[Anarchafeminists] Sexual Politics and Revolution

[Jamie Heckert]

Hi all,

I'm sure many of you will be interested in this!

Love & anarchy,
Jamie
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> From: Clare Hemmings <C.Hemmings at lse.ac.uk>
> Date: 27 February 2013 15:03
> Subject: [CRITSEX] Sexual Politics and Revolution
> To: CRITSEX at jiscmail.ac.uk
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> Please find attached details of a forthcoming event that list members
might be interested in… (a bit rude to post your own event, I realise, but
sure people will forgive me!). Do forward to other lists, and hope to see
people there.
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> Clare
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> Sexual Politics and Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion
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> Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory, LSE Gender Institute
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> Monday 11 March 2013
> 6.30pm - 8.00pm
> Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
> Chaired by Professor Anne Phillips
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> Gendering the Social Sciences: A Gender Institute Public Lecture.
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> Open to all - no booking required.
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> Twitter Hashtag: #LSEhemmings
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> Abstract
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> This paper charts the significance of Emma Goldman's revolutionary
thought for a contemporary analysis of sexuality, gender and revolt.
Throughout her life (1869-1940) and work Goldman centred sexuality as both
key to how capitalism functions (particularly for women) and as a
privileged site for political transformation. Connecting sexuality to
labour, Goldman's analyses of reproduction, prostitution, homosexuality and
free love provide a helpful challenge to contemporary feminist investments
in materialist and cultural analyses as opposed, and open up the
possibility of an alternative feminist history with sexual materialism at
its heart. But in claiming Goldman's thinking for a post-Marxist queer and
feminist politics, what do we need to ignore in her thought? What does
serious consideration of the sexual (but not gendered) essentialism that
grounds Goldman's thought do to a contemporary vision of feminist
transformation? Drawing on primary materials and a creative re-reading of
archival fragments, I suggest that Goldman's sexual politics allows for a
reinvigorated feminist method (as well as politics) with a real connection
to others at its heart.
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> Biography
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> Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory and has been working at
LSE for 13 years. Her primary areas of research interest are feminist
theory and sexuality studies, and her main publications in these spheres
are 'Bisexual Spaces' (Routledge 2002) and 'Why Stories Matter' (2011), for
which she won the 2012 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize.
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> Dr. Meg Barker, The Open University
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