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A roundtable discussion of Kathryn Claire Higgins and Sarah Banet-Weiser’s Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kathryn Claire Higgins, Sarah Banet-Weiser
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Troubling transracialism: a transnational perspective Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mansi Hitesh
What kinds of feminist projects are made possible by (dis)analogising race and gender and/or transing them? The article asserts that an arbitrary separation is enacted when the transgender-transracial question is pulled apart such that an examination of the conceptual prefix that connects the two, i.e. trans, is discarded for an examination of the elements that allow for their separation – race and
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‘Holding on’ in a crisis: theorising campus sexual violence activism within precarious labour relations Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Alison Phipps
A ‘rape crisis’ has been identified in universities in the Anglophone North, and responses usually take the form of institutional discipline and governance despite well-established assessments of the failings of both carceral and procedural approaches. In these responses, institutional reputation and risk management overdetermines, elevates and captures particular types of white feminist activism.
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Re-theorising namûs beyond ‘honour’: self-making, feminist agency and global epistemic justice Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Hasret Cetinkaya
Namûs describes a ‘way of life’ integral to Kurdish sociality and to the sense of self for many Kurds who live it in a plurality of ways. Constituting a form of power over the subject which can potentially take the form of domination, namûs is also a social relation of care and power between subjects and is integral to its subject's ethical relationship of self-to-self and processes of self-making
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Disciplining the disobedient Black maternal subject: the assimilatory pedagogies of public suffering and punishment Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Jan Mendes
Drawing feminist analyses of the affective work of shame, compassion and pain into dialogue with Black political theory's critique of the ‘ordinary’ spectacle of Black suffering and death, this article theoretically examines the disciplining of Black maternal subjects who behave badly in Nordic public space. Considering media coverage of two separate instances from 2019 where Black mothers are either
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Re-fashioning feminist subjects: authors’ conversation Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Simidele Dosekun, Samantha Pinto, Srila Roy
In this conversation with Samantha Pinto, Simidele Dosekun and Srila Roy trace the ways that gender and sexuality are both highly local and deeply transnational in the current landscape of neoliber...
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‘In retrospect’: Object Lessons forum Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Kadji Amin, Kinohi Nishikawa, Britt Rusert
Our contribution takes shape as reflections on Object Lessons (Wiegman, 2012) from the perspective of three scholars of race, gender and sexuality who were also graduate students of Robyn Wiegman i...
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De-producing gender: the politics of sex, decertification and the figure of economy Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Davina Cooper
This article explores the contribution that the figure of economy can make to understanding gender in contemporary Britain, focusing on gender as a social quality and legal category that is produce...
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Object lessons and the desire of psychoanalysis Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Julien Fischer
In this article, “Object Lessons and the Desire of Psychoanalysis,” I meditate on the significance of Robyn Wiegman‘s 2012 monograph Object Lessons by examining the psychoanalytic significance of t...
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Object Lessons in a time of tolerable suboptimisation Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 James Bliss
The present contribution reflects on the stakes of Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons (2012) in the wake of a long era of austerity in American higher education. It reflects further on the history of d...
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Identity knowledges remixed: reflections on the itinerary of transgender Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 V. Varun Chaudhry
This article explores the uptake and circulation of ‘transgender’ in academic and philanthropic institutions, as a way of taking seriously Robyn Wiegman’s call for a divergentist approach. In so do...
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Reading Object Lessons in India today Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Mary E. John
This essay situates Object Lessons in the contemporary academic spaces of women’s studies in India. A decade ago, Object Lessons offered an extensive critique of identity knowledges in the US acade...
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Alongside desire: Object Lessons and Working-Class Studies Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Matt Brim
This article reconsiders Robyn Wiegman’s Object Lessons (2012) as a book that helps to discern a necessary relation between Queer Studies and Working-Class Studies, two fields that do not often sha...
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Object Lessons at 10: a conversation Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Robyn Wiegman, Jennifer C. Nash
This conversation returns to Robyn Wiegman's field-defining Object Lessons, reflecting on the book's travels, resonances, and continued importance a decade after its publication.
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Geontopower as a feminist analytic: an interdisciplinary triangulation of women, water and feminist politics in India Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Pamela Carralero
In this article, I theorise the presence of a contemporary Indian and feminist subaltern consciousness that counters infrastructural striations of female subjecthood. Subaltern Studies scholar Part...
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Asking the question of it: trans/gender object lessons Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Marquis Bey
This article queries the very question of and that is ‘gender’, from the vantage of transgender studies. In other words, it moves through Wiegman's question of the desires that propel us and asks w...
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Women's time and the cinema of Marleen Gorris Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Sue Thornham
This article examines the cinema of Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris in the light of Julia Kristeva's concept of ‘Women's Time’ and of more recent attempts to conceptualise a temporality tha...
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Dadkhah mothers of Iran, from Khavaran to Aban: digital dadkhahi and transnational coalitional mothering Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Sama Khosravi Ooryad
This article offers a theoretical account of the figure of the ‘Dadkhah mother’, the ‘justice-seeking mother’, by highlighting her historical, political and feminist significance in contemporary Ir...
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Memory as a wound in words: on trans-generational trauma, ethical memory and artistic speech Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Magda Schmukalla
In this article, I ask how memory of historical trauma, which spreads across generations and which resists the comfort of linear temporality, familiar ritual and narrative, might feel, and what it ...
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Call it misogyny Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Rachel Loewen Walker
Misogyny is a weighty term. Its affective power invokes spectres of rape, sexual assault, hate-fuelled insults and gas-lighting. Its presence in nearly every culture on the planet haunts our pasts ...
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Drafting injustice: overturning Roe v. Wade, spillover effects and reproductive rights in context Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Candace Johnson
We all knew that this was coming. The United States Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade (1973). First, there was the Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) decision that allowed for abortion restrictions, provided that they did not constitute an ‘undue burden’ for the women seeking them. These restrictions include parental notification and consent laws, mandatory ultrasounds, waiting
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Clothes make the man: butch fashion in digital visual cultures Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Naveen Minai
There are few sartorial ensembles as heavily signified as masculine as a suit. This article focuses on the suit within queer fashion digital cultures and spaces to explore how butch of colour digit...
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Fashioning feminism: how Leandra Medine and other Man Repeller authors blog about choice and the gaze Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Michele White
Leandra Medine indicates that she wants the Man Repeller multi-author blog to ‘serve as an open forum for women to draw their own conclusions’ instead of making ‘any sort of feministic statement’. ...
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Fashioning Sufi: body politics of androgynous sacred aesthetics Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Sara Shroff
Revered as the ‘Queen of Qawwali’ and ‘Queen of Sufi music’, sixty-seven-year-old Abida Parveen is a spiritual phenomenon who transcends gender while performing. She is known for her signature fash...
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Monstrous awakenings: Queer Necropolitics in Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee's Death Threat Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa
The study of Queer Necropolitics has established that white futurity regularly relegates trans women of colour to zones of death and sacrifice. What has received less attention, however, is how tra...
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Fantasising gender with the J. Peterman Owner's Manual Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Alec Pollak
This article offers an exposition of the J. Peterman Company's Owner's Manual, a mock-vintage clothing catalogue that promises customers ‘things that make their lives the way they wish they were’. ...
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Thinking with care in human–computer interaction Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Anna Croon
In this article, human–computer interaction (HCI) is explored as a design-oriented practice nurturing the becoming of what is not-yet in future-oriented and speculative manners. Such approaches hav...
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The fetish economy of sex and gender activism: transnational appropriation and allyship Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Saffaa Hassanein, L.L. Wynn
This article examines what happens when local gender rights activism is taken up by international allies and appropriators, using case studies of activism in Saudi Arabia and India. The relationshi...
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A feminist hacklab’s resilience towards anti-democratic forces Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Stefanie Wuschitz
Makerspaces and hacklabs are believed to encourage a positive attitude towards gaining computer skills. Within these communities for peer production, citizens can apply cutting-edge technologies in DIY projects. In recent decades, mushrooming makerspaces and hacklabs were embraced by the tech industry and governments alike. Feminist makerspaces and hacklabs, however, as they are centred around a queer
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Queering genealogies: introduction to the special section Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Elizabeth Reed, Kate O’Riordan
This special section of Feminist Theory explores the theme of ‘Queering Genealogies’. It brings together work which explores intersections of queering, queerness, biotechnology, kinship relations, genealogy and intergenerational relations. It unites two areas of study: queer kinship studies; and queer science studies. The section was edited by Dr Elizabeth Reed and Dr Kate O’Riordan, and our focus
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Russh and the ‘all-Australian’ girl? Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Rosie Findlay
A central preoccupation that constantly arises in Australian culture is the question of who ‘we’ are and where ‘we’ belong. So much is evident in independent women's fashion magazine Russh, the focus of this article, in which pride and uncertainty about Australian identity (and fashionability) are representationally resolved through a sensual, girlish and white fashionable ideal. By closely analysing
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Feminist human–computer interaction: Struggles for past, contemporary and futuristic feminist theories in digital innovation Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Rosanna Bellini, Janis Meissner, Samantha Mitchell Finnigan, Angelika Strohmayer
In this short paper, we introduce our Special Section in Feminist Theory titled 'Feminist human-computer interaction: Struggles for past, contemporary and futuristic feminist theories in digital innovation'. Over the last years, we worked with the authors of the articles presented herein to bring together feminist theories with their practical application in the design, development, use and exploration
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Controlled empowerment of women: intersections of feminism, HCI and political communication in India Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Isha Mangurkar, Nimmi Rangaswamy
Twitter played a dominant role during the 2014 general elections in India, ushering a right-wing party into power. Political leaders employed Twitter to augment their public image and push right-wing campaign agendas to millions of followers. A prominent and strategic use of Twitter was credited to Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, portrayed as a visionary leader supporting economic development
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When sarees speak: Saree pacts and social media narratives Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Arti Sandhu
Through an ethnographic study of online saree pacts and social media groups, this article charts the emergence of digital saree storytelling as women from India and the global South Asian diaspora post stories about their personal and professional lives while also talking about their sarees. The article examines how saree stories are told and consumed in these online spaces, and the role new media
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Transreal tracing: Queer-feminist speculations on disabled technologies Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Katta Spiel
In a world where technologies often serve to amplify the persistent rendering of disability as an undesired deficit, what we need are empowering utopias concerning bodies, disabilities and assistive technologies. Specifically, I use Barad's article ‘Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings’ to illustrate how we might speculate on technologies that understand disabled
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Intersectional elaboration: Using a multiracial feminist co-design technique with Latina teens for emotional health Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Ralph Vacca
Underlying the growing epidemic of mental distress and suicidal ideation amongst certain marginalised groups (e.g. Latina teens) are complex intersections of ecologies and interrelated structures of inequality such as class, culture, race and gender. Through the use of a multiracial feminist framework, the proposed intersectional elaboration technique examines how technology might be designed in ways
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Re-membering: Tracing epistemic implications of feminist and gendered politics under military occupation Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Niharika Pandit
In this article, I trace ‘re-membering’ as a feminist practice in the context of gendered activism under military occupation in Kashmir. Drawing on its anticolonial feminist roots, I conceptualise re-membering as practices that do not simply put together what has been severed or dismembered by coloniality but they also, in doing so, propose different frames of looking. I think through re-membering
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Between familism and neoliberalism: the case of Jewish Israeli grandmothers Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Nitza Berkovitch, Shlomit Manor
In this article, we employ grandmothers’ childcare as a lens to explore the changing relations between familism, individualism and neoliberalism. More generally, we examine the connections between the political economy and the intimate moral economy of childcare work performed by grandmothers. Based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with twenty retired women in Israel, we examine how they negotiate
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Lonely methods and other tough places: recuperating anti-racism from white investments Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Gulzar R. Charania
This article wrestles with how white domination is reproduced in research methods, questions and priorities in the neoliberal university. Reflecting on the stuck and lonely places in my doctoral project, I consider the challenges of doing research on racism in institutions largely hostile to such inquiries. I also trace the pivotal insights that helped me to get unstuck and less lonely. This involved
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Billy-Ray Belcourt's loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Ann Cvetkovich
This article explores loneliness as the affective life of settler colonialism through the work of queer Indigenous (Driftpile Cree) writer Billy-Ray Belcourt's two volumes of poetry This Wound Is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms. In particular, the article focuses on how Belcourt draws on queer affect theory and critical race theory in the work of scholars such as Jose Muñoz, Leo Bersani, Lauren Berlant
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More-than-human kinship against proximal loneliness: practising emergent multispecies care with a dog in a pandemic and beyond Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Maythe Seung-Won Han
Dogs are here to live with, not just to think with. In this autoethnographic essay, I share my experience of loneliness and more-than-human kinship while being in lockdown with my dog, Frank, in our small flat in Edinburgh due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I open with our histories and how we have come to be kin in order to make our positionalities explicit. I then tell three stories that illustrate how
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Feminist Loneliness Studies: an introduction Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Shoshana Magnet, Celeste E. Orr
Writing about loneliness has been a struggle in the midst of the pandemic. Characterized by loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and fear, the COVID-19 pandemic is an exceptionally challenging time. At various points while navigating this loneliness project amid a particularly lonely time, we lamented the seeming futility of it all. A main goal of developing a Feminist Loneliness Studies in this introduction
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Loneliness is a feminist issue Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Eleanor Wilkinson
Loneliness is often described as a deadly epidemic sweeping across the population, a silent killer. Loneliness, we are told, is a social disease that must be cured. But what does it mean to think of loneliness as a feminist issue, and what might a specifically feminist theorisation bring to conceptualisations of loneliness? In this paper, I argue that feminism helps us see that loneliness is not just
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The harms of medicalisation: intersex, loneliness and abandonment Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Charlotte Jones
This article develops loneliness as a political and social justice issue by illustrating the harmful personal and social consequences of the medical jurisdiction over and constitution of variations in sex characteristics. Whilst connections between loneliness, health and illness have been well established, this work customarily identifies the ways illness can lead to, or be caused by, loneliness. Instead
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Ecstatic loneliness: black genders and the politics of affect in Mykki Blanco's ‘Loner’ Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 William H. Mosley, III
The rapper Mykki Blanco is lauded as a trailblazer in the contemporary queer hip hop movement, and it is this reputation that, in part, makes the single of her debut album so curious. The song ‘Loner’ is unequivocally pop and explores health, loneliness, love and sex, echoing Blanco's shifting relationship to gender, genre, sobriety and serostatus. Amidst three key performances of this song, Blanco's
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Emotional Justice as an antidote to loneliness: children's books, listening and connection Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Shoshana Magnet, Catherine-Laura Dunnington
Loneliness is intimately related to the ongoing epidemics of systemic forms of oppression, including white supremacy, capitalism, heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism. The epidemic of loneliness has only intensified and grown during the isolation engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we aim to think about how children's picturebooks wrestle with explaining loneliness and its antidotes
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Queering the kinship story: constructing connection through LGBTQ family narratives Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Eliza Garwood
Recent research into LGBTQ kinship has suggested that reproductive technology might stabilise and/or disrupt dominant ideals about the importance of biogenetic relatedness in family formation. This article examines the way adults raised in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) households are interested in tracing queer family histories, rather than solely their biological relations. Data
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Re-membering Red Riding Hood: situated solidarities between Ireland and Uganda Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Ruth Kelly
Red Riding Hood is a story that has been retold and reimagined more frequently than most. Where the oral tradition often celebrated Red's sexuality and cunning, literary versions transform the tale into one in which a young girl is blamed for her own rape – or, in many feminist versions, where she fights back. Drawing on discussions with writers and feminist activists in Uganda, and on work by Ugandan
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One donor egg and ‘a dollop of love’: ART and de-queering genealogies in Facebook advertising Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Elizabeth Reed, Tanya Kant
We consider what genealogical links, kinship and sociality are promised through the marketing of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Using a mixed method of formal analysis of Facebook's algorithmic architectures and textual analysis of twenty-eight adverts for egg donation drawn from the Facebook Ad Library, we analyse the ways in which the figure of the ‘fertile woman’ is constituted both
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From the families we choose to the families we find online: media technology and queer family making Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Rikke Andreassen
Since the mid-2000s, a number of Western countries have witnessed an increase in the number of children born into ‘alternative’ or ‘queer’ families. Parallel with this queer baby boom, online media technologies have become intertwined with most people’s intimate lives. While these two phenomena have appeared simultaneously, their integration has seldom been explored. In an attempt to fill this gap
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Making feminist sense in the global south: A conversation with Urvashi Butalia Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Urvashi Butalia, Nicky Falkof
‘Urvashi Butalia was interviewed during a visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2019’
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In the wake of the hostile environment: migration, reproduction and the Windrush scandal Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Irene Gedalof
This article examines the place of reproduction in the UK migration policy popularly known as ‘the hostile environment’, introduced in 2012 by the Conservative–Lib Dem Coalition government, and the ‘Windrush scandal’ that followed. In order to think through how the reproductive sphere comes in to play in this policy and its consequences, I draw on theoretical insights from the work of Christina Sharpe
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Theorising human trafficking through slow violence Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Corinne Schwarz
Human trafficking is predominantly framed as a criminal justice issue with sensationalised, highly visible violence. Stereotypical figures of young women in danger, passively poised to be rescued by figures of the state or vigilante justice, animate public discourse and policy. Yet the reality of trafficking is often far more complex than the linear narratives presented in the mainstream. In this article
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They would have transitioned me: third conditional TERF grammar of trans childhood Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Jacob Breslow
Some of the most virulent public trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) discourse in the UK follows the grammatical form of the third conditional: if I had grown up now, I would have been persuaded to transition. This articulation of the hypothetical threat of a transition that did not happen but is imagined, in retrospect, to be not just possible but forcibly enacted plays an important role, both
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Theorising violence in mobility: A case of Nepali women migrant workers Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Barbara Grossman-Thompson
In this article, I examine violence as constitutive of mobility for the feminine diasporic subject through an examination of women migrant workers from Nepal. I frame this project with two distinct theoretical approaches to understanding violence. First, I draw upon Catharine MacKinnon's provocative question ‘Are women human?’ to elucidate points of disjuncture between individual women migrants and
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Understanding ‘fat shaming’ in a neoliberal era: Performativity, healthism and the UK’s ‘obesity epidemic’ Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Tanisha Jemma Rose Spratt
This article explores how ‘fat shaming’ as a practice that encourages open disdain for those living in larger bodies operates as a moralising tool to regulate and manage those who are viewed as ‘bad citizens’. It begins by outlining the problematic use of fat shaming language that is often used as a tool to promote ‘healthy’ lifestyle choices by those who view it as not only an acceptable way of communicating
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Technologies of (in)security: Masculinity and the complexity of neoliberalism Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Steve Garlick
Although there is much feminist work that has examined the intersection of gender and neoliberalism, critical work on men and masculinities remains underdeveloped in this area. This article suggests that complexity theory is a crucial resource for a critical analysis of the ways in which masculinities contribute to the ongoing maintenance of neoliberal socio-economic systems. Critical work on neoliberalism
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Feminist theory and the problem of misogyny Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Samantha Pinson Wrisley
Feminist theory, broadly construed, lacks a comprehensive theory of misogyny. While there has been a great deal of feminist work dedicated to analysing the social, cultural, political, and institutional effects of misogyny, the ancillary theories of misogyny these analyses produce are only ever partial, fragmented, vague or conceptually inconsistent. This article engages and critiques these theories
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Theorising from global south literature for praxis: a transnational approach to chameleon feminism Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Basuli Deb
This article challenges the historical directionality of women’s knowledge and experience from the global north to the global south. It situates Moroccan feminist literature by Leila Abouzeid and Malika Oufkir within a transnational comparative approach to argue that reversing such flows – northward instead of southward – enables defamiliarising feminist theory as we know it to refamiliarise it for
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On the beginning of the world: dominance feminism, afropessimism and the meanings of gender Feminist Theory (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Jennifer C. Nash
Dominance feminism and afropessimist theory, despite their critical appearances three decades apart, are undergirded by similar rhetorical strategies, political commitments and argumentative moves. This is the case even as afropessimism’s citational trajectory rarely invokes dominance feminism, and often positions itself as a critique of feminism’s imagined conception of gender as white, one that is