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Tiêu đề
Lesbian, feminist, TERF: a queer attack on feminist studies
Tác giả
Thomsen C.; Essig L.
Năm xuất bản
2021
Source title
Journal of Lesbian Studies
Số trích dẫn
2
DOI
10.1080/10894160.2021.1950270
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a “queer attack on feminist studies” at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not because of any actual transphobic behavior, but because of our work to question gender systems and ideologies. By examining how some students and diversity office staff alike mobilized the TERF, as well as the ideologies that allow for slippages among the terms “lesbian,” “feminist,” and “TERF,” we outline how the lesbian and the feminist are in danger of becoming permanently reactionary figures. In so doing, we reflect on the relationship between performing diversity work and policing academic studies of gender and sexuality, ultimately arguing that the mobilization of the TERF can function both to further extend the work of the diversity industry and also to call into question academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Từ khóa
diversity industry; feminist studies; lesbian feminist; moral panic; TERF
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Routledge
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