AntiFeminism and Family Terrorism: A Critical Feminist Perspective. By Rhonda  Hammer. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. Pp. xi+237. $70.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

2002 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-514
Author(s):  
Lisa D. Brush
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Critical Feminist

scholarly journals Queering potentials: Negotiations of gender, parenthood, and family in polyamorous relationships in the Netherlands

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110374
Author(s):  
Rahil Roodsaz
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Critical Feminist

Using a critical feminist perspective, this article provides an ethnographic account of negotiations of gender relations, parenthood, and family in polyamorous relationships in the Netherlands. A conceptual framework is developed and employed to analyze the queering potentials of polyamory by looking at (1) a difference-oriented self, (2) expansion of political community, (3) deconstructions of gender, (4) enduring and unexpected care, and (5) an awareness of existence with people we do not know. Based on a thick description of everyday negotiations, it is argued that the categories of “gender,” “parent,” and “family” are mainly stretched and diffused rather than fundamentally disrupted.

Some humans are more Human than Others: Troubling the ‘human’ in human security from a critical feminist perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Marhia
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
Humanist Tradition ◽  
Critical Feminist

This article develops critical feminist engagement with human security by interrogating the taken-for-granted category of the ‘human’ therein. Failure to reflectively deconstruct this category has contributed to human security’s reproduction of dominant norms and the emptiness of its apparent radical promise. The article shows how the ‘human’ has historically been constructed as an exclusionary – and fundamentally gendered – category, and examines its construction in human security discourse and the capabilities approach in which the latter is rooted, as well as its discursive effects. The article troubles the model of the autonomous, rational human subject who is the bearer of capabilities, which human security inherits from the liberal humanist tradition of thought, and which obscures the matrices of power through which individuals become socially differentiated. It then considers the implication of human security in demarcating differences as ‘morally relevant’, including its instrumentalization in the ‘war on terror’.

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