems not designed to see/meet their needs? How do queers challenge dominant power structures in medicine? What does whole person care look like in a queer context? What would nurses like to see included in nursing education, and what do queers want health providers to know? What are the key pedagogical challenges in attempting such communication?The stories that queer people carry with them to medical encounters are a rich and underutilized resource for health care providers, and a tool for patients trying to manage serious or chronic illness. We will explore methods for including storytelling in nursing education as well as patient care, and participants will engage in a narrative medicine/autoethnographic exercise.We hope participants will leave our workshop with a better understanding of queer peoples' experiences of health care, and ways that queers and nurses can work together for better health outcomes.
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Koosed, Jennifer L. "Reading the Bible as a Feminist." Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 2, no. 2 (May 4, 2017): 1–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24057657-12340008.
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This work provides a brief introduction to feminist interpretation of scripture. Feminist interpretation is first grounded in feminism as an intellectual and political movement. Next, this introduction briefly recounts the origins of feminist readings of the Bible with attention to both early readings and the beginnings of feminist biblical scholarship in the academy. Feminist biblical scholarship is not a single methodology, but rather an approach that can shape any reading method. As a discipline, it began with literary-critical readings (especially of the Hebrew Bible) but soon also broached questions of women’s history (especially in the New Testament and Christian origins). Since these first forays, feminist interpretation has influenced almost every type of biblical scholarship. The third section of this essay, then, looks at gender archaeology, feminist poststructuralism and postcolonial readings, and newer approaches informed by gender and queer theory. Finally, it ends by examining feminist readings of Eve.
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Branfman, Jonathan. "“Plow Him Like a Queen!”: Jewish Female Masculinity, Queer Glamor, and Racial Commentary in Broad City." Television & New Media 21, no. 8 (June 27, 2019): 842–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476419855688.
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Starring raunchy Jewish women, Comedy Central’s Broad City (2014–2019) invites feminist comedy theory to better address race and ethnicity. Feminist comedy theory has long used Kathleen Rowe’s model of the unruly woman, which neglects racial/ethnic dimensions of unruliness. When discussing Jewish comedian Roseanne Barr, for instance, Rowe does not mention transgressive stereotypes about Jewish femininity like the “beautiful Jewess,” a historical stock figure depicting Jewish women as racially exotic and masculine-yet-seductive. Likewise, studies of the Jewess have not yet integrated Rowe’s lens of unruly womanhood. Broad City highlights these gaps: the series calls its stars “Jewesses,” and tropes of the beautiful Jewess fuel their comedic boundary violations between femininity/masculinity, whiteness/nonwhiteness, and racism/antiracism. By analyzing Broad City, I clarify how racial tropes of unruliness shape plotlines and social critiques in women’s comedy. This article also invites feminist studies more broadly to address Jewishness as a salient form of difference.
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Mayhew, Margaret. "Debates in Transgender, Queer and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites." Australian Feminist Studies 28, no. 77 (September 2013): 325–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2013.827303.
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Mezey, Nancy J. "Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 41, no. 2 (March 2012): 202–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306112438190t.
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Heyes, Cressida J. "Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 4 (June 2003): 1093–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/343132.
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LePhuoc, Paul. "Arguing with the Phallus: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Theory." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 9, no. 2 (August 2004): 254–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100026.
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Sellberg, Karin. "The Philosophy of ‘The Gap’: Feminist Fat and Corporeal (Dis)connection." Somatechnics 4, no. 1 (March 2014): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2014.0114.
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The title of this article is multi-faceted: the ‘gap’ is the name attributed to a hollow space between the thighs that has become an essential part of the contemporary female body beautiful, but my usage also indicates the disparity between different feminist discourses of libratory corporeality and excessive body fat. Considering a somatechnical approach to body fat in terms of Foucauldian dispositifs, it investigates discourses of fat and discussions of anorexia both in the works of feminists who combat the contemporary beauty ideals, such as Naomi Wolf and Susie Orbach, and some Deleuzean and queer feminists, who look to the productive and transgressive potentials of emaciation. In this discussion between academic fat studies, feminist theory and queer theory, one central question emerges: what is it about body fat that makes it such a charged cultural concept? Why is this very essential bodily substance at all considered in terms of desirability? This article argues that the physical qualities of body fat – and the hollows that are formed when it fails to appear – take part in constructing it as concept directly linked to desire. Exploring the dichotomy built between the presence and absence of fat, it explores the philosophical background to this erotic potential.
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Lindén, Claudia. "Ur led är feminismens tid." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 33, no. 3 (June 13, 2022): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v33i3.3439.
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The intention of this article is to follow Elizabeth Grosz’ invitation to explore some of the ways that time constructions and time metaphors attain significance in contemporary feminist theory. Each history includes and produces different temporal structures. How these temporal structures work, the value ascribed to them, and their implications for feminist historiography, is discussed by looking at various examples of writing contemporary feminist history. How is the recent history between the 1970’s and the present of Swedish feminist theory portrayed? Using Claire Hemmings’ historiography of Anglo-American contemporary feminist theory, the article traces similar patterns in the way the development of Swedish feminism is described. The article shows that the common way to write the history of feminist theory in terms of breaks and turning points are deeply problematic. Basically these metaphors rest on a conception of time as serial and hierarchical. That the time is “out of joint” is a prerequisite for feminist work. Feminist theorization must be untimely in Nietzsche’s sense. The later part of the article shows how concepts like untimeliness, anachronism and Derrida’s concept of “hauntology”, along with contemporary queer theoretical research on the literary Gothic, offer alternative constructions of time, which might make it possible to see feminist pioneers, not as specters either to be revenged or silenced, but as ghosts, as un-deads in a positive sense.
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Hamilton, Jennifer Mae. "Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoirs: Rescripting Fears of Death and Dying in the Anthropocene." Body & Society 27, no. 4 (December 2021): 3–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x211056064.
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Re-evaluating dominant cultural narratives around dying and death is central to new critiques of individualism and human exceptionalism. As conceptual tools for theorizing the end of the individual proliferate, the affective dimensions of this project are often overlooked, especially as they pertain to individual subjects. In contrast, a significant number of iconic queer and feminist thinkers have suffered breast cancer and written memoirs representing the subjective experience of confronting mortality. This article identifies the affective orientations towards one’s own mortality as missing from queer and feminist thinking on embodiment in the Anthropocene. As a remedy, the article reads several iconic feminist breast cancer memoirs – Sontag, Lorde, Sedgwick, Jain and Boyer – for their complex representations of affect, in particular fear, in relation to dying and death. Using the affect theory of Silvan Tomkins, this analysis contributes to critiques of cancer culture in medical humanities and of mortality and embodiment in feminist environmental humanities.
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De las Heras Gómez, Roma. "Thinking Relationship Anarchy from a Queer Feminist Approach." Sociological Research Online 24, no. 4 (December 20, 2018): 644–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811965.
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Since the 2000s, general and academic concern in openly non-monogamous styles of relating has increased. In Spain, the rise in the general interest toward non-monogamy, meeting groups, and activism has become apparent during the current decade. One of the practical and theoretical paradigms that has been developed within non-monogamy is relationship anarchy. In this article, I will approach relationship anarchy in three different ways: as a philosophy of love, as a way of structuring affective bonds, and as a political philosophy. I shall then focus on the last one: relationship anarchy as a political philosophy, and what can be gained from thinking relationship anarchy from a queer, feminist perspective. I intend to make a theoretical contribution to the discourse of relationship anarchy as a political philosophy from feminist criticism of monogamy and of the naturalization of love; from the premises of lesbian feminism, compulsory heterosexuality, and the erotic pyramid; and from the concept of amatonormativity and sex-centrism in asexual theory. I shall then consider the usefulness of the relationship anarchy paradigm for radical queer politics in the current Spanish context. Finally, I will raise the concepts of the pyramid of relationships and the continuum (between attractions) system to pose how the different hierarchies that relationship anarchy puts in question are linked: amatonormativity, sex-centrism, and couple privilege.
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Holmes, Morgan. "Re-membering a Queer Body." UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 6 (May 1, 1994): 11–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37695.
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In the spring 1993 issue of The Sciences, Brown University geneticist Anne Fausto-Sterling, citing the work of John Money, indicates that approximately four percent of the population is, to some degree, intersexual: they either possess physical characteristics of both officially recognized sexes or they have chromosomes which indicate a sex which are 'contradicted' by their physical appearance.1 In Toronto, the four percent figure translates into roughly 88,000 people. Yet little has been written about intersexuality, although its concerns often intersect with those of feminist and queer theory. This paper deals with feminist issues in patriarchal medicine and its relation(s) to intersexuality (and intersexuality's inherent ability to challenge arguments for the 'natural' basis of heterosexuality).
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Jaarsma, Ada S. "Rethinking the Secular in Feminist Marriage Debates." Studies in Social Justice 4, no. 1 (March 12, 2010): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v4i1.1008.
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The religious right often aligns its patriarchal opposition to same-sex marriage with the defence of religious freedom. In this article, I identify resources for confronting such prejudicial religiosity by surveying two predominant feminist approaches to same-sex marriage that are often assumed to be at odds: discourse ethics and queer critical theory. This comparative analysis opens to view commitments that may not be fully recognizable from within either feminist framework: commitments to ideals of selfhood, to specific conceptions of justice, and to particular definitions of secularism. I conclude by examining the "postsecular" turn in feminism, suggesting that we can see the same-sex marriage debate not in terms of an impasse between differing feminist approaches, but in terms of shared existential and ethical affinities.
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Lidström Brock, Malin. "Jennifer Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity." European Journal of Life Writing 11 (March 10, 2022): R5—R8. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.11.38362.
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The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a plethora of writers, who have challenged and expanded previous notions of feminist life writing. In Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity, Jennifer Cooke identifies works by thirteen contemporary writers as examples of what she refers to as a new audacity in life writing. Several of these writers are young, early in their careers, and already connected with each other through reviewers or publishers. Defining audacity as a ‘public challenge to conventions, characterized by a disregard for decorum, protocol, or moral restraints,’ Cooke refers to the thirteen writers as feminists, even when they do not directly engage with politics. Unlike their predecessors, she clarifies further, these writers are writing in the wake of queer, gender and trauma theory, and post-structural critiques of binary thinking. They view identity as social constructions manifested both materially and bodily. Through the perspectives that these writers offer on their lives and the experimental form their writing takes, Cooke argues, they are reshaping feminism and its concerns.
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Rudy, Kathy. "Queer theory and feminism." Women's Studies 29, no. 2 (January 2000): 195–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2000.9979308.
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Bargetz, Brigitte. "The Distribution of Emotions: Affective Politics of Emancipation." Hypatia 30, no. 3 (2015): 580–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12159.
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Currently, affect and emotions are a widely discussed political topic. At least since the early 1990s, different disciplines—from the social sciences and humanities to science and technoscience—have increasingly engaged in studying and conceptualizing affect, emotion, feeling, and sensation, evoking yet another turn that is frequently framed as the “affective turn.” Within queer feminist affect theory, two positions have emerged: following Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's well‐known critique, there are either more “paranoid” or more “reparative” approaches toward affect. Whereas the latter emphasize the potentialities of affect, the former argue that one should question the mere idea of affect as liberation and promise. Here, I suggest moving beyond a critique or celebration of affect by embracing the political ambivalence of affect. For this queer feminist theorizing of affective politics, I adapt Jacques Rancière's theory of the political and particularly his understanding of emancipation. Rancière takes emancipation into account without, however, uncritically endorsing or celebrating a politics of liberation. I draw on his famous idea of the “distribution of the sensible” and reframe it as the “distribution of emotions,” by which I develop a multilayered approach toward a nonidentitarian, nondichotomous, and emancipatory queer feminist theory of affective politics.