E Mckenna
Biographic Data
| ID | 46464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Mckenna |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenna |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENNA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7024-843X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The white-painters of Cabbagetown
Toronto in the 1980s was embroiled in intense debates about the place of sex work in society. The passing of new legislation in 1985 criminalizing communication for the purposes of prostitution led to increased police harassment of outdoor sex workers. Within a gentrifying urban neighborhood, homeowners created a neighborhood organization, the South of Carlton Association, with the express purpose of collaborating with Metro Police and City Counc…
Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”
This article explores the relationship of shame to class and to desire in Michelle Tea's memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America . Through applying a class analytic to the framework of shame recently advanced by feminist, queer, postcolonial, and affect theorists, I foreground shame as central to the experience of being poor and queer, and examine shame as not only negative and positive, but as productive. I…
Double Melancholy
In his essay ‘The “Uncanny”’, Sigmund Freud claims that ‘the double was originally an insurance against the extinction of the self’. The author suggests that literary writing, particularly memoir, can perform a kind of doubling, enacting this ‘self-preservation’ through ‘self-observation’. In her memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, Jeannette Winterson seeks to convey a ‘doubleness at the heart of things’. The author argues that this ‘dou…
The Freedom to Choose”
In the second-wave women's movement in Canada (1965–1985), the rhetoric of “freedom” and “choice” occupied a prominent position in public discourses. Waged as rallying points to resist entrenched f
Eunuch as a gender identity after castration
Each year hundreds of thousands of males begin long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), i.e. chemical or surgical castration, to slow the progress of prostate cancer. ADT causes loss of muscle mass and body hair; genital shrinkage and erectile dysfunction; variable amounts of breast growth and the development of a characteristically post-menopausal female pattern of fat distribution. ADT also changes mood and affect, most conspicuously seen …
Eunuch as a gender identity after castration
Each year hundreds of thousands of males begin long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), i.e. chemical or surgical castration, to slow the progress of prostate cancer. ADT causes loss of muscle mass and body hair; genital shrinkage and erectile dysfunction; variable amounts of breast growth and the development of a characteristically post-menopausal female pattern of fat distribution. ADT also changes mood and affect, most conspicuously seen …
The Freedom to Choose”
In the second-wave women's movement in Canada (1965–1985), the rhetoric of “freedom” and “choice” occupied a prominent position in public discourses. Waged as rallying points to resist entrenched f
Eunuch as a gender identity after castration
Each year hundreds of thousands of males begin long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), i.e. chemical or surgical castration, to slow the progress of prostate cancer. ADT causes loss of muscle mass and body hair; genital shrinkage and erectile dysfunction; variable amounts of breast growth and the development of a characteristically post-menopausal female pattern of fat distribution. ADT also changes mood and affect, most conspicuously seen …
The Freedom to Choose”
In the second-wave women's movement in Canada (1965–1985), the rhetoric of “freedom” and “choice” occupied a prominent position in public discourses. Waged as rallying points to resist entrenched f
Double Melancholy
In his essay ‘The “Uncanny”’, Sigmund Freud claims that ‘the double was originally an insurance against the extinction of the self’. The author suggests that literary writing, particularly memoir, can perform a kind of doubling, enacting this ‘self-preservation’ through ‘self-observation’. In her memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, Jeannette Winterson seeks to convey a ‘doubleness at the heart of things’. The author argues that this ‘dou…
Everything Being Tangled Up in Every Other Thing”
This article explores the relationship of shame to class and to desire in Michelle Tea's memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America . Through applying a class analytic to the framework of shame recently advanced by feminist, queer, postcolonial, and affect theorists, I foreground shame as central to the experience of being poor and queer, and examine shame as not only negative and positive, but as productive. I…
The white-painters of Cabbagetown
Toronto in the 1980s was embroiled in intense debates about the place of sex work in society. The passing of new legislation in 1985 criminalizing communication for the purposes of prostitution led to increased police harassment of outdoor sex workers. Within a gentrifying urban neighborhood, homeowners created a neighborhood organization, the South of Carlton Association, with the express purpose of collaborating with Metro Police and City Counc…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Art (2 works)