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Feminist Theory
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August 1, 2025
This article aims to show how the dominant figures for imagining feminist generations—sisterhood, and its ‘parent,’ the mother–daughter relationship—limit feminism to the white heterosexual family and the exclusionary violence wielded in its name. While th ...
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Psychoanalysis Culture and Society
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March 1, 2022
This article examines Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 avant-garde essay film Riddles of the Sphinx as a cinematic text that makes the museum a site for imagining psychoanalytic feminism as a reparative reading practice. I argue that the film questions ...
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Australian Feminist Studies
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October 2, 2018
In this article I focus on the portrayal of fashionable clothing in the 1975 film Mahogany and connect it to the history of African American women engaging with sartorial self-representation as a means to assert their visibility in American culture. My aim ...
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Critical Arts
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May 4, 2017
This article analyses Nick Cave’s “soundsuits”—striking for their elaborately ornamented forms and vibrant colours—as queer reframings of black masculinity. Drawing on scholarship in African American studies that examines the production of black masculinit ...
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Critical Arts
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December 4, 2015
In this article I analyse the photographs Gordon Parks produced for the Life photo-essay The restraints: open and hidden, which depicts Jim Crow segregation in Mobile, Alabama. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's (1996) attention to the archival unconscious and H ...
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Women and Performance
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May 4, 2015
This introductory essay provides an overview of the arguments and premises of this special issue, Texting Girls: Images, Sounds, and Words in Neoliberal Cultures of Femininity. Situated within the recent historical conjuncture in which "girls" (and all tha ...
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Feminist Theory
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January 1, 2014
Joan Scott's 'fantasy echo' is deployed to analyse the trope of the mother/daughter relationship in contemporary laments about feminism's failures, exemplified by Susan Faludi's 'American Electra: Feminism's Ritual Matricide' (2010). I demonstrate that Fal ...
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Jacket 2
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July 2011
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The Henry James Review
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2011
This essay brings Leo Bersani’s theorization of aesthetic subjectivity to bear on Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1908) and its portrayal of Isabel Archer’s concept and embodiment of “independence.” Drawing upon a psychoanalytic understanding of sexu ...
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Virginia Woolf Miscellany
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2009
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International Studies in Philosophy
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December 1, 2002
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