Accusations of madness have long been hurled at queer and feminist bodies, and typically when people are deemed mad, they are granted little agency. This article attempts to read madness as potentially agentic when it manifests as what we call a "queer performativity of madness." Using the writing of and rhetoric surrounding Valerie Solanas, the infamous radical feminist known for shooting Andy Warhol, we develop the notion of a queer performativity of madness and show how historical figures like Solanas read against the binary oppositions that often create our understanding of sexuality, reason, and politics. Though madness does not always supply agency, we suggest that rethinking madness offers fruitful resources for feminist and queer theory.
My argument is straightforward if queer: Racism is some sense an "affair" between men. Of course, racism is not only an affair between men. Women have very much been victims: White men's assaults on Black women from slavery to the present is, for instance, well known. Nor I am suggesting that "race" can be reduced to gender; it cannot. But it does have to do with sex and desire, as the pandemic White male rape of Black female (and, there is some evidence to suggest, male) slaves as well as post-"emancipation" obsessions with Black male sexuality (specifically, rape) make explicit. The centrality of castration in lynching—a primarily post-Civil War phenomenon that took the lives of at least 3,000 mostly young Black men—underscores White men's interest in the Black male phallus. What I suggest is that racial violence and racial politics cannot be understood unless "queered."
In her evocative ethnographic study, Body Language, Kimberly Lau traces the multiple ways in which the success of an innovative fitness program illuminates what identity means to its Black female clientele and how their group interaction provides a new perspective on feminist theories of identity politics-especially regarding the significance of identity to political activism and social change. Sisters in Shape, Inc., Fitness Consultants (SIS), a Philadelphia company, promotes balance in physical, mental, and spiritual health. Its program goes beyond workouts, as it edu.
Considers the salience of some of Marx's methodological thought for feminist issues & politics in the context of globalization. Following a look at some of the characteristics of globalization & its effects on women, a Marxist critique of globalization is elaborated. It is contended that Marxist analysis, specifically, Marxist-feminism, provides the perspective necessary to make sense of globalization, particularly in terms of its impact on women & the material conditions determining the ideologies through which women interpret their shifting conditions. The theoretical & ideological polarizations in feminist thought spawned under globalization are delineated, calling for an alternative form of feminism that allows for a different way to think about Marx, feminism, & globalization & enables the transcendence of these polarities. J. Zendejas
The article is devoted to the analysis of the sociological work of famous researchers — Ann Oakley, Donna Haraway, Shulamit Firestone and Judith Butler, who worked within the framework of the feminist paradigm in sociology, which interprets social phenomena and processes from a femininocentric point of view. The work of these women sociologists has become a kind of intellectual manifesto — a written statement of the scientific principles of the feminist trend in sociology, based on the belief in the constant discrimination of women in all spheres of social life.Ie author analyzes the works of a bright representative of the liberal-reformist trend in feminism, Ann Oakley, whose scientific work is divided into four areas: "sex and gender", "domestic work and family life", "childbirth and medicine" and "sociology proper". Exactly E. Oakley is considered the ancestor of the concept of "gender" in sociology. She divorced the concepts of "gender" (gender) as an unshakable biological attribute and as a cultural determinant that determines the conceptualization of "masculinity" and "femininity".The article pays enough attention to one of the founders of cyberfeminism — a trend in modern feminist thought associated with the study of cyberspace, the Internet and information technology — Donna Jean Haraway, whose greatest fame was brought by the "cyborg theory". A cyborg is a being whose borderline position at the intersection of the boundaries between nature and culture, body and mind, sex and gender, fact and fiction, serves as an argument for denying biological sex as a determinant of gender inequality in culture and society.A significant place in the article is occupied by the figure of Shulamit Firestone, one of the founders of radical feminism. Her works, based on the fusion of ideas borrowed from Marxism, feminism and psychoanalysis, carried out a subtle scientific analysis that allowed linking the structures of gender inequality and economic stratification, as well as environmental degradation and the policy of scientific knowledge. In a style that later became a hallmark of feminist works of the 1970s, Sh. Firestone showed clear and internal links between the generally accepted expression of heterosexuality, "forced femininity" and the institutionalization of gender inequality.At the end of the article, the author turns to the work of Judith Butler, a representative of poststructuralism, a specialist in the Jeld of phenomenology and theory of gender, who opposes the existentialist vision of the problems of personality and being, culture and general human physiology, the interdependence between gender and sexual relations.In general, the works of modern theorists of sociology and at the same time feminist sociologists have set new fields of sociological search, these feminist sociologists call for the construction of a new model of society, up to the establishment of a "new gender order" at the macro and micro levels of social life.
The colonization process of Europe and civilization in the Americas set up his «world system» and with it the «single truth» that considers no human any knowledge different. Latin American critical thought propose unlearn western models and transform knowledge systems. The reason objective, scientific, positivist is put on trial. Women's Studies emerged as critical vision and defies patriarchal reason, that becomes invisible to women and distorts their contribution to knowledge. Feminist critical theory is a strategy to dismantle the epistemological paradigm that justifies beliefs, dogmas, customs, traditions of male authority. The study of the body is an epistemological challenge to feminist studies.
Halberstam describes her work on the politics of transgender biography, noting that there has been a surge of international interest recently in female to male transgendering. She describes the reasons for this interest as a reaction against overtly racist & homophobic governments, citing the Brandon Teena case in example. Halberstam feels that identity with subject is not necessary for writing academic texts, but biography is a special case where insiders are more likely to know the truth. Halberstam does not believe that feminism & queer studies should be put into different camps, but need to work together. Halberstam describes her interest in the urban, rural, & drag king cultures. M. Pflum
This paper focuses on the link between bodies and public space, proposing a reflection on embodied subjectivities and embodied practices of performing in public space. It takes into account bodies as political means and sites of resistance, revolt, reinvention, and creation, following an embodied and feminist approach. This paper aims to underline the fact that bodies are political and that an embodied approach to public space is fundamental in order to re-think contemporary democracies. It will show how the embodied and feminist approach can provide essential tools to undo the modern idea of an absolute individual subject that lies at the heart of the neoliberal vision, pinpointing dependency, relationship, and vulnerability as defining attributes of being human. This approach has been giving life to new visions of politics, such as those we have seen embodied in a number of protests and political practices of dissent marking the latest years, here investigated in their political potential for a reshaping of the democratic public space.
Gender has been theorised and studied in many ways and across different disciplines. Although a number of these theorisations have been recognised and adopted in marketing and consumer research, the significance of feminism in knowledge construction has largely remained what we would call 'unfinished'. Based on a critical reframing of gender research in marketing and consumer research, in dialogue with feminist theory, this article offers theoretical and practical suggestions for how to reinvigorate these research efforts. The analysis highlights dominant theorisations of gender, relating to gender as variable, difference and role; as fundamental difference and structuring; and as cultural and identity constructions. This reframing emphasises various neglected or 'missing feminisms', including queer theory; critical race, intersectional and transnational feminisms; material-discursive feminism; and critical studies on men and masculinities. A more detailed discussion of the latter, as a relatively new, growing and politically contentious area, is further developed to highlight more specifically which feminist and gender theories are mainly in use in marketing and consumer research and which are little or not used. In the light of this, it is argued that marketing and related disciplines have thus far largely neglected several key contemporary gender and feminist theorisations, particularly those that centre on gender power relations. The potential impact of these theoretical frames on transdisciplinary studies in marketing and consumer research and research agenda(s) is discussed.
Preliminary Material -- FEMINIST MOVEMENTS IN MEXICO: FROM CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING GROUPS TO TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS /Martha Zapata Galindo -- AN APPROACH TO CUBAN FEMINIST IDEAS AND OBJECTIVES: ECHOES FROM THE PAST, VOICES FROM THE PRESENT /Norma Vasallo Barrueta -- Latin American Feminist Philosophy: Early Twentieth-Century Uruguay /Amy A. Oliver -- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, UNFAIR REWARDS: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND GENDER STRATEGIES IN URUGUAYAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS /Adriana Marrero -- MULTIPLE FEMINISMS: FEMINIST IDEAS AND PRACTICES IN LATIN AMERICA /Francesca Gargallo -- ON THE TRAIL OF GENDER /María Esther Pozo -- A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY /María Julia Palacios -- THINKING PATRIARCHY /Celia Amorós -- THE CHALLENGE OF DIFFERENCES IN LATIN AMERICAN FEMINISM /María Luisa Femenías -- POSTMODERNITY AND UTOPIA: RECLAIMING FEMINIST GROUNDS ON NEW TERRAINS /Ofelia Schutte -- FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY AND UTOPIA: A POWERFUL ALLIANCE /Ana María Bach , Margarita Roulet and María Isabel Santa Cruz -- UNTHINKING GENDER: THE TRAFFIC IN THEORY IN THE AMERICAS /Claudia de Lima Costa -- PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND SEXUALITY /Alicia H. Puleo -- THE ETHICS OF PLEASURE /Graciela Hierro -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.
What does it mean to decolonize transnational feminist theory in the context of globalization? As a project concerned with multiple power structures, feminist theory must address the historical legacies of colonialism, postcolonialism, and more recently, decoloniality. This book offers essays organized around a coherent set of research questions about how to conceptualize an inclusive feminist politics. This has been, and continues to be, a central project in feminist theory, particularly in light of neoliberal globalization
Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence, compiling two decades of writing on this theme by noted genocide scholar Adam Jones.
The present article focuses on analyzing the methodology of one of the most prominent representatives of Islamic feminism, Amina Wadud. The author highlights the close link between the social status of an exegete, his/ her personal experience and the hermeneutic approach, formulated by him/ her. The essential components of the hermeneutic project by Anima Wadud are emphasized as a main theme of research. Combining intratextual and historical approaches is justified as being necessary for meaningful reconstruction of the "Qur'anic ethos". It is also shown that feminist exegesis is only possible if the interpretation of the Qur'an as a "closed" text is replaced by the assertion of it being a complete discourse, "opening" within the logic of readers' questions. The dependence of the exegeses by Amina Wadud on the conceptual body of the project by Fazlur Rahman — namely, on the idea of contextual ij tihad, the theory of "double shift" and the holistic method of interpretation, — was deeply studied during the research. The author accentuates the two primary presuppositions of the American feminist, namely: the image of God as "the One Who does not oppress" and of human being as God's "deputy". In conclusion, the author turns to the main theme of feminist critique of traditional tafsirs — the urge to deconstruct "patriarchy" as a covert system of idolatry and "masculinization" of God.