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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Clare Hemmings is a Lecturer in Gender Studies Theory at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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On Collective Endurance: Thinking Gender Studies in Illiberal Times—A Conversation
In honor of Frontier 's fiftieth anniversary, Clare Hemmings and Robyn Wiegman offer a wide-ranging conversation about the institutional and intellectual history of the field now called gender studies. Working in different national contexts—Hemmings in the United Kingdom and Wiegman in the United States—both scholars have devoted their research to deciphering how stories of the field have been told, how these narratives have become part of the field's reproduction of its own common sense, and how (or when) these narratives have been resisted, rejected, or revised. At the same time, they both have been embedded in the practices they identify and study as insiders, as each served multiple terms as chair/head of their respective departments and programs. Using a discussion format, the scholars reflect on these histories and their successes while also attending to the geopolitical rise of state authoritarianism and nationalism that threatens feminist world making in general and higher education in particular.
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How are gender studies scholars resisting anti-gender politics in the United Kingdom?
An interview with Clare Hemmings, professor of feminist theory in the Department of Gender Studies, and Sumi Madhok, professor of political theory and gender studies in the Department of Gender Studies, is presented. Among other things, Hemmings and Madhok how gender studies scholars resisting anti-gender politics in the UK.
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A Feminist Politics of Ambivalence
Feminist theory worldwide is confronting – perhaps as it always has done – a series of deep challenges. On the one hand, awareness of gender and sexual inequalities seems high; on the other, co-optation of feminism for nationalist or other right-wing agendas is rife. On the one hand, feminist social movements are in ascendancy, on the other there is a continued dominance of single issue feminism and a resistance to intersectional, non-binary interventions. If we add in the collapse of the Left in the face of radical movements such as those underpinning Brexit and Trump (and the frequent blaming of feminism for fragmentation of that Left) then it is hard to know what to argue, to whom, and for what ends. In the face of such claims it is tempting to respond with a dogmatic or singular feminism, or to insist that what we need is a shared, clear, certain platform. I want to argue instead – with Emma Goldman (anarchist activist who died in 1940) as my guide – that it can be politically productive to embrace and theorise uncertainty, or even ambivalence, about gender equality and feminism.
A teoria feminista confronta mundialmente no presente momento – talvez como sempre tenha feito – uma série de profundos desafios. Por um lado, a consciência de desigualdades sexuais e de gênero parece alta; por outro, a cooptação do feminismo por agendas nacionalistas ou de extrema direita é frequente. Por um lado, aumentam os movimentos sociais feministas, e por outro há uma continuada supremacia do feminismo hegemônico e uma resistência a intervenções interseccionais não binárias. Se adicionarmos o colapso da esquerda face aos movimentos radicais como os que embasaram o Brexit e Trump (e a frequente acusação ao feminismo de ter fragmentado a esquerda) fica difícil saber o que argumentar, com quem e para quê. Diante desse quadro, fica-se tentada a responder com um feminismo dogmático ou singular, ou insistir na necessidade de uma plataforma compartilhada, clara e precisa. Quero argumentar, no entanto, – com Emma Goldman (ativista anarquista que morreu em 1940) como guia – que pode ser politicamente produtivo abraçar e teorizar a incerteza, e mesmo a ambivalência, com relação à igualdade de gênero e ao feminismo.
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food violence
The cakes don’t talk to you, cajole you, jostle for position in your line of sight? Really. You just go into a cake shop and buy one that looks nice, leave the shop, eat it, and go about your business? You don’t wish maybe you’d bought that éclair with pistachio confectioner’s custard, or the Battenberg slice, or something delicious with caramel (preferably salted)? You don’t breathe a sigh of relief that you got out of that shop unscathed, that the cakes didn’t grow legs, run after you and catch you at the door, smothering you with their competitive creaminess? You don’t hear the others sniggering as you throttle one you’ve managed to pin down, its gloopy inside an embarrassment on the shop floor?
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sexual freedom and the promise of revolution: Emma Goldman's passion
This article explores the contributions to a history of sexuality, capitalism and revolution made when we consider the work of anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869–1940). I suggest that Goldman's centring of sexual freedom at the heart of revolutionary vision and practice is part of a long tradition of sexual politics, one which struggles to make sense of how productive and reproductive labour come together, and to identify the difference between sexual freedom and capitalist opportunity. Goldman's concern with the significance of kinship in holding together capitalism, militarism and religion, as well as sexual feeling's capacity to disrupt those relationships, echoes across more than a century to resonate with Marxist, feminist and queer scholars' engagements with similar issues. But where contemporary scholars often tend to retain the opposition between culture and society, representation and the real, making it difficult to produce a materialist analysis of sexuality as transformative rather than always already overdetermined, Goldman's energetic insistence on sexual connectivity as freeing provides an important vantage point. Not only does Goldman consistently situate sexuality in a broad political context of the sexual division of labour, the institutions of marriage and the church, consumerism, patriotism and productive (as well as reproductive) labour, she frames sexual freedom as both the basis of new relationships between men and women, and as a model for a new political future.
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In the Mood for Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion
This article has two aims: to theorize ways in which mood is gendered, and to explore the importance of gendered mood in the life and work of Emma Goldman (anarchist writer and activist, 1869-1940). In the first part I track ways in which accounting for gender and sexuality changes how we think about mood with respect to duration, and as mediating the intersection of the public and private. I then proceed to highlight how mood is significant for Emma Goldman in her quest for women’s emancipation being taken seriously as part of revolutionary process. For Goldman, women’s moods must be transformed so that they can become revolutionary subjects, and their current mood is part of how the relationship between public and private so essential to capitalism is maintained. Further Goldman’s own moods—by turns enthusiastic and vicious—are key both as part of her method of persuasion, and as what prevents her retaining the important distinction between women’s role and women’s character.
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