Wendy Mallette
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Mallette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mallette |
| SIGNATURE | MALLETTE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5100-7842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Once Upon a Lesbian Theory
Once Upon a Lesbian Theory" analyzes how stories told about the origins of queer theory can distort and exclude, extending Kent Brintnall's "Once Upon a Queer Theory" in a lesbian key. I first consider the fate of lesbian theory as it emerges within one dominant mode of queer storytelling: the progress narrative. I trace the racial and temporal politics of this story across queer theory, religious studies, and theology. Next, I turn to two litera…
Beverly Smith’s “Notes on This Mess”
This article theorizes the lesbian feminist killjoy’s negativity in order to elucidate the temporal, affective, and redemptive politics found within feminist and queer collective memory by bringing Conditions: Five and Beverly Smith’s “The Wedding” into conversation with Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter’s Sex Wars . I show how progress narratives presume the unattractiveness of lesbian feminism while investing queerness with the capacity to overcome le…
Questioning Empathetic Responsiveness to Nonhuman Animal Vulnerability
The author uses critical theorizations of empathy, compassion, and epistemology in order to draw out the limits of appeals to respond to nonhuman animal gazes in religious studies. Taking Aaron S. Gross’s and Donovan O. Schaefer’s recent works as exemplary, the author argues that empathetic postures towards vulnerability deny the potential violences of empathy and inadvertently reproduce the scholar as an ethical, conscious, and knowing subject. …
The Possibilities and Limits of Queer Strategies of Denaturalizing and Resignifying Gendered Symbolics
In this article, I take up Marcella Althaus-Reid’s queer strategy that pairs disaffiliation with intimate identification in order to draw out the possibilities and limits of queer strategies of resignification and denaturalization. I will use David M. Halperin’s work on gay femininity, abjection, and camp as the primary site to investigate these queer strategies. This article’s considerations have implications for recent directions taken in conte…
Questioning Empathetic Responsiveness to Nonhuman Animal Vulnerability
The author uses critical theorizations of empathy, compassion, and epistemology in order to draw out the limits of appeals to respond to nonhuman animal gazes in religious studies. Taking Aaron S. Gross’s and Donovan O. Schaefer’s recent works as exemplary, the author argues that empathetic postures towards vulnerability deny the potential violences of empathy and inadvertently reproduce the scholar as an ethical, conscious, and knowing subject. …
The Possibilities and Limits of Queer Strategies of Denaturalizing and Resignifying Gendered Symbolics
In this article, I take up Marcella Althaus-Reid’s queer strategy that pairs disaffiliation with intimate identification in order to draw out the possibilities and limits of queer strategies of resignification and denaturalization. I will use David M. Halperin’s work on gay femininity, abjection, and camp as the primary site to investigate these queer strategies. This article’s considerations have implications for recent directions taken in conte…
Questioning Empathetic Responsiveness to Nonhuman Animal Vulnerability
The author uses critical theorizations of empathy, compassion, and epistemology in order to draw out the limits of appeals to respond to nonhuman animal gazes in religious studies. Taking Aaron S. Gross’s and Donovan O. Schaefer’s recent works as exemplary, the author argues that empathetic postures towards vulnerability deny the potential violences of empathy and inadvertently reproduce the scholar as an ethical, conscious, and knowing subject. …
Beverly Smith’s “Notes on This Mess”
This article theorizes the lesbian feminist killjoy’s negativity in order to elucidate the temporal, affective, and redemptive politics found within feminist and queer collective memory by bringing Conditions: Five and Beverly Smith’s “The Wedding” into conversation with Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter’s Sex Wars . I show how progress narratives presume the unattractiveness of lesbian feminism while investing queerness with the capacity to overcome le…
Once Upon a Lesbian Theory
Once Upon a Lesbian Theory" analyzes how stories told about the origins of queer theory can distort and exclude, extending Kent Brintnall's "Once Upon a Queer Theory" in a lesbian key. I first consider the fate of lesbian theory as it emerges within one dominant mode of queer storytelling: the progress narrative. I trace the racial and temporal politics of this story across queer theory, religious studies, and theology. Next, I turn to two litera…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Lesbian (2 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Queer (2 works)