Finn Mackay
Biographic Data
| ID | 304496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Finn Mackay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Finn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackay |
| SIGNATURE | MACKAY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5922-2025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving
Women have demanded their humanity as full human beings; perhaps it is because this is a women’s demand that so much policy aimed at saving men and alleviating men’s suffering is instead focussed on saving masculinity. Many programmes addressed at the challenges facing men as men rarely make their case with claims to men’s humanity and human rights, as if this is so obvious and given that it would be feminizing to point it out. Instead, claims ar…
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics
In a large event with audience participation at the University of Oxford, organized by Ruth Chang, Catharine A. MacKinnon, together with commentators Finn Mackay, Mischa Shuman, and Sandra Fredman, engage crucial issues of transgender identity, experience, and treatment in the context of requirements for the liberation of women, and evaluate current debates by feminist standards. Legal, social, political, and philosophical questions are documente…
Introduction to Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue: On Solidarity
Still Too Hot To Handle? Firebrand Radical Feminism
This is a particularly important time to be reconsidering and revisiting radical feminism. The contemporary visibility of trans rights movements, and the unsurprising, accompanying backlash from a variety of camps makes this a politically charged and tense moment for reflection on the herstory, present, and future of this school of feminism
No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens
This article presents empirical data from survey research into lesbian and queer masculinities in the United Kingdom, conducted in 2017, which garnered over two hundred responses. Dominant themes emerged which addressed the differences between the sexed body and gender identity; the contradictions of identifying with masculinities while critiquing hegemonic masculinity; a sense of anxiety or loss around a perceived decline of lesbian community an…
Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK
Radical feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement
Mackay advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's audience that exposes the real reasons why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it. Through [an] ... account of the global Reclaim the Night March and drawing on interviews with activists from across the generations, this book confronts the controversial issues facing men, women, and feminism in contemporary society to shatter the illusion t…
Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism
In this article, using empirical data gathered from survey research and semi-structured interviews with feminist activists across the UK, I shall explore how activists themselves relate to the term third wave. It emerged that for many activists, the term freighted particular political ideologies, and was not used simply as a generational referent or chronological marker point in the progression of feminism as a social movement. One group of femin…
Radical Feminism
How has feminism changed in the UK since the 1960s? This was the question I set out to explore in my research on the British Women's Liberation Movement, published as Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement (2015). I found that the motivations and aspirations of activists today were similar to those reported by feminists of the Second Wave; but the methods and tactics were more professionalized and there was less of a focus on women-only …
Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches
Reclaiming Revolutionary Feminism
Generally, saying: 'feminist', is revolutionary enough in this day and age, it's far more of a statement now than it was back in the eighties. And no, I wouldn't say I was a Revolutionary Feminist now 'cos I'm less separatist than I was at that time and I think it's got overladen with such baggage that I'd have to spend about ten minutes defining what I meant. (Interview with Al Garthwaite, Leeds, 20 January 2012
Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK
Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism
In this article, using empirical data gathered from survey research and semi-structured interviews with feminist activists across the UK, I shall explore how activists themselves relate to the term third wave. It emerged that for many activists, the term freighted particular political ideologies, and was not used simply as a generational referent or chronological marker point in the progression of feminism as a social movement. One group of femin…
Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches
Radical Feminism
How has feminism changed in the UK since the 1960s? This was the question I set out to explore in my research on the British Women's Liberation Movement, published as Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement (2015). I found that the motivations and aspirations of activists today were similar to those reported by feminists of the Second Wave; but the methods and tactics were more professionalized and there was less of a focus on women-only …
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics
In a large event with audience participation at the University of Oxford, organized by Ruth Chang, Catharine A. MacKinnon, together with commentators Finn Mackay, Mischa Shuman, and Sandra Fredman, engage crucial issues of transgender identity, experience, and treatment in the context of requirements for the liberation of women, and evaluate current debates by feminist standards. Legal, social, political, and philosophical questions are documente…
Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches
Reclaiming Revolutionary Feminism
Generally, saying: 'feminist', is revolutionary enough in this day and age, it's far more of a statement now than it was back in the eighties. And no, I wouldn't say I was a Revolutionary Feminist now 'cos I'm less separatist than I was at that time and I think it's got overladen with such baggage that I'd have to spend about ten minutes defining what I meant. (Interview with Al Garthwaite, Leeds, 20 January 2012
Radical feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement
Mackay advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's audience that exposes the real reasons why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it. Through [an] ... account of the global Reclaim the Night March and drawing on interviews with activists from across the generations, this book confronts the controversial issues facing men, women, and feminism in contemporary society to shatter the illusion t…
Political Not Generational: Getting Real About Contemporary UK Radical Feminism
In this article, using empirical data gathered from survey research and semi-structured interviews with feminist activists across the UK, I shall explore how activists themselves relate to the term third wave. It emerged that for many activists, the term freighted particular political ideologies, and was not used simply as a generational referent or chronological marker point in the progression of feminism as a social movement. One group of femin…
Radical Feminism
How has feminism changed in the UK since the 1960s? This was the question I set out to explore in my research on the British Women's Liberation Movement, published as Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement (2015). I found that the motivations and aspirations of activists today were similar to those reported by feminists of the Second Wave; but the methods and tactics were more professionalized and there was less of a focus on women-only …
No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens
This article presents empirical data from survey research into lesbian and queer masculinities in the United Kingdom, conducted in 2017, which garnered over two hundred responses. Dominant themes emerged which addressed the differences between the sexed body and gender identity; the contradictions of identifying with masculinities while critiquing hegemonic masculinity; a sense of anxiety or loss around a perceived decline of lesbian community an…
Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK
Still Too Hot To Handle? Firebrand Radical Feminism
This is a particularly important time to be reconsidering and revisiting radical feminism. The contemporary visibility of trans rights movements, and the unsurprising, accompanying backlash from a variety of camps makes this a politically charged and tense moment for reflection on the herstory, present, and future of this school of feminism
Introduction to Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue: On Solidarity
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics
In a large event with audience participation at the University of Oxford, organized by Ruth Chang, Catharine A. MacKinnon, together with commentators Finn Mackay, Mischa Shuman, and Sandra Fredman, engage crucial issues of transgender identity, experience, and treatment in the context of requirements for the liberation of women, and evaluate current debates by feminist standards. Legal, social, political, and philosophical questions are documente…
Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving
Women have demanded their humanity as full human beings; perhaps it is because this is a women’s demand that so much policy aimed at saving men and alleviating men’s suffering is instead focussed on saving masculinity. Many programmes addressed at the challenges facing men as men rarely make their case with claims to men’s humanity and human rights, as if this is so obvious and given that it would be feminizing to point it out. Instead, claims ar…
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Gender Studies (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Feminism (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works)