Doing Laundry with the Terf
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4440367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Owens (0000-0002-8908-6001, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 549-565 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-10644029 |
| OpenAlex | W4386123425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist, is a contemporary configuration that has gained traction in this feminist political moment to encapsulate an imagined set of generational tensions among feminists and queers with respect to gender's essential and/or expansive possibilities. It is also loaded with negative affect. This essay traces the ways that TERF travels in feminist dialogue-often alongside "lesbian"-and argues that loud disavowals of TERFs accumulate into discursive routines that present as anti-anti-trans, but (and) primarily function to preserve a sense of the threatened status of lesbians
Aesthetics · Art · Expansive · Laundry · Lesbian · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |