The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey’s Clock

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
Sarah Winter
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Thing Theory ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
Sentimental Fiction ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Popular Novel

Charting the publication history of Dickens’s weekly periodical Master Humphrey’s Clock (April 1840 to December 1841), this chapter focuses on the enormously popular novel The Old Curiosity Shop, which appeared within the Clock’s framing narrative as an extended tale told by Master Humphrey to his reading circle. Setting aside its reputation as an outmoded sentimental fiction, the chapter shows that Shop drew the attention of two prominent twentieth-century critics, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, who viewed Dickens’s novel as an illuminating allegory of modern capitalist culture. Exploring the rich critical response to Shop and its illustrations, the chapter opens up new avenues for interpreting the novel’s ‘mysterious’ depiction of modernity, including: the multiple meanings of curiosity; the history of capitalism; legal satire; allegorical readings; Victorian thing theory; the novel’s relationship to didactic genres and children’s literature; disability studies; gender and sexuality studies and queer theory; and comparative studies.

Queer Theory and Heteronormativity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Page Valentine Regan ◽  
Elizabeth J. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Pedagogy

The concepts of queer theory and heteronormativity have been taken up in educational research due to the influence of disciplines including gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Queer theory seeks to disrupt dominant and normalizing binaries that structure our understandings of gender and sexuality. Heteronormativity describes the belief that heterosexuality is and should be the preferred system of sexuality and informs the related male or female, binary understanding of gender identity and expression. Taken together, queer theory and heteronormativity offer frames to interrogate and challenge systems of sex and gender in educational institutions and research to better support and understand the experiences of LGBTQ youth. They also inform the development of queer pedagogy that includes classroom and instructional practices designed to expand and affirm gender and sexual diversity in schools.

scholarly journals Philosophical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 80-98
Author(s):  
Renée Spencer ◽  
Julia M. Pryce ◽  
Jill Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Distinguishing Features

This chapter reviews some of the major overarching philosophical approaches to qualitative inquiry and includes some historical background for each. Taking a “big picture” view, the chapter discusses post-positivism, constructivism, critical theory, feminism, and queer theory and offers a brief history of these approaches; considers the ontological, epistemological, and axiological assumptions on which they rest; and details some of their distinguishing features. In the last section, attention is turned to the future, identifying three overarching, interrelated, and contested issues with which the field is being confronted and will be compelled to address as it moves forward: retaining the rich diversity that has defined the field, the articulation of recognizable standards for qualitative research, and the commensurability of differing approaches.

scholarly journals Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity

2020 ◽  
pp. 026327642096740
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Seely
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Feminist And Queer Theory

Within the context of questions raised by gender and sexuality studies about the relationship between sex and technics, I develop a theory of sexuation derived from Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation. First, I provide an overview of Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, from the physical to the collective. In the second section, I turn to the question of sexuality, outlining an ontogenetic account in which sexuation is conceived as a process of both individuation and relation that is fundamental to certain living beings. Then, drawing on Simondon’s theorization of technics in its mediating function between humans and the world, I resituate understandings of the relation between sex and technics. While each section – Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity – argues for the significance of these concepts to feminist and queer theory, overall the essay uses Simondon’s work as a new paradigm for gender and sexuality studies and calls for the invention of a sexuate culture.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Latina/o Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-174
Author(s):  
Alicia Arrizón
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Century ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Methodological Considerations

This article begins delving into the intersectionality of the conceptual knowledge embedded in the terms “women,” “gender,” and “sexuality.” The evolution of these three concepts has transformed the field of women, gender, and sexuality studies. While drawing on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to center on women’s issues, the field examines constructs of gender power relations, systems of oppression, and privilege. Students and scholars in the field examine these concepts as they intersect with other identities and social sites such as race, sexual orientation, inequality, class, and disability. The article begins with a general examination of the epistemological inquires considered in the title. It then traces the interdisciplinarity of women’s studies and feminist theory while contextualizing Latina feminism within Third World feminisms as conceptualized in the twentieth century. The article also argues that in Latina/o culture, the epistemology of these terms is reinforced by the power of heterosexuality, patriarchy, and the ramifications of colonial history. In this framework, the article examines the dichotomy of marianismo and machismo as markers of the legacy of colonialism. In what contexts this legacy influences Latina feminist discourses and views in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? What type of genealogies have been fundamental in tracing the colonial history of Latina/American feminism across borders? What kinds of methodological considerations for studying sexuality, and non-conforming gendering processes in Latina/o/Latinx culture in the twenty-first century are currently relevant? Are Latinas becoming more visible and influential in the twenty-first century? These inquiries are considered important for engaging with contemporary issues in Latino/a studies.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
History Of

This chapter sets out the context and rationale for the book, arguing that the study of capitalism needs to engage more closely with the study of sexuality, and vice versa. In order to advance this agenda, the chapter calls for international political economy and queer theory to combine their contributions through development of the field of queer political economy. The author then outlines the book’s key methodological moves and, in particular, its focus on sex work together with its genealogical approach to discourse analysis. As well as describing and justifying what the book is and does, the chapter also reflects on the book’s limitations, including the choice to consider the specific case of Britain rather than offering a general history of capitalism.

scholarly journals Introduction to the JAS at AAS Roundtable on “Sexuality and the State in Asia”

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 919-927
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Remick
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Current State ◽  
Social Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asking Questions

Attendees of the 2012 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Toronto were treated to two extraordinary speeches at the presidential address and awards ceremony. First, Charlotte Furth's acceptance of the AAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies was a primer in the history of China-related gender studies (Furth 2012). Then, as Rachel Leow discusses in her paper in this forum, outgoing AAS President Gail Hershatter followed up with an inspirational critique (reprinted in this issue) of the current state of gender and sexuality studies in China. Taken together, these two speeches showed how far gender and sexuality studies in Asia have come in the last forty years, but also suggested that it is time for some fresh approaches. For example, Furth explained that when the Cambridge History of China volumes on Republican China were commissioned, she and others argued strenuously for the inclusion of a chapter on gender; but in the end, one could not be written because no one had yet done the scholarship on which such a chapter could be based. Fortunately, all of this has changed: the scholarship is there now. But Hershatter quite rightly pointed out that it is time to rethink many of the categories of analysis we have been using, because they are preventing us from asking questions we should be asking, and therefore making us miss the meanings of crucial social events and phenomena.

scholarly journals Philosophical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-142
Author(s):  
Renée Spencer ◽  
Julia M. Pryce ◽  
Jill Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Distinguishing Features

This chapter reviews some of the major overarching philosophical approaches to qualitative inquiry and includes some historical background for each approach. Taking a “big picture” view, the chapter discusses postpositivism, constructivism, critical theory, feminism, and queer theory and offers a brief history of these approaches; considers the ontological, epistemological, and axiological assumptions on which they rest; and details some of their distinguishing features. In the last section, attention is turned to the future, identifying three overarching, interrelated, and contested issues with which the field is being confronted and will be compelled to address as it moves forward: retaining the rich diversity that has defined the field, the articulation of recognizable standards for qualitative research, and the commensurability of differing approaches.

LGBT Politics in South Asia

2019 ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Ahmad Qais Munhazim
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Public Space ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Lgbt Politics ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich History

LGBT politics in South Asia is rooted in both the history of colonialism and what the author of this chapter calls the “underground movement” of the LGBT South Asian communities themselves. Offering a critique of coming out, the chapter argues that South Asian states carry the burden of colonial violence to this day. Therefore, embracing Western coming out culture for these states is antithetical to the process of decolonization. This chapter moves from a state-centric understanding of LGBT politics to an everyday people–focused conceptualization and practices of LGBT politics and movements that cross geographical, cultural, religious, and political boundaries in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Employing a feminist autoethnographic approach, the chapter argues that public space performances of hijras on the streets, trains, buses, and homes in South Asia are the most authentic, indigenous, decolonial, and antipatriarchal drives in creating space for LGBT communities in the region. This movement troubles gendered and heteronormative public spaces while also claiming the rich history and diversity of gender and sexuality in South Asia.

scholarly journals BAER, Brian James and KAINDL, Klaus. Queering Translation, Translating the Queer. Theory, Practice, Activism. New York & London, Routledge, 2018, 234 pp., ISBN: 9780367365677

Hikma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Iturregui Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Shed Light

This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fifteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors’ introduction to the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation; Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators; and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to not only shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross fertilization between these disciplines towards further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, and activism, and gender and sexuality studies.

Capitalism's Sexual History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Sexual History ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sexual Labor

What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The book interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields that have often overlooked each other, international political economy and queer theory. It develops a queer political economy lens to understand how the history of capitalism has been intimately entangled with the history of sexuality. Yet central to this story has been the construction of sexuality as something that needs to be protected from capitalism’s adulterating influence at all costs. As the author examines, this is no accident since capitalism profits greatly from the illusion that economic and sexual relations exist in distinct realms that can and must be kept apart. Focusing on the specific site of sex work in Britain, the volume draws on wide-ranging archival research to chart a genealogy of capitalist development from the Middle Ages to the present day. It shows that capitalism has long been organized around the extraction of unpaid sexual labor that, in turn, has been made possible by the creation and maintenance of a dualism between sex and work. By exposing the historical mechanisms through which the economy/sexuality dichotomy has been constituted, the book opens up new space for critical inquiry into the intersections between sex, work, and economic and sexual injustice.

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