Ida West
Biographic Data
| ID | 307770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ida West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ida |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0798-7210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
It Did Get Better
Drafting this article in the United States in the first days of 2025, the prospects for brighter futures are dim, especially for queer folks. Revanchist agents are increasingly successful in crafting perceived threats posed by the most incremental forms of recognition and dignity. Pronouns, bathrooms, marriage, representations on screens—it has all gone too far, so say our allies and rivals alike, echoing familiar refrains from the classic hits o…
Shirts and skins
An Archive of Hope
Heroism’s Contexts
In 2013, Robbie Rogers, an American professional soccer player living out his dream as a member of a British team, came out as gay to his family and fans. The subsequent coverage varied across outlets, especially between those based inside and outside of the United States. In general, media reports outside of the United States articulated Rogers to Justin Fashanu, a British soccer player who had been outed in 1990 and subsequently completed a sui…
This Could Be the Place
In our engagement with Lars and the Real Girl (LRG), we encourage a reading of the film that emphasizes how it playfully and performatively reproduces and, in the process, undoes norms of temporality and collectivity. In particular, LRG queers normative understandings of public culture, identity, and community in three primary ways. First, the film queers typical understandings of time, challenging the presumed distinctions between past, present,…
Transgender Studies Reader
Reviving Rage
Pissar's Critically Queer and Disabled Politics
PISSAR (People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms) offers an instructive example about the possibility for critically queer and disabled politics. Using public bathrooms as a site of activism, PISSAR, through the consubstantiality of shame, demonstrates the mutually constitutive and performative properties of bodies interacting in space. PISSAR's actions provide pedagogical insight into the negotiation of coalitional politics, especially …
Debbie Mayne's Trans/scripts
Complementing existing literatures on agency, I suggest a fuller engagement with the work of Judith Butler to emphasize the embodied practices of performative repertoires as a critical source of judgment and invention. Putting Butler into conversation with James Scott's concepts of public and hidden transcripts, this essay helps explain how subjects productively negotiate the discursive circuitries of their domination to make life more livable. T…
Performing Resistance in/from the Kitchen
During the Vietnam War, a maternal pacifist group named La WISP developed and sold cookbooks as fundraisers for its causes. The cookbooks provide an opportunity to explore the linkages between quotidian practices and the performativity of identity. This critique offers instructive evidence about the inventional possibilities of maternal pacifist politics, including the redefinition of issues of war and peace in international rather than national …
True Selves
Forord/preface
Pissar's Critically Queer and Disabled Politics
PISSAR (People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms) offers an instructive example about the possibility for critically queer and disabled politics. Using public bathrooms as a site of activism, PISSAR, through the consubstantiality of shame, demonstrates the mutually constitutive and performative properties of bodies interacting in space. PISSAR's actions provide pedagogical insight into the negotiation of coalitional politics, especially …
Performing Resistance in/from the Kitchen
During the Vietnam War, a maternal pacifist group named La WISP developed and sold cookbooks as fundraisers for its causes. The cookbooks provide an opportunity to explore the linkages between quotidian practices and the performativity of identity. This critique offers instructive evidence about the inventional possibilities of maternal pacifist politics, including the redefinition of issues of war and peace in international rather than national …
Debbie Mayne's Trans/scripts
Complementing existing literatures on agency, I suggest a fuller engagement with the work of Judith Butler to emphasize the embodied practices of performative repertoires as a critical source of judgment and invention. Putting Butler into conversation with James Scott's concepts of public and hidden transcripts, this essay helps explain how subjects productively negotiate the discursive circuitries of their domination to make life more livable. T…
This Could Be the Place
In our engagement with Lars and the Real Girl (LRG), we encourage a reading of the film that emphasizes how it playfully and performatively reproduces and, in the process, undoes norms of temporality and collectivity. In particular, LRG queers normative understandings of public culture, identity, and community in three primary ways. First, the film queers typical understandings of time, challenging the presumed distinctions between past, present,…
Forord/preface
True Selves
Performing Resistance in/from the Kitchen
During the Vietnam War, a maternal pacifist group named La WISP developed and sold cookbooks as fundraisers for its causes. The cookbooks provide an opportunity to explore the linkages between quotidian practices and the performativity of identity. This critique offers instructive evidence about the inventional possibilities of maternal pacifist politics, including the redefinition of issues of war and peace in international rather than national …
Debbie Mayne's Trans/scripts
Complementing existing literatures on agency, I suggest a fuller engagement with the work of Judith Butler to emphasize the embodied practices of performative repertoires as a critical source of judgment and invention. Putting Butler into conversation with James Scott's concepts of public and hidden transcripts, this essay helps explain how subjects productively negotiate the discursive circuitries of their domination to make life more livable. T…
Pissar's Critically Queer and Disabled Politics
PISSAR (People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms) offers an instructive example about the possibility for critically queer and disabled politics. Using public bathrooms as a site of activism, PISSAR, through the consubstantiality of shame, demonstrates the mutually constitutive and performative properties of bodies interacting in space. PISSAR's actions provide pedagogical insight into the negotiation of coalitional politics, especially …
Reviving Rage
This Could Be the Place
In our engagement with Lars and the Real Girl (LRG), we encourage a reading of the film that emphasizes how it playfully and performatively reproduces and, in the process, undoes norms of temporality and collectivity. In particular, LRG queers normative understandings of public culture, identity, and community in three primary ways. First, the film queers typical understandings of time, challenging the presumed distinctions between past, present,…
Transgender Studies Reader
Heroism’s Contexts
In 2013, Robbie Rogers, an American professional soccer player living out his dream as a member of a British team, came out as gay to his family and fans. The subsequent coverage varied across outlets, especially between those based inside and outside of the United States. In general, media reports outside of the United States articulated Rogers to Justin Fashanu, a British soccer player who had been outed in 1990 and subsequently completed a sui…
An Archive of Hope
Shirts and skins
It Did Get Better
Drafting this article in the United States in the first days of 2025, the prospects for brighter futures are dim, especially for queer folks. Revanchist agents are increasingly successful in crafting perceived threats posed by the most incremental forms of recognition and dignity. Pronouns, bathrooms, marriage, representations on screens—it has all gone too far, so say our allies and rivals alike, echoing familiar refrains from the classic hits o…
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)