Feminist Keywords introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements.
Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism's political and intellectual debates—from the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frameworks arise out of queer, feminist and anti-racist engagements with matter and ecology as well as efforts to imagine forms of relationality beyond settler colonial and imperialist epistemologies
Reflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.
In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Chandan Reddy, author of the "queer" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr Reddy talks about his own history as a queer activist, the development of the concept of queer of color critique, and the many usages of queer both theoretically and politically.
Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.
Chandan Reddy (he/him) is associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. keywords.nyupress.org
Reddy, Chandan. Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Freedom-with-Violence/
Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45.2 (2013): 336-339. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43302999
Ferguson, Roderick. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/aberrations-in-black
20 Jul 2024
Sexuality
In this episode Karma Chávez talks with Harvard professor Durba Mitra, author of the "sexuality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Mitra discusses how ideas about sexuality shape modern society, the ubiquitousness of sexuality as a concept, sexuality and identity, and some of the problematic ways sexuality gets taken up to justify war.
Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.
Durba Mitra (she/her) is Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
"Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. keywords.nyupress.org
Mitra, Durba, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691196350/indian-sex-life
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1990."
19 Jul 2024
Sex Work
In this episode, Kyla Wazana Tompkins talks with Heather Berg, author of "sex work" entry of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Berg emphasizes the importance of sex work in feminist discussions and the lessons it can teach us about power, the state, and care. Overall, the conversation highlights the intersection of gender, sexuality, sex work, disability studies and labor in academic and everyday contexts.
Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Professor and Chair of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo.
Heather Berg (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism and “Left of #MeToo” in Feminist Studies.
keywords.nyupress.org
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