Works by Clare Hemmings
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- Why stories matter: the political grammar of feminist theory.Clare Hemmings -2011 - Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Progress -- Loss -- Return -- Amenability -- Citation tactics -- Affective subjects.
- Affective solidarity: Feminist reflexivity and political transformation.Clare Hemmings -2012 -Feminist Theory 13 (2):147-161.This article seeks to intervene in what I perceive to be a problematic opposition in feminist theory between ontological and epistemological accounts of existence and politics, by proposing an approach that weaves together Elspeth Probyn’s conceptualisation of ‘feminist reflexivity’ with a re-reading of feminist standpoint through affect. In so doing, I develop the concept of affective solidarity as necessary for sustainable feminist politics of transformation. This approach is proposed as a way of moving away from rooting feminist transformation in the (...) politics of identity and towards modes of engagement that start from the affective dissonance experience can produce. Moving beyond empathy as a privileged way of connecting with others, I argue that the difference between ‘womanhood’ and ‘feminism’ is critical for a universal yet non-essential understanding of what motivates gendered change. (shrink)No categories
- Telling feminist stories.Clare Hemmings -2005 -Feminist Theory 6 (2):115-139.This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the development of feminist thought as a relentless march of progress or loss. This dominant approach oversimplifies the complex history (...) of Western feminisms, fixes writers and perspectives within a particular decade, and repeatedly (and erroneously) positions poststructuralist feminists as ‘the first’ to challenge the category ‘woman’ as the subject and object of feminist knowledge. Rather than provide a corrective history of Western feminist theory, the article interrogates the techniques through which this dominant story is secured, despite the fact that we (feminist theorists) know better. My focus, therefore, is on citation patterns, discursive framings and some of their textual, theoretical and political effects. As an alternative, I suggest a realignment of key theorists purported to provide a critical break in feminist theory with their feminist citational traces, to force a concomitant re-imagining of our historical legacy and our place within it. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive.Clare Hemmings -2017 - Duke University Press.In _Considering Emma Goldman_ Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces them, finding them to be helpful in formulating a new queer feminist praxis. Mining three overlapping archives—Goldman's own writings, her historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in those archives —Hemmings shows how (...) serious engagement with Goldman's political ambivalences opens up larger questions surrounding feminist historiography, affect, fantasy, and knowledge production. Moreover, she explores her personal affinity for Goldman to illuminate the role that affective investment plays in shaping feminist storytelling. By considering Goldman in all her contradictions and complexity, Hemmings presents a queer feminist response to the ambivalences that also saturate contemporary queer feminist race theories. (shrink)No categories
- Open forum: Collective powers: Rupture and displacement in feminist pedagogic practice.Clare Hemmings -2011 -European Journal of Women's Studies 18 (3):297-303.No categories
- Lesbian ghosts feminism: an introduction.Clare Hemmings &Ilana Eloit -2019 -Feminist Theory 20 (4):351-360.No categories
- What is a feminist theorist responsible for? Response to Rachel Torr.Clare Hemmings -2007 -Feminist Theory 8 (1):69-76.No categories
- Ready for Bologna? The Impact of the Declaration on Women’s and Gender Studies in the UK.Clare Hemmings -2006 -European Journal of Women's Studies 13 (4):315-323.This article explores the likely impact that the Bologna Declaration will have on the field of women’s and gender studies in the UK. While the UK higher education sector as a whole has been slow to take up the opportunities and challenges presented by Bologna, this article argues that women’s and gender studies may gain particularly from a European reorientation. Women’s and gender studies currently has to struggle for both national resources and recognition, and so has little to lose and (...) much to gain from actively engaging in the process of Europeanization of degrees. The author advocates for UK women’s and gender studies practitioners to take a leading role in this process, in order to facilitate the potential benefits for the field. (shrink)No categories
- The materials of reparation.Clare Hemmings -2014 -Feminist Theory 15 (1):27-30.No categories
- Sexual Moralities.Lucy Bland,Irene Gedalof &Clare Hemmings -2006 -Feminist Review 83 (1):1-3.No categories
- The SAGE handbook of feminist theory.Mary Evans,Clare Hemmings,Marsha Henry,Hazel Johnstone,Sumi Madhok,Ania Plomien &Sadie Wearing (eds.) -2014 - Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE reference.At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory. The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, covering: epistemology and marginality; literary, visual and cultural representations; sexuality; macro and microeconomics of gender; conflict (...) and peace. The most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think 'theoretically' is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding. With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism."--Publisher description. (shrink)
- Considering Emma.Clare Hemmings -2013 -European Journal of Women's Studies 20 (4):334-346.This article considers the importance of the anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman for contemporary feminist theory and politics. Initially concerned with how Goldman’s views on power and change help us reconsider our own history and present, the author shifts gears in the course of the article to think aspects of her thought that are less easily reclaimed. Exploring her own and others’ desire for Goldman to resolve current difficulties within and beyond feminism, the author highlights the problems this desire (...) presents for both our understanding of the past, and our ability adequately to engage the present. Focusing instead on the importance of fantasy in our accounting for the relationship between past and present, the author explores our desires to consign judgement and essence to another era. (shrink)No categories
- Food Violence.Clare Hemmings -2016 -Feminist Review 114 (1):5-5.No categories
- pt. 3. Sexuality.Clare Hemmings -2014 - In Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Sumi Madhok, Ania Plomien & Sadie Wearing,The SAGE handbook of feminist theory. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE reference.Export citation
Bookmark - Re-Imagining Revolutions.Clare Hemmings,Carrie Hamilton &Rutvica Andrijasevic -2014 -Feminist Review 106 (1):1-8.No categories
- Sexual Freedom and the Promise of Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion.Clare Hemmings -2014 -Feminist Review 106 (1):43-59.This article explores the contributions to a history of sexuality, capitalism and revolution made when we consider the work of anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869–1940). I suggest that Goldman's centring of sexual freedom at the heart of revolutionary vision and practice is part of a long tradition of sexual politics, one which struggles to make sense of how productive and reproductive labour come together, and to identify the difference between sexual freedom and capitalist opportunity. Goldman's concern with the (...) significance of kinship in holding together capitalism, militarism and religion, as well as sexual feeling's capacity to disrupt those relationships, echoes across more than a century to resonate with Marxist, feminist and queer scholars’ engagements with similar issues. But where contemporary scholars often tend to retain the opposition between culture and society, representation and the real, making it difficult to produce a materialist analysis of sexuality as transformative rather than always already overdetermined, Goldman's energetic insistence on sexual connectivity as freeing provides an important vantage point. Not only does Goldman consistently situate sexuality in a broad political context of the sexual division of labour, the institutions of marriage and the church, consumerism, patriotism and productive (as well as reproductive) labour, she frames sexual freedom as both the basis of new relationships between men and women, and as a model for a new political future. (shrink)No categories
- Sexuality, subjectivity... and political economy?Clare Hemmings -2014 - In Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Sumi Madhok, Ania Plomien & Sadie Wearing,The SAGE handbook of feminist theory. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE reference.Export citation Bookmark
- Transforming Academies, Global Genealogies.Clare Hemmings -2010 -Feminist Review 95 (1):1-4.No categories
- Tuning Problems?: Notes on Women's and Gender Studies and the Bologna Process.Clare Hemmings -2008 -European Journal of Women's Studies 15 (2):117-127.No categories
- Teaching Travelling Concepts in Europe.Clare Hemmings &Eva D. Bahovec -2004 -Feminist Theory 5 (3):333-342.No categories
- ‘Where might we go if we dare’: moving beyond the ‘thick, suffocating fog of whiteness’ in feminism.Clare Hemmings &Gail Lewis -2019 -Feminist Theory 20 (4):405-421.This article explores the multi-pronged relation between individual and collective haunting and political investments in divergent feminist and queer formations. Taking the form of an interview conversation, it traces the trajectories of a political life in sites ranging from the kitchen and the demonstration to the conference and the writing page, and on the way marking the possibilities and limitations of various political-intellectual traditions linked to social justice and freedom in pursuit of being and becoming otherwise. It foregrounds a refusal (...) to accept the terms set by dominant political framings alongside and through a commitment to intersubjectivity and exploration of creative possibility opened up in spaces of excess. (shrink)No categories
- ‘I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’: An interview with Clare Hemmings.Susan Rudy &Clare Hemmings -2019 -European Journal of Women's Studies 26 (2):211-222.No categories
- Femininity revisited – A round table.Shirley-Anne Tate,Clare Hemmings,Gayatri Gopinath,Laura Martínez-Jiménez,Lina Gálvez-Muñoz,Jenny Sundén,Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy &Ulrika Dahl -2018 -European Journal of Women's Studies 25 (3):384-393.No categories
- Open Space: Feminism in Transnational Times, a Conversation with Christine Delphy: An Edited Transcription of Christine Delphy and Sylvie Tissot's Public Talk at the LSE.Sylvie Tissot,Clare Hemmings,Liana Eloit &Christine Delphy -2017 -Feminist Review 117 (1):148-162.No categories
- Everyday Struggling.Amal Treacher &Clare Hemmings -2006 -Feminist Review 82 (1):1-5.No categories
- Food.Sadie Wearing,Nadje Al-Ali &Clare Hemmings -2016 -Feminist Review 114 (1):1-1.No categories
- Book Review: Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question. [REVIEW]Clare Hemmings -2017 -Feminist Review 117 (1):204-205.No categories
- A review of Feminist Review’s 100th issue: Celebrating 100 issues of collective practice. [REVIEW]Nadje Al-Ali,Clare Hemmings &Carrie Hamilton -2013 -European Journal of Women's Studies 20 (1):93-99.No categories
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