Tanya Serisier
Biographic Data
| ID | 794774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanya Serisier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Serisier |
| SIGNATURE | SERISIER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1656-5474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Against Conferencing-as-usual in times of Genocide: Criminology, Complicity, and Sexual Violence in Palestine
No abstract available
Fight the patriarchy? Get rich! 'Financial feminism' as feminist neoliberalism
The 'financial feminism' movement invites us to fight patriarchy by 'believing in the financial equality of women', increasing our financial literacy, and investing according to principles of sustainability and impact. As author and podcaster Tori Dunlap puts it, 'the best way to fight the patriarchy? Get rich!'. This article investigates the financial feminist refrain that financial feminism is 'just feminism applied to finance'. We interrogate …
‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’: Prima Facie and the cruel optimism of feminist legal advocacy
In her play Prima Facie, playwright and lawyer Suzie Miller uses theatre to critique legal responses to sexual violence. This article thus offers an analysis of the play as both feminist theatre and feminist advocacy. We examine the rhetorical and performative strategies it deploys, arguing that they are effective because they mobilise long-standing feminist tropes which use a representative figure of the traumatised victim and the repetition of …
Publishing, Precarious Labour Relations and Sexual Violence in Academia
A Precondition for Justice: Political Listening, Feminism and Sexual Violence
Questions of speech, silencing and injustice have long been central to feminist understandings of sexual violence, and to activism around it. Listening, and its relationship to justice, in contrast, remains under-explored by feminist scholars and activists. In this article, I argue for a feminist politics of listening as an essential precondition for justice around sexual violence. I argue that feminist engagements with listening have tended to b…
Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research
Recent years have seen increased attention in both research and policy towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners as a group with distinct needs. This has been driven by wider political recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and research suggesting that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners are particularly ‘vulnerable’ to bullying and abuse within prison settings. Much of this research, and the poli…
From Date Rape Jeopardy to (Not) Drinking Tea: Consent Humour, Ridicule and Cultural Change
This article traces a cultural shift in ‘consent humour’ by contrasting a Saturday Night Live skit that aired in 1993 mocking affirmative consent with the 2015 ‘Tea and Consent’ video produced by the Thames Valley police, in 2015, which insists that ‘consent is everything’. By reflecting on the cultural contexts and the ‘humour ideologies’ that underlie these examples, the article rejects a simple teleological interpretation of cultural change. I…
Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics
Book synopsis: Speaking Out Against Sexual Vioelnce is the first critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape. The book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women’s personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political …
Speaking out, and beginning to be heard: Feminism, survivor narratives and representations of rape in the 1980s
This article challenges common conceptions of the 1980s as simply a period of ‘backlash’ for feminism. Instead, it argues that remediatory cultural activism by feminists shifted discussion and understandings of rape in this decade in complex and contradictory ways. More space was given to feminist and survivor voices, even as survivors continued to be denied cultural authority. In addition, a lack of intersectional awareness allowed feminist unde…
Kerry Carrington, Feminism and Global Justice
Review of Kerry Carrington, Feminism and Global Justice, Routledge: New York, 2014, 204 pp. (including index): 978-0415711128, $47.95 (pbk)
The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting
Who Was Andrea? Writing Oneself as a Feminist Icon
This article explores the construction of Andrea Dworkin as a public persona, or a ‘feminist icon’, revered by some and demonized by others. It argues that in both her fiction and non-fiction, Dworkin engaged in a process of writing herself as an exceptional woman, a ‘feminist militant’ as she describes herself in the subheading of her 2002 memoir, Heartbreak. The article illustrates Dworkin’s autobiographical logic of exceptionalism by comparing…
Video Activism and the ambiguities of counter-surveillance
This paper examines the use of visual technologies by political activists in protest situations to monitor police conduct. Using interview data with Australian video activists this paper seeks to understand the motivations, techniques and outcomes of video activism, and its relationship to counter-surveillance and police accountability. Our data also indicated that there have been significant transformations in the organization and deployment of …
Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics
A discourse of crisis surrounds issues of sex and gender in the Australian public sphere as is seen in publications in recent years which portray sex and sexuality as crisis-ridden. The article explores this 'crisis' from the perspective of queer and feminist lens and argues that such a narrative of crisis and danger depicts a wider cultural anxiety around sex and the sexualistion of children
Remembering Anita: Rape and the Politics of Commemoration
Theoretical Stories
A review of Clare Hemmings, Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke 2011) and Janet Halley & Andrew Parker (eds.) After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (Duke 2011
Video Activism and the ambiguities of counter-surveillance
This paper examines the use of visual technologies by political activists in protest situations to monitor police conduct. Using interview data with Australian video activists this paper seeks to understand the motivations, techniques and outcomes of video activism, and its relationship to counter-surveillance and police accountability. Our data also indicated that there have been significant transformations in the organization and deployment of …
Speaking out, and beginning to be heard: Feminism, survivor narratives and representations of rape in the 1980s
This article challenges common conceptions of the 1980s as simply a period of ‘backlash’ for feminism. Instead, it argues that remediatory cultural activism by feminists shifted discussion and understandings of rape in this decade in complex and contradictory ways. More space was given to feminist and survivor voices, even as survivors continued to be denied cultural authority. In addition, a lack of intersectional awareness allowed feminist unde…
Publishing, Precarious Labour Relations and Sexual Violence in Academia
A Precondition for Justice: Political Listening, Feminism and Sexual Violence
Questions of speech, silencing and injustice have long been central to feminist understandings of sexual violence, and to activism around it. Listening, and its relationship to justice, in contrast, remains under-explored by feminist scholars and activists. In this article, I argue for a feminist politics of listening as an essential precondition for justice around sexual violence. I argue that feminist engagements with listening have tended to b…
Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research
Recent years have seen increased attention in both research and policy towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners as a group with distinct needs. This has been driven by wider political recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and research suggesting that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners are particularly ‘vulnerable’ to bullying and abuse within prison settings. Much of this research, and the poli…
From Date Rape Jeopardy to (Not) Drinking Tea: Consent Humour, Ridicule and Cultural Change
This article traces a cultural shift in ‘consent humour’ by contrasting a Saturday Night Live skit that aired in 1993 mocking affirmative consent with the 2015 ‘Tea and Consent’ video produced by the Thames Valley police, in 2015, which insists that ‘consent is everything’. By reflecting on the cultural contexts and the ‘humour ideologies’ that underlie these examples, the article rejects a simple teleological interpretation of cultural change. I…
Who Was Andrea? Writing Oneself as a Feminist Icon
This article explores the construction of Andrea Dworkin as a public persona, or a ‘feminist icon’, revered by some and demonized by others. It argues that in both her fiction and non-fiction, Dworkin engaged in a process of writing herself as an exceptional woman, a ‘feminist militant’ as she describes herself in the subheading of her 2002 memoir, Heartbreak. The article illustrates Dworkin’s autobiographical logic of exceptionalism by comparing…
Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics
A discourse of crisis surrounds issues of sex and gender in the Australian public sphere as is seen in publications in recent years which portray sex and sexuality as crisis-ridden. The article explores this 'crisis' from the perspective of queer and feminist lens and argues that such a narrative of crisis and danger depicts a wider cultural anxiety around sex and the sexualistion of children
Remembering Anita: Rape and the Politics of Commemoration
Theoretical Stories
A review of Clare Hemmings, Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (Duke 2011) and Janet Halley & Andrew Parker (eds.) After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (Duke 2011
Remembering Anita: Rape and the Politics of Commemoration
Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics
A discourse of crisis surrounds issues of sex and gender in the Australian public sphere as is seen in publications in recent years which portray sex and sexuality as crisis-ridden. The article explores this 'crisis' from the perspective of queer and feminist lens and argues that such a narrative of crisis and danger depicts a wider cultural anxiety around sex and the sexualistion of children
Video Activism and the ambiguities of counter-surveillance
This paper examines the use of visual technologies by political activists in protest situations to monitor police conduct. Using interview data with Australian video activists this paper seeks to understand the motivations, techniques and outcomes of video activism, and its relationship to counter-surveillance and police accountability. Our data also indicated that there have been significant transformations in the organization and deployment of …
Who Was Andrea? Writing Oneself as a Feminist Icon
This article explores the construction of Andrea Dworkin as a public persona, or a ‘feminist icon’, revered by some and demonized by others. It argues that in both her fiction and non-fiction, Dworkin engaged in a process of writing herself as an exceptional woman, a ‘feminist militant’ as she describes herself in the subheading of her 2002 memoir, Heartbreak. The article illustrates Dworkin’s autobiographical logic of exceptionalism by comparing…
The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting
Kerry Carrington, Feminism and Global Justice
Review of Kerry Carrington, Feminism and Global Justice, Routledge: New York, 2014, 204 pp. (including index): 978-0415711128, $47.95 (pbk)
Speaking out, and beginning to be heard: Feminism, survivor narratives and representations of rape in the 1980s
This article challenges common conceptions of the 1980s as simply a period of ‘backlash’ for feminism. Instead, it argues that remediatory cultural activism by feminists shifted discussion and understandings of rape in this decade in complex and contradictory ways. More space was given to feminist and survivor voices, even as survivors continued to be denied cultural authority. In addition, a lack of intersectional awareness allowed feminist unde…
Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics
Book synopsis: Speaking Out Against Sexual Vioelnce is the first critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape. The book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women’s personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political …
Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research
Recent years have seen increased attention in both research and policy towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners as a group with distinct needs. This has been driven by wider political recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and research suggesting that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners are particularly ‘vulnerable’ to bullying and abuse within prison settings. Much of this research, and the poli…
From Date Rape Jeopardy to (Not) Drinking Tea: Consent Humour, Ridicule and Cultural Change
This article traces a cultural shift in ‘consent humour’ by contrasting a Saturday Night Live skit that aired in 1993 mocking affirmative consent with the 2015 ‘Tea and Consent’ video produced by the Thames Valley police, in 2015, which insists that ‘consent is everything’. By reflecting on the cultural contexts and the ‘humour ideologies’ that underlie these examples, the article rejects a simple teleological interpretation of cultural change. I…
‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’: Prima Facie and the cruel optimism of feminist legal advocacy
In her play Prima Facie, playwright and lawyer Suzie Miller uses theatre to critique legal responses to sexual violence. This article thus offers an analysis of the play as both feminist theatre and feminist advocacy. We examine the rhetorical and performative strategies it deploys, arguing that they are effective because they mobilise long-standing feminist tropes which use a representative figure of the traumatised victim and the repetition of …
Publishing, Precarious Labour Relations and Sexual Violence in Academia
A Precondition for Justice: Political Listening, Feminism and Sexual Violence
Questions of speech, silencing and injustice have long been central to feminist understandings of sexual violence, and to activism around it. Listening, and its relationship to justice, in contrast, remains under-explored by feminist scholars and activists. In this article, I argue for a feminist politics of listening as an essential precondition for justice around sexual violence. I argue that feminist engagements with listening have tended to b…
Against Conferencing-as-usual in times of Genocide: Criminology, Complicity, and Sexual Violence in Palestine
No abstract available
Fight the patriarchy? Get rich! 'Financial feminism' as feminist neoliberalism
The 'financial feminism' movement invites us to fight patriarchy by 'believing in the financial equality of women', increasing our financial literacy, and investing according to principles of sustainability and impact. As author and podcaster Tori Dunlap puts it, 'the best way to fight the patriarchy? Get rich!'. This article investigates the financial feminist refrain that financial feminism is 'just feminism applied to finance'. We interrogate …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Feminism (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Criminology (5 works)