Elizabeth Currans
Biographic Data
| ID | 703501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Currans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Currans |
| SIGNATURE | CURRANS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7943-3797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Becoming Mermaid
The mermaid is a hybrid being, a product of human imagination that has dual potentiality; she can either uphold or challenge heteropatriarchal and able-bodied norms. She also has the potential to highlight human relations with more-than-human life. This paper explores the process of becoming mermaid in four performances that reinforce and/or challenge normate embodiment to varying degrees. One, at Weeki Wachee Springs, remains firmly tied to norm…
Forging gender and racial solidarities at trans-inclusive women’s festivals
This article explores the interweaving of successes and failures at trans-inclusive women's festivals. I analyze conflicts that occurred at the Mystical Womxn's Magic Festival and the Ohio Lesbian Festival. In the process, I demonstrate that working across racial and gender divides in these spaces is possible but only if we understand that solidarity is processual and relational but also, quite simply, hard work. This labor requires acknowledging…
Creating the community I want to be part of’
This article explores a small city’s response to the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. Love, Resilience, Action Ypsilanti (LRAY) focused on community-building and the social justice history of Ypsilanti, Michigan to create a queer-affirming feminist event that intentionally referenced and diverged from national Women’s Marches. In exploring intersectional social justice organising by a queer-dominated feminist group, I argue that orga…
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
This book examines how women’s public demonstrations claim and transform public space. Focusing on seven examples--Take Back the Night Marches, Dyke Marches, SlutWalks, Women in Black Vigils, CODEPINK direct actions, the March for Women’s Lives, and the Million Mom March--the book explores the ways that women use gender to physically and affective transform public space, through a process of “holding space” for each other. Marching Dykes, Liberat…
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
"From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations...whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues...share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement. Elizabeth Currans blends feminist, queer, and critical race theory with performance studi…
Feminist Currents
Lesbian organizing
This introduction explores three key themes that emerge in the contributions to this issue about Lesbian Organizations and Organizing: the difficulty of defining who is included and excluded in lesbian organizing, the role of community-building and maintenance, and the importance of history in understanding current organizing
Arts-based research sharing and disability culture methods
In this mosaic, three of us assemble writings about an international arts-based research symposium, Disability/Culture: New Grounds (The University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies Conf
Reflections
Demonstrating Peace Countertopographically
Demonstrating Peace Countertopographically:Women in Black’s Solidarity at a Distance Elizabeth Currans (bio) Just before 5:30 p.m. on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, five women gathered outside the central Manhattan Public Library where Forty-First Street meets Fifth Avenue. All wore black, some head to toe, some with bare shoulders and arms. They formed a silent line facing rush hour pedestrian and automobile traffic holding a large black banner re…
Feminist Currents
Forced to Care
Book Review| December 01 2011 Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America / Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in AmericaGlenn, Evelyn Nakano Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010 262 pp., $29.95 (cloth)Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of CareBoris, Eileen and Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010xi…
Lydia's Open Door
Book Review| September 01 2010 Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel Patty Kelly Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 xxii + 270 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Elizabeth G. Currans Elizabeth G. Currans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (3): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
Instituting heteronormative belief in the law
In this paper I discuss the rhetoric about family utilised by the advocates of California's ‘Protection of Marriage Initiative,’ Proposition 22, which appeared on the March 2000 primary election ballot. The viability of definitions of rights and family that presuppose heterosexuality used in this proposition show the connection between religion and politics in the United States. I argue here that the heterosexist belief that creates such laws als…
Making War, Not Love
Reviewed by: Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor Elizabeth Currans Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor. By Emil A. Draitser. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 308, introduction, notes, index.) Making War, Not Love is an excellent resource for raunchy Russian humor. In his latest exploration of jokelore in Russia, Emil Draitser compiles an array of jokes and chastushkas (rural folk rhym…
Making War, Not Love
Reclaiming the Spirit
Book Review| October 01 1999 Reclaiming the Spirit: Gay Men and Lesbians Come to Terms with Religion Reclaiming the Spirit: Gay Men and Lesbians Come to Terms with Religion. By David Shallenberger. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 304 pages. $26.00 cloth. Elizabeth Currans Elizabeth Currans University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 3 (1): 179–180. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1…
Creating the community I want to be part of’
This article explores a small city’s response to the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. Love, Resilience, Action Ypsilanti (LRAY) focused on community-building and the social justice history of Ypsilanti, Michigan to create a queer-affirming feminist event that intentionally referenced and diverged from national Women’s Marches. In exploring intersectional social justice organising by a queer-dominated feminist group, I argue that orga…
Forging gender and racial solidarities at trans-inclusive women’s festivals
This article explores the interweaving of successes and failures at trans-inclusive women's festivals. I analyze conflicts that occurred at the Mystical Womxn's Magic Festival and the Ohio Lesbian Festival. In the process, I demonstrate that working across racial and gender divides in these spaces is possible but only if we understand that solidarity is processual and relational but also, quite simply, hard work. This labor requires acknowledging…
Feminist Currents
Instituting heteronormative belief in the law
In this paper I discuss the rhetoric about family utilised by the advocates of California's ‘Protection of Marriage Initiative,’ Proposition 22, which appeared on the March 2000 primary election ballot. The viability of definitions of rights and family that presuppose heterosexuality used in this proposition show the connection between religion and politics in the United States. I argue here that the heterosexist belief that creates such laws als…
Reclaiming the Spirit
Book Review| October 01 1999 Reclaiming the Spirit: Gay Men and Lesbians Come to Terms with Religion Reclaiming the Spirit: Gay Men and Lesbians Come to Terms with Religion. By David Shallenberger. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 304 pages. $26.00 cloth. Elizabeth Currans Elizabeth Currans University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 3 (1): 179–180. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1…
Making War, Not Love
Reviewed by: Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor Elizabeth Currans Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor. By Emil A. Draitser. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 308, introduction, notes, index.) Making War, Not Love is an excellent resource for raunchy Russian humor. In his latest exploration of jokelore in Russia, Emil Draitser compiles an array of jokes and chastushkas (rural folk rhym…
Making War, Not Love
Instituting heteronormative belief in the law
In this paper I discuss the rhetoric about family utilised by the advocates of California's ‘Protection of Marriage Initiative,’ Proposition 22, which appeared on the March 2000 primary election ballot. The viability of definitions of rights and family that presuppose heterosexuality used in this proposition show the connection between religion and politics in the United States. I argue here that the heterosexist belief that creates such laws als…
Lydia's Open Door
Book Review| September 01 2010 Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel Patty Kelly Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 xxii + 270 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Elizabeth G. Currans Elizabeth G. Currans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (3): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2010-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
Forced to Care
Book Review| December 01 2011 Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America / Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in AmericaGlenn, Evelyn Nakano Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010 262 pp., $29.95 (cloth)Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of CareBoris, Eileen and Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010xi…
Feminist Currents
Demonstrating Peace Countertopographically
Demonstrating Peace Countertopographically:Women in Black’s Solidarity at a Distance Elizabeth Currans (bio) Just before 5:30 p.m. on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, five women gathered outside the central Manhattan Public Library where Forty-First Street meets Fifth Avenue. All wore black, some head to toe, some with bare shoulders and arms. They formed a silent line facing rush hour pedestrian and automobile traffic holding a large black banner re…
Arts-based research sharing and disability culture methods
In this mosaic, three of us assemble writings about an international arts-based research symposium, Disability/Culture: New Grounds (The University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies Conf
Reflections
Lesbian organizing
This introduction explores three key themes that emerge in the contributions to this issue about Lesbian Organizations and Organizing: the difficulty of defining who is included and excluded in lesbian organizing, the role of community-building and maintenance, and the importance of history in understanding current organizing
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
This book examines how women’s public demonstrations claim and transform public space. Focusing on seven examples--Take Back the Night Marches, Dyke Marches, SlutWalks, Women in Black Vigils, CODEPINK direct actions, the March for Women’s Lives, and the Million Mom March--the book explores the ways that women use gender to physically and affective transform public space, through a process of “holding space” for each other. Marching Dykes, Liberat…
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
"From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations...whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues...share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement. Elizabeth Currans blends feminist, queer, and critical race theory with performance studi…
Feminist Currents
Creating the community I want to be part of’
This article explores a small city’s response to the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. Love, Resilience, Action Ypsilanti (LRAY) focused on community-building and the social justice history of Ypsilanti, Michigan to create a queer-affirming feminist event that intentionally referenced and diverged from national Women’s Marches. In exploring intersectional social justice organising by a queer-dominated feminist group, I argue that orga…
Forging gender and racial solidarities at trans-inclusive women’s festivals
This article explores the interweaving of successes and failures at trans-inclusive women's festivals. I analyze conflicts that occurred at the Mystical Womxn's Magic Festival and the Ohio Lesbian Festival. In the process, I demonstrate that working across racial and gender divides in these spaces is possible but only if we understand that solidarity is processual and relational but also, quite simply, hard work. This labor requires acknowledging…
Becoming Mermaid
The mermaid is a hybrid being, a product of human imagination that has dual potentiality; she can either uphold or challenge heteropatriarchal and able-bodied norms. She also has the potential to highlight human relations with more-than-human life. This paper explores the process of becoming mermaid in four performances that reinforce and/or challenge normate embodiment to varying degrees. One, at Weeki Wachee Springs, remains firmly tied to norm…
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