Italian Feminist Thought, a Reader

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Ann Hallamore Caesar ◽  
Paola Bono ◽  
Sandra Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Thought

Barbara Hammer's Jane Brakhage

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-94
Author(s):  
Jennifer Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Short Film ◽  
Nonfiction Film ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Stan Brakhage ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Creative Life

This essay analyzes Barbara Hammer's 1974 experimental nonfiction film Jane Brakhage. Both an homage and a rebuttal to the many films of Jane Brakhage made by her husband, Stan Brakhage, Hammer's film gives Jane the voice she never had in Stan's work. The article contextualizes Jane Brakhage's production at a moment when competing strands of feminist thought took different approaches to the fraught topic of nature. Hammer's films were criticized as essentialist by feminists in the 1980s, but this essay argues that Jane Brakhage complicates that reading of Hammer's work. The film documents Jane's creative life in the mountains, but critiques the limitations of her role as a heterosexual wife and mother. By locating this short film within a larger genealogy of feminist and environmental thought, we can better appreciate the extent to which Hammer's films explore the feminist and queer potential of nature.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caron E. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
Feminist Thought

This introduction contrasts the election of President Obama with the election of President Trump, introducing the concept of anxiety politics and the role of emotions in discourse. It argues that while Christian realism, as articulated by Reinhold Niebuhr, continues to be relevant, its discussion of power structures and anxiety needs to be reevaluated in light of feminist thought. It does so by intersecting Niebuhr with other theologies on the imago dei and creativity. In this way it can better account for the racial and misogynist structures that the United States is founded upon and that continue to haunt and effect US politics.

Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Coray
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Feminist Jurisprudence ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Feminist Theories

ABSTRACT This review analyzes the efficacy of the collection in engaging with international law through the lens of feminist jurisprudence. The editors have compiled a diverse collection that applies feminist thought to varying topics of international law, including economic topics that do not obviously lend themselves to feminist engagement, that demonstrates the benefits of such analysis. The handbook effectively illustrates the potential for feminist thought to apply broadly to international law topics and provides a path forward for continued engagement with feminist theories in international law.

Conceptus interruptus: Forestalling sureties about violence and feminism

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sisson Runyan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Over Time

AbstractForestalling sureties about what constitutes violence and feminism and the relationships between violence and feminism have been significant themes in the work of feminist International Relations theorist Marysia Zalewski. I follow how Zalewski, through her work and work with others including myself, interrupts well-trodden ‘trails’ of violence and feminism to open up thinking about both. I consider how her provocative work on violence and particularly feminist violence prefigures and advances cutting-edge critical thought on violence as represented in the ‘Histories of Violence’ project. What I call her ‘palimpsestic’ or multilayered and intertextual approach to violence reveals it as not only destructive, but also productive in terms of breaking with deadening conventions. I also consider her conceptualisation of feminist violence as both epistemic and militant over time in relation to some contemporary feminist insurgencies, the kinds of insurgencies that serve as her muses for breaking out of forms of ‘secured’ feminism and opening space for unbounded feminist thought. Consistent with her insistence that theory (and writing) should provide uncomfortable openings, not comforting foreclosures, I end not with a conclusion about her work, but rather echo her call to resist the kind of ‘knowing’ that suffocates critical thinking and (re)generative feminist thought.

Can feminist thought make economics more objective?

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Harding
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Thought

Survival of the cryptic: Tracing technological imaginaries across ideologies, infrastructures, and community practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482098301
Author(s):  
Sarah Myers West
Keyword(s):  
Inflection Point ◽  
Cascading Failures ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Collective Survival ◽  
Mass Surveillance ◽  
The Way

This article explores an inflection point for the crypto community as it grappled with a series of cascading failures. Drawing on 3 years of ethnographic observation and interviews at conferences devoted to building privacy systems, I consider how a determinist conception of encryption technologies inhibited the widespread adoption of privacy technologies. I develop the frame of “survival of the cryptic” to call attention to the way this conception fails to acknowledge how power shapes the conditions of surveillance: that race and racism, gender and misogyny affect not only who is most impacted by surveillance but also how the encryption technologies developed to inhibit surveillance were designed—and, as importantly, who they were designed for. I conclude by offering a new imaginary for encryption that draws on queer, black and feminist thought by centering the need to create safe and autonomous spaces for collective survival under conditions of mass surveillance.

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