Feminism's Queer Temporalities

McBean, Sam

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“…This article is concerned with two functions of the literary utopia, each of which is elaborated further below. First, the literary utopia has the capacity to rethink the temporal concepts of modern society, such as progress and nostalgia, and elaborate more complex, paradoxical understandings of historical movement (Pearson, 1984;McBean, 2016). Second, the utopian form effects reflexivity.…”

Section: The Feminist Literary Utopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Retrotopian feminism: the feminist 1970s, the literary utopia and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army

Davidson

2021

Feminist Theory

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In recent years, there has been increasing discontent with feminism’s understanding of its own history and, more specifically, the place of the feminist 1970s. Feminist scholars – most prominently, Elizabeth Freeman, Victoria Hesford, Kate Eichhorn and Kathi Weeks – have sought to move beyond the feelings of progress and nostalgia that the feminist 1970s often inspires. There is a need to mediate between the urge to leave the past behind and the desire to return to it, with feminists adopting positions that ricochet between progress and nostalgia. In this article, I argue that the feminist literary utopia offers a particularly productive means by which to represent this ambivalent, paradoxical temporal understanding. The classic feminist utopias of the 1970s have become the object of critical contention in more recent speculative texts, which destabilise both progress and nostalgia in their evocation of second-wave separatism. To elaborate this claim, I turn to Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army, which critically assesses the feminist 1970s via an account of a separatist feminist enclave in a near-future Britain. The community of women is a homage to the feminist 1970s, displaying both the potentialities of the movements of this time as well as their sometimes violent limitations. The dreams of the 1970s emerge in the text as an unsettling presence in the world, a force that can neither be left behind nor fully embraced.

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Section: The Feminist Literary Utopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Retrotopian feminism: the feminist 1970s, the literary utopia and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army

Davidson

2021

Feminist Theory

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“…Self-determination has confronted the imagery of normalcy, strategically asserting insurrectional positionings for people's subjectivities and lived vulnerabilities. Following the efforts of political actors, 'crip theory' (McRuer, 2002(McRuer, , 2006) emerged intersectionally, stemming from disability studies and allied with feminist and queer scholarship and activism (Ahmed, 2006;Garland-Thomson, 2002;McBean, 2016). It thus calls for an intersectional identity membership where the 'dysfunctional' becomes a self-reflected form of resistance against normativity (Davis, 1995) and the regulation of bodies and subjectivities.…”

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Trans* Identities and Politics: Repertoires of Action, Political Cleavages, and Emerging Coalitions

Elpes

2020

PaG

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The current political landscape provides collective actors with new strategies to articulate individual interests, hardships, identities, critiques, and solutions, engage with social mobilisation’s conflictual demands, and move towards sustainable practices of collective actions. This article will focus on theoretical challenges surrounding the political action and organization of feminist and trans* identities in order to provide situated knowledge about the dynamics of the transfeminist activism in the Madrilenian geopolitical context. Throughout LGBT*Q+ activists’ integrated forms of doing politics along different axes of oppression (e.g., class, migration, racialisation, disability, ethnicity, gender diversity), new visibility regimes are trying to expand the repertoires of action by nurturing emerging coalitions and agencies among a variety of hybrid political subjects. This article thus argues that trans* politics, through nonbinary activism and a new intersectional feminist praxis, may expand the political subject of feminism and our understanding of identity politics and embodied action.

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“…In an online argument between journalist Susan Faludi (2010) and queer theorist Jack Halberstam (2010), for example, Halberstam criticized Faludi for casting feminist conflict, in Halberstam's words, "in the mother-daughter bond, " arguing that its positioning as "transhistorical, transcultural, universal" ignored "the instability of gender norms, the precarious condition of the family itself" as well as "the many challenges made to generational logics within a recent wave of queer theory on temporality" (Halberstam 2010). Similarly, the insistence on couching all futures in terms of a heteronormative maternal has now been critiqued by a number of feminist and queer theorists (Elisabeth Badinter 2012;Lee Edelman 2004;corinne Maier 2009;Sam McBean 2015;nina Power 2012).…”

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Why “intergenerational feminist media studies”?

Winch

Littler

Keller

2016

Feminist Media Studies

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a a school of art, media and american studies, university of east anglia, norwich, uK; b department of sociology, City university, London, uK ABSTRACT Feminism and generation are live and ideologically freighted issues that are subject to a substantial amount of media engagement. The figure of the millennial and the baby boomer, for example, regularly circulate in mainstream media, often accompanied by hyperbolic and vitriolic discourses and affects of intergenerational feminist conflict. In addition, theories of feminist generation and waves have been and continue to be extensively critiqued within feminist theory. Given the compelling criticisms directed at these categories, we ask: why bother examining and foregrounding issues of generation, intergeneration, and transgeneration in feminist media studies? Whilst remaining sceptical of linearity and familial metaphors and of repeating reductive, heteronormative, and racist versions of feminist movements, we believe that the concept of generation does have critical purchase for feminist media scholars. Indeed, precisely because of the problematic ways that is it used, and the prevalence of it as a volatile, yet only too palpable, organizing category, generation is both in need of continual critical analysis, and is an important tool to be used-with care and nuance-when examining the multiple routes through which power functions in order to marginalize, reward, and oppress. Exploring both diachronic and synchronic understandings of generation, this article emphasizes the use of conjunctural analysis to excavate the specific historical conditions that impact upon and create generation. This special issue of Feminist Media Studies covers a range of media forms-film, games, digital media, television, print media, as well as practices of media production, intervention, and representation. The articles also explore how figures at particular lifestages-particularly the girl and the aging woman-are constructed relationally, and circulate, within media, with particular attention to sexuality. Throughout the issue there is an emphasis on exploring the ways in which the category of generation is mobilized in order to gloss sexism, racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism.

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Feminism's Queer Temporalities

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Retrotopian feminism: the feminist 1970s, the literary utopia and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army

Retrotopian feminism: the feminist 1970s, the literary utopia and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army

Trans* Identities and Politics: Repertoires of Action, Political Cleavages, and Emerging Coalitions

Why “intergenerational feminist media studies”?

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