Inheriting womyn's land 1

Thinking-With' Feminist Lineages in a Messy Archive

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ID4367296
AuthorsKatelyn M Campbell (0009-0000-9214-0809, North Carolina State University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume26
Issue3
Pages565-580
Publication date2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001251327974
OpenAlexW4409404934
LanguageEN
References cited20

In the past several years, a new generation of feminist and queer theorists has helped to cultivate renewed attention to the work of 1970s lesbian theory and activism. This renewed attention requires careful engagement with contested archives, particularly when navigating racisms and biological essentialisms of the past that continue to haunt feminisms in the present. In this article, I ask what it means to inherit and care for the contested archive of the womyn's land movement and the potentialities it preserves for future feminist theorising while remaining committed to trans inclusion and antiracist and anticolonial praxis. Drawing from the papers of womyn's land culturemakers Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove, I argue for a more complex understanding of what it means to 'inherit' this work for feminists interested in lineages of land-based feminist thought. By more fulsomely accounting for the possibilities that emerge from non-biological and queer forms of intergenerational exchange at play on the land, I argue for the vitality of the 'messiness' of this archive as a source of its own feminist pedagogy, proposing a process of 'thinking-with' these archives as part of a web of engagements rather than a linear genealogy

Epistemology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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