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Recognizing the full spectrum of gender? Transgender, intersex and the futures of feminist theology
No full textThe recognition that female embodiment and feminine experience are legitimate and specific sites of the revelation of God's love has been one of the most significant developments in theology in the last hundred years. However, an over-emphasis on feminine experience as supervening on female embodiment risks erasing unusual sex-gender body-stories and perpetuating the idea that only some bodies can mediate the divine. Feminist Theology's future must involve a re-examination and re-negotiation of what it is to be feminist theologians without fixed gender essences. Does Feminist Theology have space to hear from and nurture the voices of those whose gender experiences (especially as transgender, 'third' or otherwise) challenge a binary, either-or model? Can Feminist Theology, in contrast to much secular feminist theory, give space at the table to those whose sex-gender life stories undermine the notion that there is such a thing as a common or biologically-contingent feminine experience in the first place? © The Author(s) 2012
Queering the Pilling Report: Church of England Reports and the 'Queer Art of Failure'
No full textPilling – The Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality, published in November 2013, initiated a process within the institutional Church of England of discussions and reflections on the issue of (homo)sexuality. This thesis will que(e)ry the contents and methodology of this report, set in the context of earlier church reports on sexuality, analysing the hermeneutical lenses through which Pilling chose to examine homosexuality and its place in church polity. After critically reflecting on the report itself, the thesis will turn to the processes which it launched: official and unofficial conversations about gay identity and gay relationships. Both the report and these processes will be interrogated for their constructions of authority and for their, perhaps unacknowledged, construals of power and privilege in which white, educated, cisheterosexual norms remain unmarked and ‘other’ identities are (albeit implicitly) positioned as abject. Pilling – both report and process – claims that it is not searching for a consensus or a resolution in the sexuality debate, yet its apparent reliance on the neoliberal narrative of progress and productivity denies the possibility of failure. The thesis suggests that one kind of resolution might be through, what Halberstam has termed, the ‘queer art of failure’, a turning away from the hegemonic epistemologies of church reports and institutionally sanctioned debate, towards an undoing of theological privilege and hierarchical constructions of authority. The queer art of failure recognises that failure is part of the human condition and for Christians an inherent part of our fallen nature. Failure may be faithfulness to an apophatic tradition, inhabiting the unknowingness of Holy Saturday and the queer temporality of living in the ‘not yet’
'No longer male and female' : the challenge of intersex conditions for theology
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Stranger in our Midst::The Becoming of the Queer God in the Theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid
Get PDFThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the link in this record.Book description: Marcella Althaus-Reid was one of the most fascinating and controversial theologians of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Her strong personality and her iconoclastic work inspired a whole generation of theologians in the UK and worldwide. Marcella's creative life was cut short by her death from cancer in 2009. Yet she lives on, not least in those who have been inspired by her work and continue to engage with it. "Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots" draws together a number of world-class scholars and others who engage with the main themes of Marcella's work and show how the critical and controversial conversations which Marcella has begun can and do continue. It is therefore far more than a Festschrift, but a celebration of an intellectual life Marcella-style
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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