{"title":"The Anti-idealist Black Feminism of The Other Side of Terror","authors":"R. Ferguson","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86493600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Christina Heatherton reflects on lessons from her new book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022) to describe how to avoid the traps of revolutionary nostalgia and engage in the collective process of making radical struggle.
{"title":"How to Make Revolution","authors":"Christina Heatherton","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Christina Heatherton reflects on lessons from her new book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022) to describe how to avoid the traps of revolutionary nostalgia and engage in the collective process of making radical struggle.","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83937818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay recounts how two civil rights organizations—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League—encountered and responded to antiqueer state practices and policies during the Cold War era. It draws upon my forthcoming monograph Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II (University of North Carolina Press), which contends that the modern civil rights movement and the white supremacist backlash to it were crucial arenas in which ideas about Blackness and homosexuality (often defined as same-sex intimacy and gender dissidence) were discursively linked. In this essay, I argue that Black liberals not only encountered politicized concepts of homosexuality, but that their responses, at times, were ambivalent and responsive to a heteronormative state that increasingly criminalized and penalized queer subjects. A work of Black feminist and queer history, this article contributes to a rich interdisciplinary literature that interrogates how anti-Black violence (interpersonal and structural) occurred in gendered and sexual realms with legacies that reverberate into the twenty-first century.
{"title":"Black Liberals, the Cold War Straight State, and the Politics of Ambivalence","authors":"J. Jones","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay recounts how two civil rights organizations—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League—encountered and responded to antiqueer state practices and policies during the Cold War era. It draws upon my forthcoming monograph Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II (University of North Carolina Press), which contends that the modern civil rights movement and the white supremacist backlash to it were crucial arenas in which ideas about Blackness and homosexuality (often defined as same-sex intimacy and gender dissidence) were discursively linked. In this essay, I argue that Black liberals not only encountered politicized concepts of homosexuality, but that their responses, at times, were ambivalent and responsive to a heteronormative state that increasingly criminalized and penalized queer subjects. A work of Black feminist and queer history, this article contributes to a rich interdisciplinary literature that interrogates how anti-Black violence (interpersonal and structural) occurred in gendered and sexual realms with legacies that reverberate into the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79684894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:State violence, particularly in the form of enforced disappearance, is designed to terrorize publics and quell organized forms of dissent. Most fundamentally, however, disappearance as a form of violence operates to disrupt family and kin-based bonds. In this article, I outline how family has emerged as a mobilizing framework to contest enforced disappearance, driven largely in response to how states produce a pervasive sense of uncertainty and liminality for women and their families living in the aftermath of a relative's disappearance. Drawing on an interdisciplinary literature that foregrounds Butler's (2006) notion of "grievability," I detail how the effects of disappearance lay the groundwork for social movements to mobilize under the rubric of family to dispute state-based assertions that the disappeared are "unmournable." Family-based social movements against disappearance highlight the contradictions between the valorized position of "family" in many state ideologies and the disruptions to families wrought by state violence.
{"title":"Uncertainty as Statecraft: Family Movements Contesting Disappearance","authors":"Amina Zarrugh","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:State violence, particularly in the form of enforced disappearance, is designed to terrorize publics and quell organized forms of dissent. Most fundamentally, however, disappearance as a form of violence operates to disrupt family and kin-based bonds. In this article, I outline how family has emerged as a mobilizing framework to contest enforced disappearance, driven largely in response to how states produce a pervasive sense of uncertainty and liminality for women and their families living in the aftermath of a relative's disappearance. Drawing on an interdisciplinary literature that foregrounds Butler's (2006) notion of \"grievability,\" I detail how the effects of disappearance lay the groundwork for social movements to mobilize under the rubric of family to dispute state-based assertions that the disappeared are \"unmournable.\" Family-based social movements against disappearance highlight the contradictions between the valorized position of \"family\" in many state ideologies and the disruptions to families wrought by state violence.","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73601610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recovering the Entangled History of Political and Sexual Radicalism","authors":"Zifeng Liu","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84229858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines media portrayals of reproductive health care from the summer of 2022 as an entry point to reconsider liberal reproductive politics after the Dobbs decision. It argues that these commonsense narratives of medical and legal crisis reflect and reproduce long-standing liberal approaches to reproductive rights, mystifying contemporary reproductive coercion's origins in the management and exploitation of raced reproductivity. Greater attention to the historical racialized structures of reproductive unfreedom, I argue, would enable deeper understandings of the expansion of state control over physical and social reproduction.
{"title":"After Roe: Race, Reproduction, and Life at the Limit of Law","authors":"S. C. Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines media portrayals of reproductive health care from the summer of 2022 as an entry point to reconsider liberal reproductive politics after the Dobbs decision. It argues that these commonsense narratives of medical and legal crisis reflect and reproduce long-standing liberal approaches to reproductive rights, mystifying contemporary reproductive coercion's origins in the management and exploitation of raced reproductivity. Greater attention to the historical racialized structures of reproductive unfreedom, I argue, would enable deeper understandings of the expansion of state control over physical and social reproduction.","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83757450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making of Triple Jeopardy","authors":"Tiana U. Wilson","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76772451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of WSQ, this article offers a snapshot of the history of women’s studies (WS), one that establishes it as an interdisciplinary field alongside Black studies and ethnic studies. It also provides a roundtable among scholars who were integral to the formation of a PhD in WS program, strategies for small undergraduate departments and programs in an era of consolidation and elimination, and a call to reenvision the field’s purpose. In addition to arguing for solidarity and collaboration between women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist (W/G/S/F), Black studies, and ethnic studies, it asks scholars-teachers to reimagine its curricula and research and writing practices as a method of un-disciplining. This is not a simple return to its roots though its history matters in addressing the pressing social justice concerns of the twenty-first century.
{"title":"Women’s Studies and Its Institutionalization as an Interdisciplinary Field: Past, Present, and Future","authors":"L. A. Saraswati, B. Shaw","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of WSQ, this article offers a snapshot of the history of women’s studies (WS), one that establishes it as an interdisciplinary field alongside Black studies and ethnic studies. It also provides a roundtable among scholars who were integral to the formation of a PhD in WS program, strategies for small undergraduate departments and programs in an era of consolidation and elimination, and a call to reenvision the field’s purpose. In addition to arguing for solidarity and collaboration between women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist (W/G/S/F), Black studies, and ethnic studies, it asks scholars-teachers to reimagine its curricula and research and writing practices as a method of un-disciplining. This is not a simple return to its roots though its history matters in addressing the pressing social justice concerns of the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73686009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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