What does the vaginal speculum have to do with power? How does the history of this instrument help us to understand how bodies have been understood, policed, and governed? Can this object be reclaimed?
Lisa Godson explores.
Tag: feminism
Intersectionality and the New York Gay Liberation Front
Jack Mason uses Kimberle Crenshaw’s framework of intersectionality to reconsider the work of the New York Gay Liberation Front.
Radical Objects: “Dear Comrade Angela”
Maurice Casey explores letters sent to Angela Davis from Britain and Ireland during her imprisonment in California in 1971-72.
No uterus, no opinion? Travestis, Gays & Maricas’ Activism for the Abortion Legalization in Argentina
How did the movements for bodily autonomy by those without the capacity to conceive – travestis, maricas, and gays – contribute to Argentina’s recent legalization of abortion? Marce Butierrez and Patricio Simonetto trace the genealogy of trans-feminist alliances.
‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History
The “Sex Buyers’ Bill” now pending in Parliament aims to protect women from exploitation by criminalizing men who buy sex, yet it is vehemently opposed by UK sex workers. Julia Laite explores the tangled history and woeful consequences of attempts to outlaw the trade in sex.
Beyond ‘Misbehaviour’: Sally Alexander in Conversation
As the film ‘Misbehaviour’ launches this week, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore speaks to women’s liberationist and flour-bomber of the Miss World contest, Sally Alexander (played by Kiera Knightly), about history, psychoanalysis and collectivity.
Virtual Special Issue: Revolutions
“Radicals have planned them and protagonists have nearly always tried to steer them, but real revolutions nonetheless involve a considerable element of surprise.” Rebecca Spang introduces the new Virtual Special Issue of HWJ, on revolutions.
