Victoria Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage
This article questions the miscarriage/abortion distinction to build solidarity across pregnancy experiences and endings. Drawing on anthropological research, it highlights how lived experiences blur this boundary and asks which frameworks can best acknowledge such ambiguity and support inclusive social and clinical practice. We explore how a certain kind of abortion – ‘termination for medical reasons’ or ‘TMFR’ – is already treated as contiguous…
Found Cluster
Every miscarriage is a work accident
This article explores the potentials of a materialist approach to miscarriage, taking Silvia Federici's provocation that ‘every miscarriage is a work accident’ as a catalyst. It is fifty years since Federici wrote this line in her renowned ‘Wages Against Housework’ manifesto, yet miscarriage has never been given full systematic analysis within the Wages for Housework theoretical corpus, nor the broader field of social reproduction theory. After s…
A Pregnant Pause
This article takes the rupturing of normative, linear, reproductive time that occurs in the event of miscarriage as a potentially generative philosophical moment—a catalyst to rethink pregnancy aside from the expectation of child-production. Pregnant time is usually imagined as a linear passage toward birth. Accordingly, the one who “miscarries” appears as suspended within an arrested journey that never arrived at its destination, or indeed, as e…
Vulnerability and the Politics of Care
The forgetting of Mary Wollstonecraft's religiosity
Religious concepts and themes are central to many of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings, yet rarely feature within popular representations of her life, work and legacy today. This paper examines the forgetting of Wollstonecraft’s religiosity in light of the broader narratives that western feminism circulates about its past and present, focusing particularly on the historiographical practices and temporal tropes that construct feminism as a quintessen…
Motherhood in Literature and Culture
Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death
People affected by prenatal death often grapple with some serious philosophical questions: What kind of life is it that dies before it is born? What has been lost, and how do we mourn a life that has never been lived in an external social world? Yet within academic philosophy, prenatal death is an almost entirely neglected issue. This is true even within feminist philosophy, where sustained attention has been given to gestation, birth, and reprod…
Narrative Time
Historical narratives are bound to archives and traces of the past, which provoke and give sustenance to the restless pursuit of past realities. Yet, historical narratives are equally dependent upon the work of configuration, which determines how traces of the past are taken up in the present, and thus how historical time is lived and conceived. The previous chapter examined the complex “two-way” temporality of the trace, focusing on the indirect…
Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History
Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time o
Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness
Susan Faludi's Backlash , first published in 1991, offers a compelling account of feminism being forced to repeat itself in an era hostile to its transformative potentials and ambitions. Twenty years on, this paper offers a philosophical reading of Faludi's text, unpacking the model of social and historical change that underlies the “backlash” thesis. It focuses specifically on the tension between Faludi's ideal model of social change as a moveme…
Memory and the Metaphysics of Music
This essay seeks to further elucidate and critically assess the distinct philosophical position of Christine Battersby through examining in closer detail her critique of Deleuze and Guattari. It begins by discussing Battersby's reading of Deleuze and Guattari's materialist metaphysics, which focuses on their evocation of the ‘refrain’ in A Thousand Plateaus. Through tracing their account of the material processes of repetition within the world of…
Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness
Susan Faludi's Backlash , first published in 1991, offers a compelling account of feminism being forced to repeat itself in an era hostile to its transformative potentials and ambitions. Twenty years on, this paper offers a philosophical reading of Faludi's text, unpacking the model of social and historical change that underlies the “backlash” thesis. It focuses specifically on the tension between Faludi's ideal model of social change as a moveme…
A Pregnant Pause
This article takes the rupturing of normative, linear, reproductive time that occurs in the event of miscarriage as a potentially generative philosophical moment—a catalyst to rethink pregnancy aside from the expectation of child-production. Pregnant time is usually imagined as a linear passage toward birth. Accordingly, the one who “miscarries” appears as suspended within an arrested journey that never arrived at its destination, or indeed, as e…
Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death
People affected by prenatal death often grapple with some serious philosophical questions: What kind of life is it that dies before it is born? What has been lost, and how do we mourn a life that has never been lived in an external social world? Yet within academic philosophy, prenatal death is an almost entirely neglected issue. This is true even within feminist philosophy, where sustained attention has been given to gestation, birth, and reprod…
Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage
This article questions the miscarriage/abortion distinction to build solidarity across pregnancy experiences and endings. Drawing on anthropological research, it highlights how lived experiences blur this boundary and asks which frameworks can best acknowledge such ambiguity and support inclusive social and clinical practice. We explore how a certain kind of abortion – ‘termination for medical reasons’ or ‘TMFR’ – is already treated as contiguous…
Memory and the Metaphysics of Music
This essay seeks to further elucidate and critically assess the distinct philosophical position of Christine Battersby through examining in closer detail her critique of Deleuze and Guattari. It begins by discussing Battersby's reading of Deleuze and Guattari's materialist metaphysics, which focuses on their evocation of the ‘refrain’ in A Thousand Plateaus. Through tracing their account of the material processes of repetition within the world of…
Backlash, Repetition, Untimeliness
Susan Faludi's Backlash , first published in 1991, offers a compelling account of feminism being forced to repeat itself in an era hostile to its transformative potentials and ambitions. Twenty years on, this paper offers a philosophical reading of Faludi's text, unpacking the model of social and historical change that underlies the “backlash” thesis. It focuses specifically on the tension between Faludi's ideal model of social change as a moveme…
Narrative Time
Historical narratives are bound to archives and traces of the past, which provoke and give sustenance to the restless pursuit of past realities. Yet, historical narratives are equally dependent upon the work of configuration, which determines how traces of the past are taken up in the present, and thus how historical time is lived and conceived. The previous chapter examined the complex “two-way” temporality of the trace, focusing on the indirect…
Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History
Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time o
Feminist Philosophy and Prenatal Death
People affected by prenatal death often grapple with some serious philosophical questions: What kind of life is it that dies before it is born? What has been lost, and how do we mourn a life that has never been lived in an external social world? Yet within academic philosophy, prenatal death is an almost entirely neglected issue. This is true even within feminist philosophy, where sustained attention has been given to gestation, birth, and reprod…
Motherhood in Literature and Culture
The forgetting of Mary Wollstonecraft's religiosity
Religious concepts and themes are central to many of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings, yet rarely feature within popular representations of her life, work and legacy today. This paper examines the forgetting of Wollstonecraft’s religiosity in light of the broader narratives that western feminism circulates about its past and present, focusing particularly on the historiographical practices and temporal tropes that construct feminism as a quintessen…
Vulnerability and the Politics of Care
A Pregnant Pause
This article takes the rupturing of normative, linear, reproductive time that occurs in the event of miscarriage as a potentially generative philosophical moment—a catalyst to rethink pregnancy aside from the expectation of child-production. Pregnant time is usually imagined as a linear passage toward birth. Accordingly, the one who “miscarries” appears as suspended within an arrested journey that never arrived at its destination, or indeed, as e…
Found Cluster
Every miscarriage is a work accident
This article explores the potentials of a materialist approach to miscarriage, taking Silvia Federici's provocation that ‘every miscarriage is a work accident’ as a catalyst. It is fifty years since Federici wrote this line in her renowned ‘Wages Against Housework’ manifesto, yet miscarriage has never been given full systematic analysis within the Wages for Housework theoretical corpus, nor the broader field of social reproduction theory. After s…
Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage
This article questions the miscarriage/abortion distinction to build solidarity across pregnancy experiences and endings. Drawing on anthropological research, it highlights how lived experiences blur this boundary and asks which frameworks can best acknowledge such ambiguity and support inclusive social and clinical practice. We explore how a certain kind of abortion – ‘termination for medical reasons’ or ‘TMFR’ – is already treated as contiguous…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Art (3 works)