Clare Hemmings
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 454955 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Clare Hemmings |
| NOMBRES | Clare |
| APELLIDO | Hemmings |
| FIRMA | HEMMINGS C |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1253-4547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 640 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Theorizing Contemporary Anti-Gender Politics
This introductory piece lays out the issues at stake in contemporary transnational “anti-gender” politics and explores modes of resistance available to activists and knowledge producers. The authors consider shifts in anti-gender focus in recent times and, in particular, states’ take-up of anti-gender politics as part of populism and increasing anti-trans* and anti-queer movements globally. The article also introduces the scope and interventions …
How are gender studies scholars resisting anti-gender politics in the United Kingdom
How are gender studies scholars resisting anti-gender politics in the United Kingdom? Clare Hemmings (bio) and Sumi Madhok (bio) Editors of Pandemonium spoke with Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok on August 3, 2023. Clare Hemmings: Sumi and I were recently supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant in Britain to build a network called Transnational "Anti-gender" Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions. Sumi Madhok: Thi…
We thought she was a witch
We thought she was a witch’ uses my own ‘memory archive’ to give texture to the complex inheritance of gender, class and race that characterises the present. Drawing on interviews, archival data and fictionalisation, the article explores the role of gendered labour in securing dominant understandings of class progress. Starting from stories, my mother and I weave together of the history of 64 Chepstow Road, Newport (where her maternal family live…
But I thought we'd already won that argument
This article responds to the invitation to participate in Feminist Studies ' celebration by reflecting on current stories about 'sex' and 'gender' that take place both within and outside of feminism. I start from how it feels to be subject to anti-gender attacks as someone who has worked within feminist studies for over three decades. I interrogate how affective temporality is mobilised both by anti-gender advocates in order to justify forms of v…
I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’
What follows is an interview with Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. A leading figure in UK feminist theory, her research insists that we acknowledge matters of ambivalence and uncertainty in our history-making, storytelling and theorising. As such, it contributes to and has productively intervened in many fields, including feminist epistemology, affect theo…
Where might we go if we dare
This article explores the multi-pronged relation between individual and collective haunting and political investments in divergent feminist and queer formations. Taking the form of an interview conversation, it traces the trajectories of a political life in sites ranging from the kitchen and the demonstration to the conference and the writing page, and on the way marking the possibilities and limitations of various political-intellectual traditio…
Lesbian ghosts feminism
Femininity revisited – A round table
One of our motivations
Resisting popular feminisms
This article tracks discursive and political use of gender and sexual equality in nationalist and popular accounts of feminism, focusing on the ways in which such discourses produce a particular linking of time and space in the articulation of ‘the Modern’ in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. It further explores the increasing popularity of feminism in some media and celebrity contexts that have historically been so hostile to it, asking f…
A Feminist Politics of Ambivalence
Feminist theory worldwide is confronting - perhaps as it always has done - a series of deep challenges. On the one hand, awareness of gender and sexual inequalities seems high; on the other, co-optation of feminism for nationalist or other right-wing agendas is rife. On the one hand, feminist social movements are in ascendancy, on the other there is a continued dominance of single issue feminism and a resistance to intersectional, non-binary inte…
Considering Emma Goldman
In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces them, finding them to be helpful in formulating a new queer feminist praxis. Mining three overlapping archives-Goldman's own writings, her histo…
Open Space
International audience
Food
Food Violence
Is Gender Studies Singular? Stories of Queer/Feminist Difference and Displacement
As a way of trying to ensure that feminism remains accountable and inclusive, there is an institutional tendency to multiply the subjects and objects of inquiry within women's and gender studies. While sympathetic to this impulse, this essay also recognizes that such pluralization tends to reinforce the separation between subjects and objects that women's and gender studies hopes to pluralize, often positioning "gender" as a more singular object …
Affect and Feminist Methodology, Or What Does It Mean to be Moved?
The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory
Introduction - Mary Evans PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY Introduction - Sumi Madhok & Mary Evans Feminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality - Lorraine Code Natural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge - Astrida Neimanis Feminist Auto/Biography - Gayle Letherby Power in Feminist Research Processes - Sabine Grenz Women's Lived Experience: Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Prese…
Sexual Freedom and the Promise of Revolution
This article explores the contributions to a history of sexuality, capitalism and revolution made when we consider the work of anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869-1940). I suggest that Goldman's centring of sexual freedom at the heart of revolutionary vision and practice is part of a long tradition of sexual politics, one which struggles to make sense of how productive and reproductive labour come together, and to identify the diffe…
The materials of reparation
In Object Lessons (2012), Robyn Wiegman considers how the political imaginary of the feminist alternative functions. She explores our attachments to feminism’s objects, quite brilliantly showing how we – as feminists – invest in theory and critique’s ability to transform the world. I am not entirely sure how she manages it, but Wiegman combines uncomfortable insights about, for example, our desires for the concept and practice of ‘intersectionali…
Re-Imagining Revolutions
Full text of this item is not currently available on the LRA. The final published version may be available through the links above
Gender, Agency, and Coercion
A review of Feminist Review ’s 100th issue
Considering Emma
This article considers the importance of the anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869–1940) for contemporary feminist theory and politics. Initially concerned with how Goldman’s views on power and change help us reconsider our own history and present, the author shifts gears in the course of the article to think aspects of her thought that are less easily reclaimed. Exploring her own and others’ desire for Goldman to resolve current diff…
Sexuality, subjectivity … and political economy
Affective solidarity
This article seeks to intervene in what I perceive to be a problematic opposition in feminist theory between ontological and epistemological accounts of existence and politics, by proposing an approach that weaves together Elspeth Probyn's conceptualisation of 'feminist reflexivity' with a re-reading of feminist standpoint through affect. In so doing, I develop the concept of affective solidarity as necessary for sustainable feminist politics of …
Invoking Affect
This article interrogates the contemporary emergence of affect as critical object and perspective through which to understand the social world and our place within it. Emphasising the unexpected, the singular or the quirky over the generally applicable, the turn to affect builds on important work in cultural studies on the pitfalls of writing the body out of theory. More importantly for this article, the contemporary interest in affect evidences …
Affective solidarity
This article seeks to intervene in what I perceive to be a problematic opposition in feminist theory between ontological and epistemological accounts of existence and politics, by proposing an approach that weaves together Elspeth Probyn's conceptualisation of 'feminist reflexivity' with a re-reading of feminist standpoint through affect. In so doing, I develop the concept of affective solidarity as necessary for sustainable feminist politics of …
Telling feminist stories
This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the devel…
What's in a Name? Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies
This paper explores the role of bisexuality in transnational sexuality studies. The author argues that bisexuality is either absent, or inscribed as potential or behaviour, rather than identity. In the process, transnational sexuality studies reproduces bisexuality's historical role as facilitator of Western sexual oppositions, a role that also facilitates colonial distinctions between cultures as sexually civilised or sexually primitive. In addi…
Contando estórias1 feministas
This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the devel…
Resisting popular feminisms
This article tracks discursive and political use of gender and sexual equality in nationalist and popular accounts of feminism, focusing on the ways in which such discourses produce a particular linking of time and space in the articulation of ‘the Modern’ in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. It further explores the increasing popularity of feminism in some media and celebrity contexts that have historically been so hostile to it, asking f…
Considering Emma Goldman
In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces them, finding them to be helpful in formulating a new queer feminist praxis. Mining three overlapping archives-Goldman's own writings, her histo…
Generational Dilemmas
Iris van der Tuin is surely right that feminist theorists need to challenge our linear generationalism, both in how we tell the story of the recent past and in how we occupy the present; a vibrant future for feminist epistemology depends on this
Where might we go if we dare
This article explores the multi-pronged relation between individual and collective haunting and political investments in divergent feminist and queer formations. Taking the form of an interview conversation, it traces the trajectories of a political life in sites ranging from the kitchen and the demonstration to the conference and the writing page, and on the way marking the possibilities and limitations of various political-intellectual traditio…
But I thought we'd already won that argument
This article responds to the invitation to participate in Feminist Studies ' celebration by reflecting on current stories about 'sex' and 'gender' that take place both within and outside of feminism. I start from how it feels to be subject to anti-gender attacks as someone who has worked within feminist studies for over three decades. I interrogate how affective temporality is mobilised both by anti-gender advocates in order to justify forms of v…
The materials of reparation
In Object Lessons (2012), Robyn Wiegman considers how the political imaginary of the feminist alternative functions. She explores our attachments to feminism’s objects, quite brilliantly showing how we – as feminists – invest in theory and critique’s ability to transform the world. I am not entirely sure how she manages it, but Wiegman combines uncomfortable insights about, for example, our desires for the concept and practice of ‘intersectionali…
Femininity revisited – A round table
One of our motivations
Considering Emma
This article considers the importance of the anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869–1940) for contemporary feminist theory and politics. Initially concerned with how Goldman’s views on power and change help us reconsider our own history and present, the author shifts gears in the course of the article to think aspects of her thought that are less easily reclaimed. Exploring her own and others’ desire for Goldman to resolve current diff…
In the Mood for Revolution
This article has two aims: to theorize ways in which mood is gendered, and to explore the importance of gendered mood in the life and work of Emma Goldman (anarchist writer and activist, 1869-1940). In the first part I track ways in which accounting for gender and sexuality changes how we think about mood with respect to duration, and as mediating the intersection of the public and private. I then proceed to highlight how mood is significant for …
What is a feminist theorist responsible for? Response to Rachel Torr
How are gender studies scholars resisting anti-gender politics in the United Kingdom
How are gender studies scholars resisting anti-gender politics in the United Kingdom? Clare Hemmings (bio) and Sumi Madhok (bio) Editors of Pandemonium spoke with Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok on August 3, 2023. Clare Hemmings: Sumi and I were recently supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant in Britain to build a network called Transnational "Anti-gender" Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions. Sumi Madhok: Thi…
Is Gender Studies Singular? Stories of Queer/Feminist Difference and Displacement
As a way of trying to ensure that feminism remains accountable and inclusive, there is an institutional tendency to multiply the subjects and objects of inquiry within women's and gender studies. While sympathetic to this impulse, this essay also recognizes that such pluralization tends to reinforce the separation between subjects and objects that women's and gender studies hopes to pluralize, often positioning "gender" as a more singular object …
Sexual Freedom and the Promise of Revolution
This article explores the contributions to a history of sexuality, capitalism and revolution made when we consider the work of anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869-1940). I suggest that Goldman's centring of sexual freedom at the heart of revolutionary vision and practice is part of a long tradition of sexual politics, one which struggles to make sense of how productive and reproductive labour come together, and to identify the diffe…
Re-Imagining Revolutions
Full text of this item is not currently available on the LRA. The final published version may be available through the links above
Ready for Bologna? The Impact of the Declaration on Women’s and Gender Studies in the UK
This article explores the likely impact that the Bologna Declaration (1999) will have on the field of women’s and gender studies in the UK. While the UK higher education sector as a whole has been slow to take up the opportunities and challenges presented by Bologna, this article argues that women’s and gender studies may gain particularly from a European reorientation. Women’s and gender studies currently has to struggle for both national resour…
We thought she was a witch
We thought she was a witch’ uses my own ‘memory archive’ to give texture to the complex inheritance of gender, class and race that characterises the present. Drawing on interviews, archival data and fictionalisation, the article explores the role of gendered labour in securing dominant understandings of class progress. Starting from stories, my mother and I weave together of the history of 64 Chepstow Road, Newport (where her maternal family live…
I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’
What follows is an interview with Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. A leading figure in UK feminist theory, her research insists that we acknowledge matters of ambivalence and uncertainty in our history-making, storytelling and theorising. As such, it contributes to and has productively intervened in many fields, including feminist epistemology, affect theo…
Lesbian ghosts feminism
Open Space
International audience
Open forum
Stretching Queer Boundaries
During the academic year 1997/98 Clare Hemmings organized a lecture series under the title Queer Today . . .? Contemporary Issues in Sexuality and Gender, within and sponsored by the School of Literary and Media Studies, University of North London (UNL). The motivation for the series came from the realization that a number of research students and staff at UNL were embarked on what could loosely be termed ‘queer projects’, and yet, as is so often…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Theorizing Femme Narrative
This article addresses the issue of femme subjectivity in relation to a range of theoretical and cultural texts. It considers the lasting legacy of Havelock Ellis's construction of the feminine invert, particularly in terms of the importance of the gendered gaze in producing sexual location. The article traces dominant and resistant femme narrative, and asks how we might begin to think through femme subjectivity and identity differently. It is ar…
Teaching Travelling Concepts in Europe
Geographic Theorizations of Sexuality
Telling feminist stories
This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the devel…
Invoking Affect
This article interrogates the contemporary emergence of affect as critical object and perspective through which to understand the social world and our place within it. Emphasising the unexpected, the singular or the quirky over the generally applicable, the turn to affect builds on important work in cultural studies on the pitfalls of writing the body out of theory. More importantly for this article, the contemporary interest in affect evidences …
Ready for Bologna? The Impact of the Declaration on Women’s and Gender Studies in the UK
This article explores the likely impact that the Bologna Declaration (1999) will have on the field of women’s and gender studies in the UK. While the UK higher education sector as a whole has been slow to take up the opportunities and challenges presented by Bologna, this article argues that women’s and gender studies may gain particularly from a European reorientation. Women’s and gender studies currently has to struggle for both national resour…
Sexual Moralities
Everyday Struggling
Rescuing Lesbian Camp
This paper explores the limits of lesbian camp as it is currently conceived within Lesbian Studies. I argue, in what I hope is a rather circuitous way, that a reliance on repudiative models of identity formation fixes gender as complementary and sexuality as oppositional, irrespective of intention. In this context, I imagine instead what it would take to theorize femininity itself as camp, and femme subjects as ideal for working this through at t…
What's in a Name? Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies
This paper explores the role of bisexuality in transnational sexuality studies. The author argues that bisexuality is either absent, or inscribed as potential or behaviour, rather than identity. In the process, transnational sexuality studies reproduces bisexuality's historical role as facilitator of Western sexual oppositions, a role that also facilitates colonial distinctions between cultures as sexually civilised or sexually primitive. In addi…
What is a feminist theorist responsible for? Response to Rachel Torr
Tuning Problems
International audience
Generational Dilemmas
Iris van der Tuin is surely right that feminist theorists need to challenge our linear generationalism, both in how we tell the story of the recent past and in how we occupy the present; a vibrant future for feminist epistemology depends on this
Contando estórias1 feministas
This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am critical of an insistent narrative that sees the devel…
On reading Transpositions
Transforming Academies, Global Genealogies
Why Stories Matter
This book is on how feminists tell stories about Western feminist theory's recent past, why these stories matter, and what we can do to transform them.It explores their narrative form and charts their interaction with other stories about feminism and social change.It asks what might be at stake in feminist storytelling, and most importantly it seeks to intervene in these stories, to realign their political grammar to allow a different vision of a…
Open forum
Sexuality, subjectivity … and political economy
Affective solidarity
This article seeks to intervene in what I perceive to be a problematic opposition in feminist theory between ontological and epistemological accounts of existence and politics, by proposing an approach that weaves together Elspeth Probyn's conceptualisation of 'feminist reflexivity' with a re-reading of feminist standpoint through affect. In so doing, I develop the concept of affective solidarity as necessary for sustainable feminist politics of …
In the Mood for Revolution
This article has two aims: to theorize ways in which mood is gendered, and to explore the importance of gendered mood in the life and work of Emma Goldman (anarchist writer and activist, 1869-1940). In the first part I track ways in which accounting for gender and sexuality changes how we think about mood with respect to duration, and as mediating the intersection of the public and private. I then proceed to highlight how mood is significant for …
Gender, Agency, and Coercion
A review of Feminist Review ’s 100th issue
Considering Emma
This article considers the importance of the anarchist thinker and activist Emma Goldman (1869–1940) for contemporary feminist theory and politics. Initially concerned with how Goldman’s views on power and change help us reconsider our own history and present, the author shifts gears in the course of the article to think aspects of her thought that are less easily reclaimed. Exploring her own and others’ desire for Goldman to resolve current diff…
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