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Volume 22, 2017 - Issue 1: women writing across cultures present, past, future
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Editorial Introduction

WOMEN WRITING ACROSS CULTURES

present, past, future

 

Notes

I am grateful to Gerard Greenway and James Hypher for their generous editorial support of this volume.

1 Judith Butler, “Critically Queer,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies 1 (1993): 17–32.

2 Toril Moi, “‘I am not a woman writer’: About Women, Literature and Feminist Theory Today,” Eurozine (2009): 1–8, available <http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-12-moi-en.html> (accessed 10 Sept. 2015). See also Moi, “What is a Woman?” in Moi, What is a Woman? And Other Essays (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999) 3–120.

3 Wendy Brown, “The Impossibility of Women’s Studies” in Women's Studies on the Edge, ed. Joan Wallach Scott (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2008) 30.

4 Robyn Wiegman, “The Possibility of Women’s Studies” in Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, eds. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers UP, 2005) 42, 54.

5 Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections” in Women's Studies on the Edge 70–71.

6 Ibid. 77.

7 Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” boundary 2 12.3/13.1 (1984): 333–58.

8 Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (Cambridge: Polity, 2013).

9 Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Emeryville, CA: Seal, 2007).

10 Published by Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press respectively.

11 Published by Palgrave Macmillan.

12 Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2007); and Interview with Karen Barad in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies, eds. Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities, 2012), available <http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/256718> (accessed 17 Aug. 2016). Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman; and Interview with Rosi Braidotti in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies. Claire Colebrook, Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction vol. 1 (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities, 2015); and Colebrook, Sex After Life: Essays on Extinction vol. 2 (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities, 2015). Elizabeth Grosz, Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (New York: Columbia UP, 2008); Grosz, Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011); Grosz, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism (New York: Columbia UP, 2017). Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2003); Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2016). Dorothea Olkowski, The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy (New York: Columbia UP, 2007).

13 Rosi Braidotti, “In Spite of the Times: The Postsecular Turn in Feminism,” Theory, Culture & Society 25.6 (2008): 1–24.

14 Saba Mahmood, “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival,” Cultural Anthropology 16.2 (2001): 202–36.

15 See, for example, Selma Leydesdorff, Luisa Passerini, and Paul Thompson, eds., Gender & Memory (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009).

16 Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006). Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2004). Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York: New York UP, 2005); and Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011). Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2010).

17 Doreen Massey, “Ideology and Economics in the Present Moment” in The Neoliberal Crisis, eds. Sally Davison and Katharine Harris (London: Lawrence, 2015) 102–12.

18 See, for example, Ellen Lewin, ed., Feminist Anthropology: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).

19 Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (San Diego: Harcourt, 1983).

20 Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” in The Black Feminist Reader, eds. Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000) 46ff.

21 See Claire Williams n. 7.

22 On “failure,” see Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure. Woolf seems to be anticipating and approaching Muñoz's concept of “(dis)identification.” José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1999).

23 I was sole convenor in 2011–12; my co-convenors were Dr Stephanie Clare and Prof. Tim Whitmarsh in 2012–13, Prof. Ros Ballaster and Prof. Cláudia Pazos-Alonso in 2013–16, and Prof. Ros Ballaster in 2016–17. Since 2015–16 the students of the Oxford M.St. in Women's Studies have also been actively involved. The seminar has been funded by the Faculties of English Language and Literature, Classics, and Medieval & Modern Languages since 2011 and Philosophy since 2014.

24 I was Co-ordinator – with Prof. Ros Ballaster, Prof. Cláudia Pazos-Alonso and Prof. Tim Whitmarsh – of this 2013–14 research programme. We organized nine seminars and three workshops in 2013–14.

25 My conference co-organizers were Prof. Ros Ballaster and Prof. Cláudia Pazos-Alonso. We were helped by Sarah Gabriel, Kathleen Lawton-Trask, Clare Morgan, Emily Spiers and Eve Worth. The conference was funded by TORCH.

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