Emily Cousens
Biographic Data
| ID | 816137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Cousens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Cousens |
| SIGNATURE | COUSENS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7571-3705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship, the lesbian feminism articulated by a community of femme‐for‐femme trans femmes in the 1970s constitutes…
Virginia Prince, Robert Stoller and the Trans Feminist Intellectual History of the Sex/Gender Distinction
Scholars have begun to genealogize the sex/gender distinction, pointing out that it was not a second-wave feminist invention, but in fact has its roots in the clinical research of US sexologists. However, the influence of trans individuals on the development of these clinicians' thought tends to go unacknowledged. Beginning with correspondence between Virginia Prince, a trans pharmacologist, and Robert Stoller, an influential psychiatrist, this p…
S Transvestite Taxonomies and the New Queer Frontier
According to Kadji Amin, vernacular discourses in recent years have "exploded Butler's heterosexual matrix in a way hitherto unimaginable" (2023: 91-2). Yet neither queer nor transvernacular taxonomies are new, and the separation of sex, gender and sexuality has been a contested topic among trans subcultures since at least the 1950s. Combining original archival research with feminist, queer and trans philosophes of gender, this paper argues that,…
Entering the archive of second‐wave trans feminist print culture: The journal of male feminism
Common stories of second‐wave feminism equate the period either explicitly or by reference to its presumed biological essentialism, with trans‐exclusionary feminism. This article deep‐dives into issues published between 1977 and 1979 of the Journal of Male Feminism , an underground newsletter for a predominantly North American‐based male‐to‐female (M‐T‐F) cross‐dressing community. It argues that these texts contain a rich set of theoretical resou…
Living a Feminist Life
Book Review of Sara Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life
Anderson's Ethical Vulnerability: Animating Feminist Responses to Sexual Violence
Pamela Sue Anderson argues for an ethical vulnerability which “activates an openness to becoming changed” that “can make possible a relational accountability to one another on ethical matters”. In this essay I pursue Anderson’s solicitation that there is a positive politics to be developed from acknowledging and affirming vulnerability. I propose that this politics is one which has a specific relevance for animating the terms of feminist response…
Increasing Gender Diversity in Higher Education Leadership: The Role of Executive Search Firms
Women are under-represented in leadership roles in United Kingdom Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Existing scholarship focuses on institutional barriers, which include cognitive bias and entrenched homosocial cultures, rather than external factors such as the use of executive search firms (ESFs) in recruitment and selection. Recent research indicates that the use of ESFs is increasing for senior HEI appointments. This analysis offers insigh…
Entering the archive of second‐wave trans feminist print culture: The journal of male feminism
Common stories of second‐wave feminism equate the period either explicitly or by reference to its presumed biological essentialism, with trans‐exclusionary feminism. This article deep‐dives into issues published between 1977 and 1979 of the Journal of Male Feminism , an underground newsletter for a predominantly North American‐based male‐to‐female (M‐T‐F) cross‐dressing community. It argues that these texts contain a rich set of theoretical resou…
Increasing Gender Diversity in Higher Education Leadership: The Role of Executive Search Firms
Women are under-represented in leadership roles in United Kingdom Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Existing scholarship focuses on institutional barriers, which include cognitive bias and entrenched homosocial cultures, rather than external factors such as the use of executive search firms (ESFs) in recruitment and selection. Recent research indicates that the use of ESFs is increasing for senior HEI appointments. This analysis offers insigh…
Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship, the lesbian feminism articulated by a community of femme‐for‐femme trans femmes in the 1970s constitutes…
Virginia Prince, Robert Stoller and the Trans Feminist Intellectual History of the Sex/Gender Distinction
Scholars have begun to genealogize the sex/gender distinction, pointing out that it was not a second-wave feminist invention, but in fact has its roots in the clinical research of US sexologists. However, the influence of trans individuals on the development of these clinicians' thought tends to go unacknowledged. Beginning with correspondence between Virginia Prince, a trans pharmacologist, and Robert Stoller, an influential psychiatrist, this p…
S Transvestite Taxonomies and the New Queer Frontier
According to Kadji Amin, vernacular discourses in recent years have "exploded Butler's heterosexual matrix in a way hitherto unimaginable" (2023: 91-2). Yet neither queer nor transvernacular taxonomies are new, and the separation of sex, gender and sexuality has been a contested topic among trans subcultures since at least the 1950s. Combining original archival research with feminist, queer and trans philosophes of gender, this paper argues that,…
Increasing Gender Diversity in Higher Education Leadership: The Role of Executive Search Firms
Women are under-represented in leadership roles in United Kingdom Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Existing scholarship focuses on institutional barriers, which include cognitive bias and entrenched homosocial cultures, rather than external factors such as the use of executive search firms (ESFs) in recruitment and selection. Recent research indicates that the use of ESFs is increasing for senior HEI appointments. This analysis offers insigh…
Living a Feminist Life
Book Review of Sara Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life
Anderson's Ethical Vulnerability: Animating Feminist Responses to Sexual Violence
Pamela Sue Anderson argues for an ethical vulnerability which “activates an openness to becoming changed” that “can make possible a relational accountability to one another on ethical matters”. In this essay I pursue Anderson’s solicitation that there is a positive politics to be developed from acknowledging and affirming vulnerability. I propose that this politics is one which has a specific relevance for animating the terms of feminist response…
Entering the archive of second‐wave trans feminist print culture: The journal of male feminism
Common stories of second‐wave feminism equate the period either explicitly or by reference to its presumed biological essentialism, with trans‐exclusionary feminism. This article deep‐dives into issues published between 1977 and 1979 of the Journal of Male Feminism , an underground newsletter for a predominantly North American‐based male‐to‐female (M‐T‐F) cross‐dressing community. It argues that these texts contain a rich set of theoretical resou…
Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship, the lesbian feminism articulated by a community of femme‐for‐femme trans femmes in the 1970s constitutes…
Virginia Prince, Robert Stoller and the Trans Feminist Intellectual History of the Sex/Gender Distinction
Scholars have begun to genealogize the sex/gender distinction, pointing out that it was not a second-wave feminist invention, but in fact has its roots in the clinical research of US sexologists. However, the influence of trans individuals on the development of these clinicians' thought tends to go unacknowledged. Beginning with correspondence between Virginia Prince, a trans pharmacologist, and Robert Stoller, an influential psychiatrist, this p…
S Transvestite Taxonomies and the New Queer Frontier
According to Kadji Amin, vernacular discourses in recent years have "exploded Butler's heterosexual matrix in a way hitherto unimaginable" (2023: 91-2). Yet neither queer nor transvernacular taxonomies are new, and the separation of sex, gender and sexuality has been a contested topic among trans subcultures since at least the 1950s. Combining original archival research with feminist, queer and trans philosophes of gender, this paper argues that,…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works)