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Gesture, Revolt, and 1970s Feminism in John Cassavetes's A Woman under the Influence
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 227-247
ISSN: 1545-6943
MUSIC AND IMPOSSIBILITY
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 369-371
ISSN: 1527-9375
TOM RIPLEY, QUEER EXCEPTIONALISM, AND THE ANXIETY OF BEING CLOSE TO NORMAL
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 102-115
ISSN: 1469-2899
The politics of love: Women's liberation and feeling differently
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 5-33
ISSN: 1741-2773
Contemporary queer interrogations of heteronormativity are fraught with the traces of feminist contestations of the intimate domains of women's `ordinary' lives during the era of the women's liberation movement. These traces remain enigmatic within contemporary theories of public affect and emotion rather than incorporated into their critiques of the present political moment. This essay argues that the work of the early women's liberationists — their attempts to bring the personal into view as the dense, affect laden, site of social reproduction — can offer us a countermemory to the enduring and alluring force of the `private' domains of love and ordinary feeling in the contemporary US national public sphere. In order to hear the echoes of that moment — the time of women's liberation — in this one, the essay stages a comparative reading between two novels, Doris Lessing's A Ripple from the Storm (1958) and June Arnold's The Cook and the Carpenter: A Novel by the Carpenter (1973). Although the two novels were written over a decade apart, both have as their subject the dense and complex relations between political action, personal relationships and feelings within a (broadly conceived) feminist paradigm. By taking the risk of an odd conjunction, and reading the two novels side-by-side, the essay aims to open up the messiness and contingencies of an era in which both `the political' and `the personal' were contested terms, their meanings challenged, their domains struggled over, their practices altered and, in some cases, transformed.
Feminism and its ghosts: The spectre of the feminist-as-lesbian
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 227-250
ISSN: 1741-2773
This article contends that feminism is haunted by its past, and that to be haunted means that feminists need to bear witness to the possibilities, often unrealized, of that past and to actively resist the policing and defensiveness that have marked feminism's relationship to its diverse history in recent years. It engages with the work of Terry Castle and Avery Gordon in order to make this argument, and to map out a methodology for looking for the ghosts of the recent feminist past. In looking for one such ghost - the figure of the feminist-as-lesbian - the article asks, how does the trope of the apparitional in lesbian cultural visibility structure cultural memories of the second wave movement? To that end the article discusses the presence of the ghost in a recent feminist/queer study of feminist historicity and in the popular press respectively. The final section looks back to the 1980s in order to trace the connections between then and now, and, therefore, something of what the ghost wants us to remember.
Experience, echo, event: Theorising feminist histories, historicising feminist theory
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 103-117
ISSN: 1741-2773
On 'The evidence of experience' and its reverberations: An interview with Joan W. Scott
In: Feminist theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 197-207
ISSN: 1741-2773