... critiques of feminism reception of A Gender Diary feminist ambivalence feminist binaries ...

... to create a dialogue. This critique section also includes the author’s more general speculations about the piece’s reception, limitations, and possible usefulness for moving with more clarity and empathy among feminist positions. Feminist ambivalence about central women’s movement goals is unavoidable...

... usefulness for moving with more clarity and empathy among feminist positions. Feminist ambivalence about central women’s movement goals is unavoidable and potentially productive. critiques of feminism reception of A Gender Diary feminist ambivalence feminist binaries ...

... The cinema of experience, read through the cinema of Chantal Akerman and the phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, showcases experiences of ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe, and plasticity. As theorized here, this form of cinema utilizes cinematic mechanisms to shift the gaze, create a new...

... This chapter contemplates the ambivalent politics of human rights in Pakistan, particularly as it relates to legislating “honor crimes.” Using the 2016 killing of Qandeel Baloch, a social media celebrity in Pakistan, as a trampoline for theoretical reflection, this chapter undertakes...

... of ambivalence. Black feminist thinking on motherwork and fabulation guides this chapter’s exploration of how Akerman’s camerawork creates cinematic spaces where new practices of mothering and motherwork can be experienced and imagined. Akerman’s cinematic search for mothers is contrasted with Roland Barthes’s...

...Anti-Trans Politics In recent years, social conservatives and certain radical feminists have joined forces in legislative and judicial conflicts over the rights of physicians and therapists to treat gender-nonconforming and transgender youth as well as inclusionary bathroom access policies...

... To theorize the present condition of trans women under unprecedented historical surveillance, this chapter examines the ambivalence and erotic deflation of a “stoner neo-noir” cinema subgenre. This genre’s principles were sketched in 1970s noir revival movies (Chinatown, The Long Goodbye...