Queering lesbian weirdness, romanticism – and the power of antisocial genius

Antu Sorainen

Queering lesbian weirdness, romanticism – and the power of antisocial genius

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Abstrakti

The storm and rage around the Avital Ronell case in the US and beyond confuses many of us while it has also produced a forum for a deeply reactive emotional response – and this has been a huge surprise to me – among critical queer/feminist scholars. These are the intellectuals whose outspoken task has been to go against the grain; to keep theorizing, analysing and ”scientifying” matters that patriarchal society, conservative (male-run) academy, and the populist right-wing political front have wanted to label as troublingly non-matter(ing), incorrectly ideological, or just unintelligible and therefore wrong, problematic, shameful and condemned.

Why, then, do so many coming from this brave intellectual queer/feminist community now seem to forget the complicated character and history of their own becoming as an academic community, as risk-takers in the contingent sphere of academic intelligibility, and focus their righteous or at least morally upper-handy attention on one (however possibly ethically wayward) person, a queer/lesbian feminist woman?

Alkuperäiskieli	englanti
Lehti	Queer Pain
Sivumäärä	8
Tila	Julkaistu - 4 syysk. 2018
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	Ei sovellu

Lisätietoja

Dr. Antu Sorainen, PhD, is Docent in Gender Studies, working at the University of Helsinki. She is the Director of the research team “CoreKin – Contrasting and Re-Imagining Margins of Kinship” (funded by the Academy of Finland, 2016-2020). Her current 3-year research project on Protolesbian Life History and Nationalist Sentiment in 1920-30s Finland is granted by the Cultural Fopundation of Finland (2019-2022). She has conducted empirical studies in the area of queer sexualities in the legal field. She is the co-author of a book on the conceptual history of “Sittlichkeit”, and has published recently on queer inheritance practices. Sorainen was an Academy Fellow at the Academy of Finland and the PI of the research project titled “Wills and Inheritance Practices in Sexually Marginalised Groups” (2014-2019). • Orcid.org/0000-0002-3956-8352

Tieteenalat

6160 Muut humanistiset tieteet
6122 Kirjallisuuden tutkimus

Pääsy asiakirjaan

https://queerpain.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/queering-lesbian-weirdness-romanticism-and-the-power-of-antisocial-genius/Lisenssi: Määrittelemätön

Queer Grief (research project initiative)
Sorainen, A. (Projektinjohtaja), Boyce, P. (Projektinjohtaja), Clarke, K. (Principal Investigator), Strong, T. (Osallistuja) & Lahti, A. (Osallistuja)
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2021
Projekti: Tutkimusprojekti
Protolesbian Life History and Nationalist Sentiment in the 1920-30s Finland, a SKR grant research project
Sorainen, A. (Projektinjohtaja)
SATY ry
01/09/2019 → 31/07/2024
Projekti: Tutkimusprojekti
CoreKin: Contrasting and Re-imagining Margins of Kinship
Sorainen, A. (Projektinjohtaja), Härkönen, H. (Osallistuja), Moring, A. (Osallistuja), Zhabenko, A. (Osallistuja), Avdeeva, A. (Osallistuja) & Heinonen, A. (Projektinjohtaja)
NOS-HS
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Projekti: Tutkimusprojekti

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Queering lesbian weirdness, romanticism – and the power of antisocial genius

Abstrakti

Lisätietoja

Tieteenalat

Pääsy asiakirjaan

Projektit

Queer Grief (research project initiative)

Protolesbian Life History and Nationalist Sentiment in the 1920-30s Finland, a SKR grant research project

CoreKin: Contrasting and Re-imagining Margins of Kinship

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