Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231200165
Christine Hume, Laura Larson
{"title":"ALL THE WOMEN I KNOW","authors":"Christine Hume, Laura Larson","doi":"10.1177/01417789231200165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231200165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"92 1","pages":"45 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139303246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231205297
Casey Burkholder, Katie MacEntee, Amelia Thorpe
{"title":"solidarity through mail-based participatory visual research: exploring queer and feminist futures through an art, activism and archiving project with 2SLGBTQ+ youth amidst COVID-19","authors":"Casey Burkholder, Katie MacEntee, Amelia Thorpe","doi":"10.1177/01417789231205297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231205297","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic posed a logistical problem to our normal ways of engaging in participatory visual research. Our in-person art, activism and archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth pivoted to use distanced engagement strategies that met the demands of the pandemic. We sought to create networks of solidarity while we were apart. Monthly, over the course of a year, we mailed out themed packages of art supplies and directions to fifty-five 2SLGBTQ+ youth situated in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. Participants then created the artworks, photographed them and contextualised them through text. While the resulting co-curated digital archive includes multiple mediums, here we focus on the participants’ zines and dioramas for what they taught us about 2SLGBTQ+ youth’s identities, activism, beliefs, friends, home, family, fears, strengths and futures. The digital archive of our artwork deconstructs, explores and affirms identities and functions to build solidarity during a time of increased isolation. We argue that collaboratively building the digital archive was a feminist act of reclamation and a declaration of youth queer activism.","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"135 1","pages":"141 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139295347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231166700
Olga Cielemęcka
{"title":"The Grammar of Belonging: Bodies, Borders and Kin in the Belarusian—Polish Border Crisis","authors":"Olga Cielemęcka","doi":"10.1177/01417789231166700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231166700","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to be what Jasbir Puar referred to as ‘an unfolding archive’. It makes a critical intervention at a historical crisis point as it is unfolding. It sets out to examine the logic that writes the relations between bodies, borders and kin during the political crisis that transpired at the border of Belarus and Poland in 2021. I think of this logic in terms of a ‘grammar’, drawing on the idea articulated by Hortense J. Spillers, where ‘American grammar’ fleshes out the connection between slavery, kinship, nation-building and the processes of gendering. I examine the rubrics of the hegemonic national grammatics in contemporary Poland, which establishes who counts as kin and who belongs to the nation in the context of the border crisis. I offer the concept of ‘declining’ kinship to seek generative (im)possibilities to articulate affinities and solidarities running against the dominant system of reproductive nationalism.","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"1 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47954213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231166412
Alexandria Wilson-McDonald
{"title":"do Czech Women Need ‘Gender’?: A Conceptual History of ‘Gender’ in Czechia","authors":"Alexandria Wilson-McDonald","doi":"10.1177/01417789231166412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231166412","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a growing anti-feminist, conservative movement across many parts of the world known as the anti-gender movement. This movement has been especially strong in Central Eastern Europe, where anti-gender actors have framed ‘gender’ as a static, foreign concept imported from ‘the West’ and destructive to ‘traditional’ societies. Utilising a postcolonial feminist approach, I examine the concept of ‘gender’ in Czechia, drawing attention to the role played by Czech academics, activists and policymakers in negotiating the use of the term ‘gender’. This article traces the history of the term from the 1990s when ‘gender’ was first introduced to a Czech academic audience, through public seminars and lectures hosted by the Prague Gender Studies Centre, to the present-day inclusion of gender mainstreaming discourse in Czech policy documents. I reveal that ‘gender’ is not a timeless, clearly defined, fixed term wholly imported from ‘the West’ but rather a concept with a variable and complicated history. Thus, this crucial term, first developed in Anglo-academia, is not uncontested or uncritically accepted, contrary to the claims made by anti-gender actors. The findings presented in this article hold implications critical to transnational feminist dialogue and activism during the current period of growing global anti-feminist sentiment.","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"21 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42338631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231155896
Altman Yuzhu Peng, Z. Chen, S. Chen
{"title":"A wen-wu Approach to Male Teenage Chinese Sports Fans’ Heteronormative Interpretation of Masculinity","authors":"Altman Yuzhu Peng, Z. Chen, S. Chen","doi":"10.1177/01417789231155896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231155896","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses how performatively heteronormative, male teenage Chinese fans consume sports games through the prism of masculinity, using secondary school students’ engagement with the NBA (National Basketball Association) as a case study. Drawing on focus groups of twenty-three participants, we discover that male teenage sports fans constantly evoke elite NBA athletes as male ideals to define a desirable, heteronormative wen-wu masculinity specific to the post-reform era. In this process, they often engage in a double-standard practice, manifesting as their appropriation of the CP (coupling) rhetoric to ‘ship’ athletes and their problematisation of heterosexual women and LGBTQ fans’ similar usage of it. This double-standard practice constitutes an attempt to monopolise the interpretation of masculinity both within and outside of the sporting context. It sheds light on the heteronormative male cohort’s rejection of alternative masculinities, underscoring how aspects of gender politics unfolding in wider society are reflected in China’s teenage sports fandom.","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"69 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49642074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231166827
F. Ashley, Sam Sanchinel
{"title":"The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine","authors":"F. Ashley, Sam Sanchinel","doi":"10.1177/01417789231166827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231166827","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson as a heroine through the notion of labour, emphasising how heroine narratives are both a product of labour as well as a form of labour. After offering a short account of Marsha P. Johnson’s role in the Stonewall riots and STAR, we explore the development of trans communities’ ability to create, sustain and disseminate heroine narratives, emphasising Tourmaline’s pivotal archival role in establishing Johnson’s legacy. Then, we elucidate the role of heroine narratives in creating and sustaining a collective identity. We argue that community attachment to Marsha P. Johnson reclaims the place of trans communities in LGBTQ+ history but is often done in a manner that obscures the whiteness of mainstream trans advocacy. We suggest that the recent increase in interest towards the life-sustaining labour of STAR House reflects the evolution of trans collective identity in the post-visibility era.","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"39 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42340048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231172876
Neeti Shetty
{"title":"‘Pound Her Well Turn by Turn’: Examining Female Agency in Select South-Indian Tulu Folk Songs","authors":"Neeti Shetty","doi":"10.1177/01417789231172876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231172876","url":null,"abstract":"This piece will attempt to see beyond the romanticisation of the lives of hardship and instead portray the diverse facets of the experiences of a select folk group. Folk songs carry many traditions in them and have been composed, sung and passed on through generations orally by anonymous individuals. These individuals tend to belong to the lower socioeconomic strata of society. When Moonlight Is Very Hot (Rao and Gowda, 2018) is a collection of English translations of Tulu1 work songs or kabitas and dance songs, translated and compiled by B. Surendra Rao and K. Chinnappa Gowda. Moreover, the role of women here fits this idea of the ‘folk’. In particular, the women in the kabitas were commonly exploited and yet sometimes displayed outright sexuality (ibid., pp. 28, 47). These can be seen in the kabitas ‘Handsome Tawny Red Bull’ and ‘As I Was Going Along the Field’. Some songs like ‘Our Lady Darane’ and ‘Work! Work Only!’ reflect the experiences of migrant labourers who come looking for work in these fields. Songs like ‘Our Lady Darane’ showcase the resistance of the women in both visible and invisible forms, thereby defining their social realities. However, the song ‘Work! Work Only!’ illustrates the unwillingness of women to leave their homes presumably due to the poor working conditions or arguably because they have to tend to their husbands, which is of utmost priority as evident in the text (ibid., p. 27).","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"62 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45811323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789231178235
Rehanna Kheshgi
{"title":"Queering Assamese Bihu Festival Performance","authors":"Rehanna Kheshgi","doi":"10.1177/01417789231178235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231178235","url":null,"abstract":"Assamese Bihu songs reflect and enact a world brimming with potential. Originating in the Brahmaputra River valley of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, these springtime New Year’s festival songs connect imagery of blossoming flowers, ripening fruits, singing birds and other seasonal representations of life to human desire. Bihu song narratives often include the nasoni , a dancer-singer who embodies idealised aspects of Assamese femininity in her physical presentation, voice, comportment and knowledge of cultural traditions. Songs praise the nasoni ’s ritual performance as part of the blessing of village households every April, accompanied by the drumming, dancing and singing of her masculine counterparts. 1 With the memory of her performance lingering in the air, the entranced onlooker in the following Bihu song invents an excuse to be near the nasoni","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"56 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43670685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist ReviewPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221146572
Pavithra Prasad
{"title":"Notes on a Terrestrial Performance of Outer Space","authors":"Pavithra Prasad","doi":"10.1177/01417789221146572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789221146572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"133 1","pages":"81 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49382165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}