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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Ideas in Circulation: The Aesthetics of Transmission in Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto”
This article centers on Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto,” written in 1914. It aims to look more closely at how the manifesto deals with transmission – and possible breakdowns in transmission – from textual conception to publication.
Elise Ottavino
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Inte bitch men butch - En kort queerteoretisk hjälpreda för feminister
This article addresses the shortcomings of some feminist readings of queer genders. Focussing on masculinity without men, this article discusses the aesthetics and gender politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian tradition.
Tina Rosenberg
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On feminist activist aesthetics
This article discusses some trends in critical theory and activist aesthetics in contemporary feminist performing arts in Sweden. The 2000s have witnessed at least two ‘‘turns’’ in feminist theory, namely the affective turn and the social, or as it is called here, the solidarity turn.
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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This article interrogates gender transitioning by centering nonbinary experiences, which challenge the binary‐driven narratives that dominate both medical and sociological frameworks of transition. Drawing on seven focus groups with 48 nonbinary participants across multiple countries, this study explores three interrelated forms of transition: social ...
S. M. Rodriguez
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ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty [PDF]
I argued in 2000 that the French artist ORLAN may have moved away from her Reincarnation performances toward her Self-Hybridizations because she thought that in the latter she would be more transparently obvious in meaning and less frequently ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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This Woman's Work: On the Relationship Between Creative and Reproductive Cognitive Labor
ABSTRACT Persistent gender inequality in creative industries is typically explained through exclusionary networks, precarity, and discrimination. This article shifts focus to the cognitive and temporal dynamics that may influence such inequality. Drawing on dyadic interviews with Canadian parents who work or previously worked in creative fields, it ...
Kim de Laat
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Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care [PDF]
This essay draws on feminist work on the ethics of care to both (re)establish an alliance between the very young and the very old and to begin to challenge the normative models of subjectivity and spectatorship that circulate within film and television ...
Holdsworth, Amy, Lury, Karen
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