INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FEMINIST ACADEMY

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Notes

1. We should not overlook the fact, however, that especially in Europe (with the exception of the United Kingdom), gender mainstreaming provides jobs and working opportunities for thousands of young women graduates in social research and social action programmes. See, for example, the Daphne Programme at ec.europa.eu/justice_home/funding/2004_2007/daphne/funding-daphne_en.htm/ It would be an interesting research study in itself to survey this field of working in gender issues as a form of professional feminist practice.

2. We also need to ask the question: who today makes films like this? There is an absence of equivalents to the work of directors like Ottinger, and avant-garde adventurous lesbian filmmaking is almost a thing of the past. Too easily forgotten, this body of work itself has to be retrieved from the ‘queer archive’ (Halberstam 2005).

3. I am referring to Masters’ courses at Goldsmiths College; in particular, MA Media and Communications; Transnational Media; Gender and Culture; Cultural Studies; Political Communications and Culture Industries.

4. For a rich discussion of Western feminism as pedagogy in the context of East European university systems, see Cerwonka (2008).