{"title":"The End of Roe","authors":"J. Schoen","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"828 - 830"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43627590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Gupta, Carly Thomsen, Jennifer D. Ortegren, Karin Hanta, Jessyka Finley, Kristin Bright, Laurie Essig, Catharine Wright, Patricia Saldarriaga, Fernando Rocha
Abstract:By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We selected seminar texts based on topics explored in recent special issues of Feminist and Queer Studies journals, including: feminist method, feminist technoscience and new materialisms, affect, and feminist and queer geographies. Following a week-long feminist and queer theory workshop, participants reflect on how our discussions regarding method, archives, and objects of study inform their own intellectual and political concerns and commitments. Ultimately, this article offers insights into the new engagements and vocabularies engendered by feminist and queer theory as it travels across and against varied disciplinary persuasions.
{"title":"What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory?: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects","authors":"H. Gupta, Carly Thomsen, Jennifer D. Ortegren, Karin Hanta, Jessyka Finley, Kristin Bright, Laurie Essig, Catharine Wright, Patricia Saldarriaga, Fernando Rocha","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We selected seminar texts based on topics explored in recent special issues of Feminist and Queer Studies journals, including: feminist method, feminist technoscience and new materialisms, affect, and feminist and queer geographies. Following a week-long feminist and queer theory workshop, participants reflect on how our discussions regarding method, archives, and objects of study inform their own intellectual and political concerns and commitments. Ultimately, this article offers insights into the new engagements and vocabularies engendered by feminist and queer theory as it travels across and against varied disciplinary persuasions.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"713 - 743"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44079700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article argues that first-wave feminism is best understood as a relatively concurrent, multipolar irruption of women's claims to subjectivity wherein suffrage was not the main objective, but rather just one particular historically contingent outcome among many. It seeks to overturn models that understand early feminism as a Euro-American phenomenon to which women in the so-called third world or non-western world were latecomers. In a close reading of the Argentine literary journal Búcaro Americano (1896-1908) headed by established author Clorinda Matto de Turner and Japan's Seitō (1911-1916), a feminist literary journal headed by up-an-coming author and feminist Hiratsuka Raichō, I trace the specific articulations of subjectivity proffered by the journals' writers and editors. Specifically, I find that the specific subjectivity evinced by the women producing these journals was a fundamentally internationalized one owing on the one hand to the economic changes to the global economy wrought by liberalism and on the other to women's exclusion from national discourse by both law and custom. Ultimately, I argue that by understanding these texts as part of larger feminist movement that arose contemporaneously in multiple locations around the world, a more holistic and less imperialist view of first-wave feminism becomes apparent.
摘要:本文认为,第一波女权主义最好被理解为女性主体性主张的相对同时的多极爆发,其中选举权不是主要目标,而只是众多目标中的一个特定的历史偶然结果。它试图推翻那些将早期女权主义理解为欧美现象的模式,即所谓的第三世界或非西方世界的女性是后来者。在仔细阅读由知名作家Clorinda Matto de Turner领导的阿根廷文学杂志《Búcaro Americano》(1896年-1908年)和由后起之秀作家、女权主义者Hiratsuka Raichō领导的女权主义文学杂志《Seitō;》(1911-1916年)时,我追溯了这些杂志的作者和编辑对主体性的具体阐述。具体而言,我发现,制作这些期刊的女性所表现出的特定主观性从根本上是国际化的,一方面是由于自由主义对全球经济的经济变化,另一方面是因为法律和习俗将女性排除在国家话语之外。最终,我认为,通过将这些文本理解为同时在世界多个地方兴起的更大规模女权主义运动的一部分,对第一波女权主义的更全面、更少帝国主义的看法变得显而易见。
{"title":"Moving Mountains and Uprooting Weeds: Literary Subjectivity, First Wave Feminism, and Women's Magazines in Latin America and Japan","authors":"Amy C. Obermeyer","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0059","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that first-wave feminism is best understood as a relatively concurrent, multipolar irruption of women's claims to subjectivity wherein suffrage was not the main objective, but rather just one particular historically contingent outcome among many. It seeks to overturn models that understand early feminism as a Euro-American phenomenon to which women in the so-called third world or non-western world were latecomers. In a close reading of the Argentine literary journal Búcaro Americano (1896-1908) headed by established author Clorinda Matto de Turner and Japan's Seitō (1911-1916), a feminist literary journal headed by up-an-coming author and feminist Hiratsuka Raichō, I trace the specific articulations of subjectivity proffered by the journals' writers and editors. Specifically, I find that the specific subjectivity evinced by the women producing these journals was a fundamentally internationalized one owing on the one hand to the economic changes to the global economy wrought by liberalism and on the other to women's exclusion from national discourse by both law and custom. Ultimately, I argue that by understanding these texts as part of larger feminist movement that arose contemporaneously in multiple locations around the world, a more holistic and less imperialist view of first-wave feminism becomes apparent.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"850 - 879"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46303552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Television plays an instrumental role in people’s lives. Of the many experiences I shared with my family growing up were evenings in front of the TV, watching telenovelas, sitcoms, or movies. On the one hand, telenovelas hyperbolized what it meant to be Latin American — in my case, Mexican — and on the other hand, popular American sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s did not reflect families like mine — predominantly Spanish-speaking and immigrant.30 During my formative years, nuanced representations of Latinas/xs were few and far between.31 I remember watching Dirty Dancing (1987) with my mom as a teenager and asking her what happened to Penny. My mom could not find the words to explain an abortion, let alone an illegal one that led to Penny’s injuries. While Penny is not a Latina/x character, it was revealing to see that abortion was depicted in such a negative light, and it was telling that my mom would not tell me what happened to Penny. My interest in knowing more about the representation of abortion on screen nonetheless led to uncomfortable conversations with my mother, a Mexican immigrant with a Catholic upbringing. Ultimately, those conversations influenced me to ask more questions about abortion representations on the small screen: Where are the Latina/x stories about abortion (care) or reproductive decisions beyond pregnancy and motherhood? How do these representations challenge traditional and stigmatized representations, pointing to more inclusive experiences? What do representations (or the lack thereof ) on the small screen mean for Latina/x popular culture and stories? Now that we are in the post-Roe moment following the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs, we need abortion-positive representations across all aspects of life more than ever, especially for people of color and marginalized communities.
{"title":"Latina/x Abortion Narratives in Popular Culture","authors":"Melissa Huerta","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Television plays an instrumental role in people’s lives. Of the many experiences I shared with my family growing up were evenings in front of the TV, watching telenovelas, sitcoms, or movies. On the one hand, telenovelas hyperbolized what it meant to be Latin American — in my case, Mexican — and on the other hand, popular American sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s did not reflect families like mine — predominantly Spanish-speaking and immigrant.30 During my formative years, nuanced representations of Latinas/xs were few and far between.31 I remember watching Dirty Dancing (1987) with my mom as a teenager and asking her what happened to Penny. My mom could not find the words to explain an abortion, let alone an illegal one that led to Penny’s injuries. While Penny is not a Latina/x character, it was revealing to see that abortion was depicted in such a negative light, and it was telling that my mom would not tell me what happened to Penny. My interest in knowing more about the representation of abortion on screen nonetheless led to uncomfortable conversations with my mother, a Mexican immigrant with a Catholic upbringing. Ultimately, those conversations influenced me to ask more questions about abortion representations on the small screen: Where are the Latina/x stories about abortion (care) or reproductive decisions beyond pregnancy and motherhood? How do these representations challenge traditional and stigmatized representations, pointing to more inclusive experiences? What do representations (or the lack thereof ) on the small screen mean for Latina/x popular culture and stories? Now that we are in the post-Roe moment following the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs, we need abortion-positive representations across all aspects of life more than ever, especially for people of color and marginalized communities.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"839 - 843"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42981581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abortion Is Made a Crime Again in the United States","authors":"L. Reagan","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"844 - 849"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46802179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Power of Storytelling in a Post-Roe America","authors":"Belinda Waller-Peterson","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"831 - 834"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48977218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article responds to the invitation to participate in Feminist Studies' celebration by reflecting on current stories about 'sex' and 'gender' that take place both within and outside of feminism. I start from how it feels to be subject to anti-gender attacks as someone who has worked within feminist studies for over three decades. I interrogate how affective temporality is mobilised both by anti-gender advocates in order to justify forms of violence as forms of defence, and by those targeted by anti-gender mobilisations. Focusing specifically on anti-trans* arguments within feminist theory, I revisit the progress, loss and return narratives of Why Stories Matter (2011) to try and unpick and resist the teleological assumptions underpinning fantasies that 'sex' and 'gender' were ever and ever could be in a settled relationship. Rethinking these questions also raises methodological ones about 'what next?' that I try to answer with a form of recitation that focuses on the multiple genealogies of a sex determinist rather than sex essentialist history within the field.
{"title":"\"But I thought we'd already won that argument!\": \"Anti-gender\" Mobilizations, Affect, and Temporality","authors":"Clare Hemmings","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article responds to the invitation to participate in Feminist Studies' celebration by reflecting on current stories about 'sex' and 'gender' that take place both within and outside of feminism. I start from how it feels to be subject to anti-gender attacks as someone who has worked within feminist studies for over three decades. I interrogate how affective temporality is mobilised both by anti-gender advocates in order to justify forms of violence as forms of defence, and by those targeted by anti-gender mobilisations. Focusing specifically on anti-trans* arguments within feminist theory, I revisit the progress, loss and return narratives of Why Stories Matter (2011) to try and unpick and resist the teleological assumptions underpinning fantasies that 'sex' and 'gender' were ever and ever could be in a settled relationship. Rethinking these questions also raises methodological ones about 'what next?' that I try to answer with a form of recitation that focuses on the multiple genealogies of a sex determinist rather than sex essentialist history within the field.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"594 - 615"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49579096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With Plexiglass — apparent clarity insults the sights one knows are real. Such “clear-through” view belies the under-seen, whose under-scene has under-sites, palimpsests of seams and slashed brights. It’s scratched on, long, wide, ruination, runic stun-writ X’ed up cogitation, graffiti on tap, on top, a lens. A lens to focus on the overThere, on painted names, made fresh and slick, glyphs stacked scaling up unreachable spots highing zip. Styled pridelines, spray-slid onomastics, screedy graphics, seen under scratchings made here; wise to there, signature marks sprayed along the pock-marked brick.
有了有机玻璃——表面上的清晰度侮辱了人们所知道的真实景象。这种“清晰”的视角掩盖了被低估的人,他们的场景下有被低估的地点、接缝的重写本和被切开的亮点。它有划痕,长的,宽的,毁灭性的,符文眩晕令状X’ed up cognition,在水龙头上涂鸦,在顶部,一个镜头。一个聚焦在上面的镜头,在画好的名字上,制作得新鲜而光滑,字形堆叠在无法到达的地方,高高的拉链。造型骄傲,喷雾滑动的象征主义,碎石图形,在这里制作的划痕下可以看到;明智的做法是,沿着有麻点的砖块喷上了标志性的痕迹。
{"title":"Plexiglass, and: Several Cosmological Turns, and: Available Choices","authors":"R. Duplessis","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0064","url":null,"abstract":"With Plexiglass — apparent clarity insults the sights one knows are real. Such “clear-through” view belies the under-seen, whose under-scene has under-sites, palimpsests of seams and slashed brights. It’s scratched on, long, wide, ruination, runic stun-writ X’ed up cogitation, graffiti on tap, on top, a lens. A lens to focus on the overThere, on painted names, made fresh and slick, glyphs stacked scaling up unreachable spots highing zip. Styled pridelines, spray-slid onomastics, screedy graphics, seen under scratchings made here; wise to there, signature marks sprayed along the pock-marked brick.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"890 - 895"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44182311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The death of twenty-two-year-old Jîna "Mahsa" Amini, while in the custody of Iran's morality police in the autumn of 2022, sparked nationwide protests throughout Iran. Iranian women came out to the streets in large numbers, performing a revolutionary femininity that defied mandatory veiling and disrupted the state-prescribed order.This article situates these protests in the broader history of women's struggles in post-revolutionary Iran and sheds a critical light on what has come to be called a "feminist revolution." It critically assesses the impact of the protests in creating a space for sisterhood, crossing class and ethnic boundaries in Iran and providing the impetus for envisioning feminist solidarities across national borders.
{"title":"In Her Name: (Re)Imagining Feminist Solidarities in the Aftermath of the Iran Protests","authors":"N. Shahrokni","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The death of twenty-two-year-old Jîna \"Mahsa\" Amini, while in the custody of Iran's morality police in the autumn of 2022, sparked nationwide protests throughout Iran. Iranian women came out to the streets in large numbers, performing a revolutionary femininity that defied mandatory veiling and disrupted the state-prescribed order.This article situates these protests in the broader history of women's struggles in post-revolutionary Iran and sheds a critical light on what has come to be called a \"feminist revolution.\" It critically assesses the impact of the protests in creating a space for sisterhood, crossing class and ethnic boundaries in Iran and providing the impetus for envisioning feminist solidarities across national borders.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"896 - 901"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46051276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}