The P*ssy Missile Has Launched
Free Speech Effects of the Women's March as Prelude to #MeToo, and With a Coda1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4577362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill Gentile (0000-0002-6117-1781, American Institute for Psychoanalysis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 256-261 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2018.1531518 |
| OpenAlex | W2900541372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay traces the unfolding of vaginal and vulvic expressive topography from the Women’s March, through the grassroots strikes on International Women’s Day, to #ShePersisted, and, most momentously, to the emergence of #MeToo and the eruptive feminine. At the same time, it traces the movement from semiotic confinement to the emergence of a space, a third, for the porous elemental feminine to resist, and to allure, by virtue of her inappropriable freedom. The vaginal symbolic is a quintessential marker of that postbinary, elusive, enigmatic “space between,” a borderspace that operates beyond patriarchy. As the unconscious is untamable, this space is beyond domestication. It is not accidental that the Trump era is characterized by a preoccupation with borders, immigrants, walls, reproductive surveillance, and a general fear of feminine space. #MeToo’s survival and revolutionary and emancipatory potential lie in its opening of this lawful vaginality, and in erecting a postpatriarchal phallic symbol
Grassroots · Patriarchy · Phallic stage · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |