Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex
Autor Dr Finn Mackayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350466623
ISBN-10: 135046662X
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 135046662X
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Author is an academic and activist, having founded the London Feminist Network in 2004, thus has unique insight and links within the world of LGBTQ activism.
Notă biografică
Finn Mackay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England and completed a PhD in the Centre for Gender & Violence Research at the University of Bristol. A longstanding feminist activist, Finn founded the London Feminist Network in 2004; and is a frequent media commentator on feminist and LGBTQI+ topics.
Cuprins
Chapter 1 Introduction The Scale of the GenderquakeChapter 2 Turf-Wars: Dispatches From The Wrong Sides of HistoryChapter 3 Butch/ering The 'Real' : Gender without sexChapter 4 Voices from the BorderlandsChapter 5 Multiple Locations of HomeChapter 6 ConclusionIndex
Recenzii
Thoughtful and often moving. The book is partly an attempt to let a butch community that is often talked over finally speak for itself. There is a quiet resolve to Mackay, who when asked how they have managed to keep a foot in both camps for so long says firmly: "I don't think anything healthy comes from people hunkering down in their bunkers." It is only as we go our separate ways in the sunshine that it occurs to me how much courage that now takes.
By turns witty and deeply serious, Finn Mackay has managed to find a way through and even around the messy gender wars currently raging on and offline. With calm precision and clear rhetoric, Mackay lays out the nuts and bolts of sex, gender, gender transition, sexual orientation, hormones, masculinity, femininity and much, much more. Whether you are a seasoned gender warrior or an armchair observer of the debates swirling around these topics today, you will find answers to your questions and concerns here. More than that, you will hear from trans, butch and gender-questioning people who, far from being examples in an argument between feminists or doctors, are living with contradiction, surviving for the most part, and, often, modeling new ways of being in the world.
This book confronts, explains, explores, deconstructs and then quite beautifully and reasonably creates space, safe space, ordered space for discussion and a far greater depth of understanding. I kept thinking throughout the book that the little kid in the baseball cap has grown up to become brilliant, brave and generous. A vital spacious text.
In this brave and wise guide to the gender wars, Finn Mackay combines both personal insight and illuminating scholarship. Writing as a radical feminist and masculine-presenting female person, she brings an eye-opening perspective to the validity of marginalized identities-and she points persuasively to their importance in the revolution to overthrow male supremacy.
"While most people will experience my work and my being as a far left leaning enterprise in actual fact I am more interested in 'the middle ground', 'the grey areas', what I call the space of 'queer liminality'. The first thing that strikes me, (like an ever so gentle slap in the face), about Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars, Finn Mackay's latest public intervention, is how very similar we are, despite having a vastly different personal narrative and social circle. Finn draws upon lived experience as a female bodied person with a presentation that causes others to make assumptions about both her sex and gender identity. Finn is a questioner who eschews the comfort of binary thinking in favour of a more nuanced approach. I would even go as far to say that Finn embodies 'true genius' in their ability to recognize how two or more seemingly oppositional ideas can be true at the same time."Del LaGrace Volcano, Artist and Activist
Nodding along furiously and getting all sorts of feels about how none of this has been understood very much, on butch masculinity. What Finn writes is so in sync with my childhood perception of the butch women around me, those perceptions are my compass for truth because, well, I was a child, and had zero consciousness of any issue about anyone being who they are. Finn's writing nails it so well I think, it's kind of revelatory. All too often I read stuff in LGBTQI+ arenas, or feminism, and can't see it chiming at all with those women back then. Which is not necessarily a failing or criticism, just what I think. Everyone would have been passing this writing around at The Gateways though; I'm really sure of that.
By turns witty and deeply serious, Finn Mackay has managed to find a way through and even around the messy gender wars currently raging on and offline. With calm precision and clear rhetoric, Mackay lays out the nuts and bolts of sex, gender, gender transition, sexual orientation, hormones, masculinity, femininity and much, much more. Whether you are a seasoned gender warrior or an armchair observer of the debates swirling around these topics today, you will find answers to your questions and concerns here. More than that, you will hear from trans, butch and gender-questioning people who, far from being examples in an argument between feminists or doctors, are living with contradiction, surviving for the most part, and, often, modeling new ways of being in the world.
This book confronts, explains, explores, deconstructs and then quite beautifully and reasonably creates space, safe space, ordered space for discussion and a far greater depth of understanding. I kept thinking throughout the book that the little kid in the baseball cap has grown up to become brilliant, brave and generous. A vital spacious text.
In this brave and wise guide to the gender wars, Finn Mackay combines both personal insight and illuminating scholarship. Writing as a radical feminist and masculine-presenting female person, she brings an eye-opening perspective to the validity of marginalized identities-and she points persuasively to their importance in the revolution to overthrow male supremacy.
"While most people will experience my work and my being as a far left leaning enterprise in actual fact I am more interested in 'the middle ground', 'the grey areas', what I call the space of 'queer liminality'. The first thing that strikes me, (like an ever so gentle slap in the face), about Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars, Finn Mackay's latest public intervention, is how very similar we are, despite having a vastly different personal narrative and social circle. Finn draws upon lived experience as a female bodied person with a presentation that causes others to make assumptions about both her sex and gender identity. Finn is a questioner who eschews the comfort of binary thinking in favour of a more nuanced approach. I would even go as far to say that Finn embodies 'true genius' in their ability to recognize how two or more seemingly oppositional ideas can be true at the same time."Del LaGrace Volcano, Artist and Activist
Nodding along furiously and getting all sorts of feels about how none of this has been understood very much, on butch masculinity. What Finn writes is so in sync with my childhood perception of the butch women around me, those perceptions are my compass for truth because, well, I was a child, and had zero consciousness of any issue about anyone being who they are. Finn's writing nails it so well I think, it's kind of revelatory. All too often I read stuff in LGBTQI+ arenas, or feminism, and can't see it chiming at all with those women back then. Which is not necessarily a failing or criticism, just what I think. Everyone would have been passing this writing around at The Gateways though; I'm really sure of that.