Clare Woodford
Biographic Data
| ID | 366158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Woodford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodford |
| SIGNATURE | WOODFORD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2029-972X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1895 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Care and Contemporary Violence: Deconstructing the Monstrous in/as Cavarero’s Horrorism
This article offers a feminist reworking of Adriana Cavarero’s conceptualization of horrorism as a form of extreme violence that targets and dehumanizes its victims through dismemberment and an ontological assault on human uniqueness. While Cavarero’s intervention is motivated by a commitment to resisting patriarchal logics of war and reorienting political thought toward care, we argue that her framework depends on an overly fixed opposition betw…
Queer Madonnas, Nonviolence, and the Macho Christian Right; or “How to Do Mariology Without Men”
This article asks whether Adriana Cavarero's invocation of the Christian Madonna to inspire a pacifist feminist ethics could help counter the ever-strengthening alliance between Conservative Christianity and the radical right which I refer to as "Macho Christianity."To flesh out Cavarero's undeveloped invocation of the Madonna's love as "non-stereotypical" I turn to queer and nondominant indigenous Mariologies to provide a novel reading that demo…
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig
This article argues that although post-truth is understood to pose a particular misogynistic threat to feminism, we cannot assume that feminists should simply oppose post-truth. The way the post-truth debate is constructed is problematic for feminism in three ways: it misconceives the relationship between democracy and truth; utilizes a questionable binary between reason and emotion; and propagates elitist assumptions about protecting democracy f…
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy
The UK Prevent strategy is strongly criticized: accused of racism, human rights violations, and demonization of the (Muslim) other. Outlining an original interpretation of these problems, the article draws on political theory to identify parallels between this controversy and Stanley Cavell's critique of John Rawls' Theory of Justice. Although aiming to avoid violence, Rawls limited the 'conversation of justice' in advance such that a democratic …
Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK
Rethinking populism and democracy in politically turbulent times
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of populist politics across the globe. The early 21st century saw the pink tide of left wing populism in Latin America, the Southern European populisms that rejected the politics of austerity after 2013, and the right wing populisms that now dominate not only European but global polities. Although each instance of populist politics is distinct, all share an appeal to the people, to the true people,…
Critical Theory Today: Missing Emancipation
Axel Honneth and Jacques Rancière represent two different, but complementary post-Marxist traditions in political thought
Female Desire and the Mind‐body Binary in Fin De Siècle Fiction by Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas‐salomé and Gabriele Reuter
In the late nineteenth century, women writers seek to emancipate the feminine subject from the plots of a phallocentric tradition which transmitted repressive models of femininity. The short stories ‘Werde, die Du bist’ (1894) by Hedwig Dohm, ‘Eine Ausschweifung’ (1898) by Lou Andreas‐Salomé, and Gabriele Reuter's Ellen von der Weiden (1900) show how women writers of the fin de siècle engaged with the binary opposition of body and mind in Western…
Reinventing modes of dreaming’ and doing: Jacques Rancière and strategies for a new left
This article addresses two debates. First, there is the issue of how the left can (re)invigorate contemporary western democracies in the face of the growing apathy, disillusionment and violent antagonisms that emerge in the context of neo-liberal reforms, inequality, fundamentalism and terror. In positing the value of Jacques Rancière’s work to speak to this issue, it will also take up a position within a second debate over the precise implicatio…
Humanism from an agonistic perspective: Themes from the work of Bonnie Honig
From Nora to the BNP: Implication of Cavell's Critique of Rawls
This article examines Cavell's critique of Rawlsian citizenship, namely that Rawls' desire to seek a democratic way of life in which citizens can reassure themselves that their behaviour has been ‘above reproach’ reflects a distorted and hence inadequate conception of the demands of the moral life. Although the aim to be ‘above reproach’ was only expressed in Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’, I extend Stephen Mulhall's work to show that Cavell's conc…
Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany
Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth‐Century Germany ‐ Edited by Katharina Schütz Zell and The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare's Account of the Reformation of Geneva ‐ by Je…
Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Suffering and Domesticity: The Subversion of Sentimentalism in Three Stories by Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The fiction of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) is set firmly in the material reality of the Habsburg Empire. Although realist in its commitment to reflecting contemporary society and its values, it has often been ‘accused’ of sentimentalism. This article argues that while Ebner's short stories indeed adopt some sentimental tropes, this should not be regarded as detracting from the complexity of her work. Rather, it is complex and worthy of…
Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany
The literary history of early modern German convents is a much neglected field. Nuns' writings were rarely printed and generally only read within their own institution. This text is an overview of nuns' literary activities in this period.
Women as Historians: The Case of Early Modern German Convents
While writing by nuns features extensively in the history of medieval women’s literature, almost nothing is known about nuns, or their writings, in the early modern period. It is sometimes assumed that nuns stopped writing because of the changes which convents underwent in the sixteenth century as a result of the Reformation and Counter‐Reformation. This article attempts to question the assumption that there is no writing by nuns in the early mod…
Notes on the Solomon Islands
Note on a Stone-headed Mace from Rennell Island
Note on the Atoll of Ongtong Java or Lord Howe's Group in the Western Pacific
The Canoes of the British Solomon Islands
Notes on the Manufacture of the Malaita Shell Bead Money of the Solomon Group
I myself took the photograph herewith reproduced, and the tusks w'ere at that time standing on top of the heads, and not, as has been suggested, behind them.I cau guarantee that the altar was exactly as it appears and that the negative has undergone no retouching.I cannot remember whether there were any wooden spikes fixed in the holes in the crowns of the heads which supported the tusks, but if there were the white ants would soon have made shor…
Notes on Rennell Island
Notes on Leueneuwa, or Lord Howe's Group
The last castaways, from Tamana (2) and Arorai (2) arrived about twenty-five years ago, and were taken away in the Cristine in 1886.An albino native was observed
Native Ornaments from the Solomon Islands, Recently Presented to the British Museum by Mr. C. M. Woodford
nimistic " Sun-worship " in Norway."As a child I lived " (he says) " in the parish " of Vang, in Valdres, Norway.The parish is situated in a valley surrounded by imountains so high that the sun disappears for several weeks in the wiuter.The first " day %-hen it is seen again (I was told) old people used to fill a spoon with butter and " place it in the winlow, in order that the suin might ' eat' it."Can any of your readers tlhrow fuirther light o…
Notes on the Manufacture of the Malaita Shell Bead Money of the Solomon Group
I myself took the photograph herewith reproduced, and the tusks w'ere at that time standing on top of the heads, and not, as has been suggested, behind them.I cau guarantee that the altar was exactly as it appears and that the negative has undergone no retouching.I cannot remember whether there were any wooden spikes fixed in the holes in the crowns of the heads which supported the tusks, but if there were the white ants would soon have made shor…
Humanism from an agonistic perspective: Themes from the work of Bonnie Honig
Reinventing modes of dreaming’ and doing: Jacques Rancière and strategies for a new left
This article addresses two debates. First, there is the issue of how the left can (re)invigorate contemporary western democracies in the face of the growing apathy, disillusionment and violent antagonisms that emerge in the context of neo-liberal reforms, inequality, fundamentalism and terror. In positing the value of Jacques Rancière’s work to speak to this issue, it will also take up a position within a second debate over the precise implicatio…
The Canoes of the British Solomon Islands
From Nora to the BNP: Implication of Cavell's Critique of Rawls
This article examines Cavell's critique of Rawlsian citizenship, namely that Rawls' desire to seek a democratic way of life in which citizens can reassure themselves that their behaviour has been ‘above reproach’ reflects a distorted and hence inadequate conception of the demands of the moral life. Although the aim to be ‘above reproach’ was only expressed in Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’, I extend Stephen Mulhall's work to show that Cavell's conc…
Suffering and Domesticity: The Subversion of Sentimentalism in Three Stories by Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The fiction of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) is set firmly in the material reality of the Habsburg Empire. Although realist in its commitment to reflecting contemporary society and its values, it has often been ‘accused’ of sentimentalism. This article argues that while Ebner's short stories indeed adopt some sentimental tropes, this should not be regarded as detracting from the complexity of her work. Rather, it is complex and worthy of…
Notes on the Solomon Islands
The Gilbert Islands
Native Ornaments from the Solomon Islands, Recently Presented to the British Museum by Mr. C. M. Woodford
nimistic " Sun-worship " in Norway."As a child I lived " (he says) " in the parish " of Vang, in Valdres, Norway.The parish is situated in a valley surrounded by imountains so high that the sun disappears for several weeks in the wiuter.The first " day %-hen it is seen again (I was told) old people used to fill a spoon with butter and " place it in the winlow, in order that the suin might ' eat' it."Can any of your readers tlhrow fuirther light o…
Notes on Leueneuwa, or Lord Howe's Group
The last castaways, from Tamana (2) and Arorai (2) arrived about twenty-five years ago, and were taken away in the Cristine in 1886.An albino native was observed
Notes on Rennell Island
Notes on the Manufacture of the Malaita Shell Bead Money of the Solomon Group
I myself took the photograph herewith reproduced, and the tusks w'ere at that time standing on top of the heads, and not, as has been suggested, behind them.I cau guarantee that the altar was exactly as it appears and that the negative has undergone no retouching.I cannot remember whether there were any wooden spikes fixed in the holes in the crowns of the heads which supported the tusks, but if there were the white ants would soon have made shor…
Note on the Atoll of Ongtong Java or Lord Howe's Group in the Western Pacific
The Canoes of the British Solomon Islands
Note on a Stone-headed Mace from Rennell Island
Notes on the Solomon Islands
Women as Historians: The Case of Early Modern German Convents
While writing by nuns features extensively in the history of medieval women’s literature, almost nothing is known about nuns, or their writings, in the early modern period. It is sometimes assumed that nuns stopped writing because of the changes which convents underwent in the sixteenth century as a result of the Reformation and Counter‐Reformation. This article attempts to question the assumption that there is no writing by nuns in the early mod…
Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany
The literary history of early modern German convents is a much neglected field. Nuns' writings were rarely printed and generally only read within their own institution. This text is an overview of nuns' literary activities in this period.
Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Suffering and Domesticity: The Subversion of Sentimentalism in Three Stories by Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The fiction of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) is set firmly in the material reality of the Habsburg Empire. Although realist in its commitment to reflecting contemporary society and its values, it has often been ‘accused’ of sentimentalism. This article argues that while Ebner's short stories indeed adopt some sentimental tropes, this should not be regarded as detracting from the complexity of her work. Rather, it is complex and worthy of…
Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany
Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth‐Century Germany ‐ Edited by Katharina Schütz Zell and The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare's Account of the Reformation of Geneva ‐ by Je…
From Nora to the BNP: Implication of Cavell's Critique of Rawls
This article examines Cavell's critique of Rawlsian citizenship, namely that Rawls' desire to seek a democratic way of life in which citizens can reassure themselves that their behaviour has been ‘above reproach’ reflects a distorted and hence inadequate conception of the demands of the moral life. Although the aim to be ‘above reproach’ was only expressed in Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’, I extend Stephen Mulhall's work to show that Cavell's conc…
Humanism from an agonistic perspective: Themes from the work of Bonnie Honig
Reinventing modes of dreaming’ and doing: Jacques Rancière and strategies for a new left
This article addresses two debates. First, there is the issue of how the left can (re)invigorate contemporary western democracies in the face of the growing apathy, disillusionment and violent antagonisms that emerge in the context of neo-liberal reforms, inequality, fundamentalism and terror. In positing the value of Jacques Rancière’s work to speak to this issue, it will also take up a position within a second debate over the precise implicatio…
Female Desire and the Mind‐body Binary in Fin De Siècle Fiction by Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas‐salomé and Gabriele Reuter
In the late nineteenth century, women writers seek to emancipate the feminine subject from the plots of a phallocentric tradition which transmitted repressive models of femininity. The short stories ‘Werde, die Du bist’ (1894) by Hedwig Dohm, ‘Eine Ausschweifung’ (1898) by Lou Andreas‐Salomé, and Gabriele Reuter's Ellen von der Weiden (1900) show how women writers of the fin de siècle engaged with the binary opposition of body and mind in Western…
Critical Theory Today: Missing Emancipation
Axel Honneth and Jacques Rancière represent two different, but complementary post-Marxist traditions in political thought
Rethinking populism and democracy in politically turbulent times
The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of populist politics across the globe. The early 21st century saw the pink tide of left wing populism in Latin America, the Southern European populisms that rejected the politics of austerity after 2013, and the right wing populisms that now dominate not only European but global polities. Although each instance of populist politics is distinct, all share an appeal to the people, to the true people,…
Too left-wing or not populist enough? Using Laclau and Mouffe to rethink Corbynism and future left strategy in the UK
Refusing post-truth with Butler and Honig
This article argues that although post-truth is understood to pose a particular misogynistic threat to feminism, we cannot assume that feminists should simply oppose post-truth. The way the post-truth debate is constructed is problematic for feminism in three ways: it misconceives the relationship between democracy and truth; utilizes a questionable binary between reason and emotion; and propagates elitist assumptions about protecting democracy f…
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy
The UK Prevent strategy is strongly criticized: accused of racism, human rights violations, and demonization of the (Muslim) other. Outlining an original interpretation of these problems, the article draws on political theory to identify parallels between this controversy and Stanley Cavell's critique of John Rawls' Theory of Justice. Although aiming to avoid violence, Rawls limited the 'conversation of justice' in advance such that a democratic …
Queer Madonnas, Nonviolence, and the Macho Christian Right; or “How to Do Mariology Without Men”
This article asks whether Adriana Cavarero's invocation of the Christian Madonna to inspire a pacifist feminist ethics could help counter the ever-strengthening alliance between Conservative Christianity and the radical right which I refer to as "Macho Christianity."To flesh out Cavarero's undeveloped invocation of the Madonna's love as "non-stereotypical" I turn to queer and nondominant indigenous Mariologies to provide a novel reading that demo…
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