Intimate Justice

Threadcraft, Shatema

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“…the free and equal use of the powers and capacities of the black female body'. 12 In this paper, I follow Threadcraft's invitation as 'any system that allowed the longstanding exclusion of a specific group of women from state protection for women's bodily integrity and bodily health, for example, would merit intimate justice', 13 and examine the resistance to the control of the female body through the myth of virginity in Kyrgyzstan.…”

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“…First, I analyze different ways in which virginal blood is appropriated to transform public intimate spaces of the body and the family. Second, I turn to digital spaces of sexuality knowledge on Instagram to show 'intimate-sphere resistance efforts' 27 in the digital public. I conclude with a discussion on ways toward intimate justice in Kyrgyzstan.…”

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“…In fact, 'the sexist social contexts in which women act are also racialized spaces'. 46 For example, racialized women, especially Muslim women or the 'sexual subaltern', 47 are considered victims of virginity myths and the associated assumption of the need for virginal blood. 48 Yet, Islam, like other religions, is embodied in multiple ways and women are (not) affected by the need to produce virginal blood for a variety of reasons.…”

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“…48 Yet, Islam, like other religions, is embodied in multiple ways and women are (not) affected by the need to produce virginal blood for a variety of reasons. But, because sexist social contexts differ, 49 racialized women are often provided with fewer resources to 'exercise their intimate capacities'. 50 This 'intimate racial injustice' 51 is also evident in the intertwining of virginal blood with imperialist practices.…”

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Intimate geographies of virginal blood

Militz

2022

cultural geographies

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Feminist scholars, activists, and artists have long addressed the topic of virginity and have dismantled it as a powerful, globally circulating, and gendered myth. It affects how many woman-identifying people experience how their bodies become (a)sexual. Centrally, the myth of virginity has been shown to be mobilized in support of colonial, ethnonationalist identity projects. In Kyrgyzstan, disciplining women through policing their sexual behavior co-constituted nation-building projects after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on data collected since 2017 (qualitative interviews in Bishkek and Osh and qualitative research on Instagram), I examine intimate geographies of the virginity myth in Kyrgyzstan. Building on geographic scholarship on intimacy and body parts, I discuss the ways in which virginal blood works both to submit to and to reclaim one’s intimate body spaces and sexual practices. I argue that people affected by the virginity myth create the foundations for intimate justice in Kyrgyzstan. On the one hand, people are reclaiming authority over their intimate bodies through subverting sexist systems of sexual control and through expanding discursive horizons of virginity performances. On the other hand, activists on Instagram are supporting digital public spaces that allow to author virginal blood narratives and provide resources on intimate body knowledge. Analyzing the scalar doings of virginal blood, the paper contributes a case study on intimate justice and the geographies of the body in Kyrgyzstan. My analysis encourages further examination of the capacities of the body to better understand how certain body parts turn into key sites of (geo)political struggles and can transform them.

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Intimate geographies of virginal blood

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2022

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“…Mills reveals how the whiteness of those autonomous individuals consenting to membership in political society is obscured by the language of universalism and the metaphorical body politic; yet, as Shatema Threadcraft argues, he neglects "the history of racial injustice on both sides of the public/private divide" and the "intimate capacities" and labors of Black women. 67 Likewise, Lindsay argues that Mills's "Intersecting Contracts" is "too schematic to fully address the complexity of nonwhite women's intersectional experiences," including those lacking heterosexual privilege. 68 Gines similarly posits that "Intersecting Contracts" fails to "push beyond a singular, additive, comparative, or competing analysis of intersecting identities and interlocking systems of oppression .…”

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Thinking with the Intimacy Contract: Social Contract Critique and the Privatization of US Empire

Brown

2020

Political Theory

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This essay considers how an “intimacy contract,” as a conceptual tool and a political reality, extends existing critiques of the social contract tradition by accounting for the privatized nature of the post-9/11 US empire. Examining critiques by Carole Pateman and Charles Mills, I argue that an intimacy contract uncovers the coercive power relations underlying neoliberal discourses of entrepreneurial freedom. Focusing on migrant labor on US military bases, I provide an overview of the racial, sexual, and settler contracts and the need to extend Mills’s and Pateman’s critiques of embodiment and spatiality. Next, I suggest how the intimacy contract generates a transnational, embodied account of the labors upholding US empire; a lens into the shifting significance of these labors under neoliberal imperialism; and a chronicling of desire and workers’ interests. In conclusion, I suggest how the intimacy contract exposes multiple resistances to US empire and neoliberal capitalism.

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