Considering Emma Goldman

Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive

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ID2706368
AuthorsClare Hemmings (0000-0003-1253-4547, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages304
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueConsidering Emma Goldman (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822372257
OpenAlexW2768550481
Open LibraryOL29786362M
ISBN9780822372257
LanguageEN
Citations received29

In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces them, finding them to be helpful in formulating a new queer feminist praxis. Mining three overlapping archives-Goldman's own writings, her historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in those archives -Hemmings shows how serious engagement with Goldman's political ambivalences opens up larger questions surrounding feminist historiography, affect, fantasy, and knowledge production. Moreover, she explores her personal affinity for Goldman to illuminate the role that affective investment plays in shaping feminist storytelling. By considering Goldman in all her contradictions and complexity, Hemmings presents a queer feminist response to the ambivalences that also saturate contemporary queer feminist race theories

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Fantasy · Human sexuality · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Storytelling · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Anarchism · biography · emma Goldman (1869-1940) · Feminist theory · Women anarchists · Women's rights

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