Is anybody keeping abreast of the recent feminist theory and can recommend a few titles? By recent I mean the last decade.
I need to write something for a feminist journal, and I need a smattering of theory to mask my profound disinterest in the subject.
What is your interest in queer theory?
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Don’t you remember my research on intersexuality? I’m very proud of that one. At least, nobody has protested on the grounds I’m not intersex.
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This is a smattering. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/the-bloomsbury-handbook-of-21st-century-feminist-theory-9781350032385/
And I’d look at this recent symposium on Patricia Hill Collins’ classic — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2015.1058492?src=recsys&journalCode=rers20
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It’s a good one. I’ll definitely get it once it’s out. I looked up other books by this author and they seem interesting. Thank you!
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…and there’s a mass of stuff in Spanish of course…
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Robyn Wiegman (Duke) is a fairly big name in feminist studies. Her book Object Lessons (Duke UP, 2012) might be of interest to you (it deals with gender as well as race and queer theory), but I haven’t read it, so I don’t know if it’s any good. Sara Ahmed is another well-know feminist academic who also writes about gender, affect theory, race, and postcolonialism.
It seems to me that there’s not much feminist theory that focuses on women only, because the concept of “woman” is seen to be “exclusionary.” In many ways, this is a health development–intersectionality serves to remind us that not all women are the same and that we have to take into account other identities (e.g., race) when thinking about women. (Although my favorite academic feminist, Toril Moi, has said that she doesn’t know of any feminists who have ever tried to claim that all women are the same.) But at the same time, I wonder if the category of woman is ceasing to be central in feminism and women’s studies, which has now morphed into gender studies.
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Interesting. Ditto Sara Ahmed.
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I just discovered a promising title: The Making of Emotional Capitalism by Eva Illouz.
I don’t get excited unless it mentions capitalism. :-)))
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That’s fascinating!
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There was also this symposium on it. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2008/11/authors-roundtable-ii-eva-illouzs-cold.html
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Thank you, this is great.
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