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Feminist Keywords
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Feminist Keywords introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements.
Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism's political and intellectual debates—from the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frameworks arise out of queer, feminist and anti-racist engagements with matter and ecology as well as efforts to imagine forms of relationality beyond settler colonial and imperialist epistemologies
Reflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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Queer
Jul 25, 202400:21:36Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Chandan Reddy, author of the "queer" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr Reddy talks about his own history as a queer activist, the development of the concept of queer of color critique, and the many usages of queer both theoretically and politically. Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin. Chandan Reddy (he/him) is associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org) Reddy, Chandan. Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. (https://www.dukeupress.edu/Freedom-with-Violence/) Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45.2 (2013): 336-339. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43302999) Ferguson, Roderick. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/aberrations-in-black)
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Jul 20, 202400:24:48Tap to summarizeIn this episode Karma Chávez talks with Harvard professor Durba Mitra, author of the "sexuality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Mitra discusses how ideas about sexuality shape modern society, the ubiquitousness of sexuality as a concept, sexuality and identity, and some of the problematic ways sexuality gets taken up to justify war. Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin. Durba Mitra (she/her) is Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. "Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org) Mitra, Durba, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691196350/indian-sex-life) Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1990."
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Jul 19, 202400:18:48Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Kyla Wazana Tompkins talks with Heather Berg, author of "sex work" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Berg emphasizes the importance of sex work in feminist discussions and the lessons it can teach us about power, the state, and care. Overall, the conversation highlights the intersection of gender, sexuality, sex work, disability studies and labor in academic and everyday contexts. Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Professor and Chair of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo. Heather Berg (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism and "Left of #MeToo" in Feminist Studies. keywords.nyupress.org
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Jul 18, 202400:27:27Tap to summarizeIn this episode, host Mishuana Goeman interviews Manu Karuka, an expert in settler colonialism, Imperialism, and Indigenous studies. They discuss the importance of settler colonialism in gender and sexuality studies and the relationship between settler colonialism, the African diaspora, and Indigenous Studies. They also explore the concept of imagining alternative histories and the role of feminism in understanding and challenging settler colonial structures. The conversation highlights the complexity of land and labor in settler colonialism and the need for collective action and relationships in decolonization efforts. Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College. Dr. Mishuana Goeman, daughter of enrolled Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Hawk Clan, is currently a Professor of Indigenous Studies at University of Buffalo (on leave from UCLA's Gender Studies and American Indian Studies) and President - elect of the American Studies Association. Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks (1952), (1967 translation by Charles Lam Markmann: New York: Grove Press) Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth (1961), (1963 translation by Constance Farrington: New York: Grove Weidenfeld) Karuka, Manu, Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective, The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective. Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. .
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Jul 15, 202400:24:19Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Mishuana Goeman talks with Dr. K. Sue Park, author of the "property" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Park talks about the legal uses of law and how the word has reverberations of colonialism and enslavement of black people into present day organizing around land use and housing. Mishuana Goeman (she/her), daughter of enrolled Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Hawk Clan, is Chair and Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at University at Buffalo. K. Sue Park (she/her) is a Professor of Law at UCLA. keywords.nyupress.org Mark My Words (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/mark-my-words) The History Wars and Property Law: Conquest and Slavery as Foundational to the Field. (https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-history-wars-and-property-law-conquest-and-slavery-as-foundational-to-the-field)
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Jul 15, 202400:21:22Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Professor Lisa Sun-Hee Park, author of the "migration" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Park discusses the challenging issues facing migrant communities, the way immigration history gets deployed in US society, and the urgent need for feminist and queer methodologies for understanding migration processes and migrant experiences. Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin. Lisa Sun-Hee Park (she/her) is Chair and Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org) Park, Lisa Sun-Hee, Entitled To Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform. New York: NYU Press, 2011. (https://nyupress.org/9780814768013/entitled-to-nothing/) Park, Lisa Sun-Hee and David Naguib Pellow, The Slums of Aspen Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden. New York: NYU Press, 2011. (https://nyupress.org/9780814768037/the-slums-of-aspen/")
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Jul 12, 202400:16:50Tap to summarizeIn this episode of Feminist Keywords, host Amber Musser interviews Jennifer Nash, the author of the keyword 'Intersectionality.' They discuss the definition and utility of intersectionality, its global travels, and the anxiety and contestation surrounding the term. They also explore the politics of intersectionality, its relationship to Black feminist scholarship, and its misinterpretation by the right. Nash emphasizes the importance of grounding intersectionality in a critical race tradition and reclaiming it as a tool for understanding power and fostering coalition. The conversation highlights the need to challenge dominant narratives and institutions in order to create more inclusive and hospitable spaces. Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014); Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Duke University Press, 2018), Birthing Black Mothers (Duke University Press, 2021), and How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory (forthcoming with Duke University Press in August 2024). Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (2024). Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics," University of Chicago Legal Forum University of Chicago Law Forum 1 (1989): 139-167. Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color," Stanford Law Review 43.6 (1991): 1241-1299. Anna Julia Cooper A Voice From the South (https://librivox.org/search?title=A+Voice+from+the+South&author=Cooper&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced) May, Vivian M. Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist. New York: Routledge, 2012: Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (editors: Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Amber Musser, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman and Kyla Wazana Tompkins). 2021 keywords.nyupress.org
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Jul 12, 202400:20:01Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Amber Jamilla Musser talks with Dr. Jane Ward, author of "heterosexuality" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Ward talks about her own interest in witches and racial justice as part of a decolonial practice to decenter whiteness, the importance of connecting the cultural attachment to heterosexuality with the gender binary, the way that the gender binary is racialized, the rise of the global right's persecution of trans and non-binary people, and the possibility for shifting out of this regime of oppressive gender politics. Amber Jamilla Musser (she/her) is professor of English at CUNY Graduate Center. Jane Ward (she/her) is professor of Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. Ward is the author of multiple books, including The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (2015) and Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations (2008). Ward, Jane. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (New York: NYU Press, 2020) D'Emilio, John. John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin (eds.) The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 1993), 467-476 Seresin, Indiana. "On Heteropessimism: Heterosexuality Is Nobody's Personal Problem," New Inquiry, October 9, 2019. (https://thenewinquiry.com.) Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (editors: Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Amber Musser, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman and Kyla Wazana Tompkins). 2021 (keywords.nyupress.org)
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Jul 12, 202400:16:49Tap to summarizeIn this episode , host Kyla Wazana Tompkins interviews Professor Scott L. Morgenson about the keyword 'heteronormativity.' They discuss the origins of the term in queer theory, its significance in gender and sexuality studies, and how it is intertwined with settler colonialism and white supremacy. Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Professor and Chair of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo. Scott L. Morgensen is associate professor in gender studies at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Feminist Editorial Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org)
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Jul 11, 202400:26:37Tap to summarizeIn this episode, host Aimee Bahng interviews Jenna Lloyd, author of the "health" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. They discuss how health is often used as a nonpartisan marker of political issues, such as the economy and the environment. They also delve into the concept of healthism, the profitable form of medicalization that emerged in the 1970s, and its collusion with capitalism.The conversation touches on the importance of health in feminist, abolitionist, queer, and trans thought and concludes with a discussion on collective care movements. Aimee Bahng is professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College. Jenna M. Loyd (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. keywords.nyupress.org
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