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Review: Emilia Borowska: The Politics of Kathy Acker: Revolution and the Avant-Garde
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In recent years, the New York novelist, poet and post-punk-icon Kathy Acker and her writings have received increased interest and critical attention resulting in a considerable corpus of texts, informed by postmodern, poststructuralist and feminist discourses. Michael Hardin’s Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker (2004) and Carla Harryman’s and Avital Ronell’s Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (2006) have familiarized the reader with the complexity of Acker’s literary production. Polina Mackay’s and Kathryn Nicol’s study Kathy Acker and Transnationalism (2009) has proposed a more political and cross-national approach, while Georgina Colby’s Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible (2016) has examined Acker’s experimental use of language. Following the latter’s attempt to rethink Acker’s work outside of the territory of postmodern discourse, Emilia Borowska provides an innovative reading of Acker’s novels, which successfully tackles Acker’s radical politics and revolutionary objectives
Review: Dozier, Raine. “’You Look Like a Dude, Dude’: Masculine Females Undoing Gender in the Workplace”. In Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 66, Issue 9, 2019, pp. 1219-1237.
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Raine Dozier’s essay “You Look Like a Dude, Dude’: Masculine Females Undoing Gender in the Workplace’” (2019) examines liminal categories of gender expression and embodiment like masculine females and their capability of ‘undoing gender’ in the workplace. This may be carried out due to their potential to reveal and interrogate naturalized accounts of men and women in theoretical discussions of gender. The process of “doing gender” perpetuates and naturalizes hegemonic masculinities (Dozier 1219). It creates gender binaries which lead to a conflation of gender performativity, biological sex and sexual orientation. It suggests that subordinate masculinities are ontologically a male domain and pariah femininities a female domain for people embodying gender nonconformity. It also does not account for liminal categories of gender expression that otherwise fall on the gender spectrum
Review: The Reification of Desire by Kevin Floyd
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Kevin Floyd begins The Reification of Desire at an impasse between Marxist and queer theory on a snowy night in New England when he missed Judith Butler’s appearance at a Rethinking Marxism conference. From there Floyd attempts a reconciliation between Marxism and queer theory via historicizing arguments that scrutinize social, economic, and political practices and norms in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Floyd’s path “toward a queer Marxism” traces economic and sexual regulation over the last one hundred years in the United States. The path is marked by vivid examples and theoretical complexity—for example, a fishing scene from The Sun Also Rises appears as an intersection of failed masculinity and deskilled labor, and gay pictorials from the 1950s and 1960s serve as evidence for an unregulated, covert economy of desire. Floyd’s combination of textual analysis with philosophical reflection promises to make the book a new classic in queer studies
“My Stand”: Queer Identities in the Poetry of Anna Seward and Thomas Gray
No full textWhen we talk of love in our culture, we usually mean sex. When we talk of desire, we usually mean sex. If we are to fall in love with someone we desire, if we wish to dedicate our lives to someone, live with them, share a bed with them – then we better be having sex with them as well. It is one of the fundamental norms of our society that love is intrinsically bound to sexuality. Here we will examine two eighteenth-century poets. Anna Seward and Thomas Gray each fell in love and each wrote poetry about their love. The love each of them writes about, however, is nonsexual: it is even anti-sexual. Anna Seward and Thomas Gray wrote about romantic friendship. Both poets strongly believed in same-sex friendship and opposed opposite-sex marriage, a queer desire for which each was willing to sacrifice their well-being and reputation
Feminism from a new perspective: the single girl and bachelor phenomena
No full textIn this article we argue that the phenomenon of the single girls can be seen as feminist. The factor of consumption is an important link to other feminist movements, further we try to involve the Playboy magazine as a part of the sexual revolution. Hugh Hefner and the single girls claimed the right to enjoy their sexuality further they struggled against patriarchal society. In this paper we will show that against different feminist positions, the Playboy magazine in the early 50s initiated the creation of the so-called new bachelor who can be seen as the counterpart of the so-called single girl. Besides, the article links the American bachelor and single girls to the solitary women in Germany. All of them were searching for strategies to disengage themselves from the patriarchal construction of society
Gender stereotypes and social normativity: Insights from the Great Chain of Being metaphor in proverbs
No full textRecent studies (e.g., Caldas-Coulthard 2020) have shown that while feminist linguistic activities have been successful to some extent in mitigating gender discrimination in language, the successes achieved have been mainly at the lexical level whereas discursive practices that indicate underlying sexist beliefs continue to endure in most societies around the globe. Proverbs are an instance of discursive practices which, as the result of a sexist society, perpetuate harmful gender beliefs. Within the Spanish context, quite a number of them reflect gender-related stereotypes and ideologies which were common not only in Spain, but also in many parts of medieval Europe (Garrido 2001; Crida Álvarez 2001). This paper seeks to examine how Spanish proverbs preserve gender stereotypes and influence social normativity using Lakoff and Turner’s (1989) Great Chain Metaphor Theory, Glick and Fiske’s (1997) Ambivalent Sexism Theory, and principles of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as proposed by Lazar (2005). Particular attention is paid to how ideals of masculinities and femininities are perpetuated through language use. The findings reveal that proverbs and other types of popular literature remain significant sources for gender ideologies and can serve as channels for institutionalizing sexism
Schreiben in digitalen Medien: die Textsorte Blog im Lehramtsstudium. Eine explorative Fallstudie zur digitalen Schreibkompetenz von Studierenden im Lehramt für das Fach Deutsch
Get PDFIn der vorliegenden explorativen Fallstudie wird die digitale Schreibkompetenz von Lehramtsstudierenden am Beispiel der Textsorte Blog untersucht. Im Fokus stehen dabei Kommunikationsprinzipien, die ein zentrales Element von Textmusterwissen sind und ein wichtiges Bindeglied zwischen dem situativ-pragmatischen und dem strukturell-sprachlich-multimodalen Profil einer Textsorte darstellen. Überraschende Ergebnisse sind, dass Lehramtsstudierende deutlich durch ihre Schreiberfahrungen in der Schule geprägt sind und dass sie eher ‚konservativen’ Kommunikationsprinzipien verhaftet bleiben. Beides eröffnet vielversprechende Ansatzpunkte zur Förderung von Lehrer:innenprofessionalität im Fach Deutsch und letztlich zur Steigerung von Unterrichtsqualität. Im Folgenden stecken die ersten drei Kapitel den theoretischen Rahmen der Fallstudie ab, während in Kapitel 5, 6, und 7 das Design und die Ergebnisse dargestellt und letztere abschließend in Kapitel 8 diskutiert werden.
Abstract (english): Writing in digital media: The genre blog in teaching sutdies. An explorative case study on the digital writing skills of student teachers
The present case study explores the digital writing skills of student teachers by the example of the genre blog. The focus is on communicative principles. They are a crucial element of knowledge about text patterns, and they link the communicative profile of a genre to its semiotic structure. Surprising results are that student tea-chers are heavily influenced by their own school experiences and that they stick to quite conservative communicative principles. Both provide promising starting points to improve teacher professionalization and ultimately the quality of teaching. The first three chapters outline the theoretical frame of the case study. The design and the results are presented and discussed in chapter 5, 6, 7 and 8