Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979–1999. By Lorraine  Bayard de Volo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv+293. $24.95 (paper).

2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (5) ◽  
pp. 1139-1141
Author(s):  
Amy Lind
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Johns Hopkins University

scholarly journals Reclaiming Romani-ness

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioanida Costache
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemic Systems ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Drawing on theories of identity postulated by cultural theorists, scholars of gender identity, and critical race theorists, I explore issues of identity politics and “Otherness” as they pertain to Romani identity, history and activism. By critiquing the latent bifurcation of identity and subjectivity in Judith Butler’s theory of performativity as well as her explicit adherence to universalism, I begin to outline a (post-Hegelian) hermeneutic in which narratives of self enable political processes of self-determination against symbolic and epistemic systems of racialization and minoritization.[1] Roma identity both serves as an oppressive social category while at the same time empowering people for whom a shared ethnic group provides a sense of solidarity and community. In re-conceptualizing, reimagining and re-claiming Romani-ness, we can make movements towards outlining a new Romani subjectivity – a subjectivity that is firmly rooted in counterhistories of Roma, with porous boundaries that both celebrate our diversity and foster solidarity. I come to the subject of Romani identity from an understanding that our racialized and gendered identities are both performed and embodied – forming part of the horizon from which we make meaning of the world. I wish to recast the discourse surrounding Romani identity as hybridized and multicultural, as well as, following Glissant, embedded into a pluritopic notion of history.

Trans Issues

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Perriam ◽  
Darren Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Intersex Identity

The chapter examines trans films and their reception. It draws on philosophical and theoretical texts about trans and intersex identity politics. It reviews trans activism as related to France and Spain and the place of trans films in LGBTQ festivals. In the main analysis some respondents are seen to express a negotiated form of empathy that transmits their solidarity with the issues portrayed while underlining their difference from the films’ trans subjects. Other participants are shown to identify accounts that resonate with their own journeys towards acceptance and emancipation. Particularities of national culture and contexts are little mentioned by respondents and the chapter suggests that this attests to the transnational relevance and salience of the films’ broader discourses on gender identity.

Identity Politics in Australian Context

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENISE VARNEY
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Feminist Theatre ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
And Gender

Identity mobilises feminist politics in Australia and shapes discursive and theatrical practices. Energised by the affirmative politics of hope, celebration and unity, Australian feminism is also motivated by injustice, prejudice and loss, particularly among Indigenous women and minorities. During the 1970s, when feminist theatre opened up creative spaces on the margins of Australian theatre, women identified with each other on the basis of an unproblematized gender identity, a commitment to socialist collectivism and theatre as a mode of self-representation. The emphasis on shared experience, collectivism and gender unity gave way in the 1980s to a more nuanced critical awareness of inequalities and divisions among women based on sexuality, class, race and ethnicity. My discussion spans broadly the period from the 1970s to the present and concludes with some commentary on recent twists and turns in identity politics.

Queer Anomalies: Reading Contemporary Argentinian Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-552
Author(s):  
Francisco Marguch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
Civil Marriage ◽  
And Gender

This article contrasts the identity politics that took place in the last decades in Argentina with the passing of the Civil Marriage Law and Gender Identity Law with the literary imagination of texts from the same years, in which sexuality exceeds categorisations and presents an anomalous horizon. The first part of the text examines Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the anomalous as a tool to redefine queer sexualities without recourse to a transcendental norm. The second part of the article looks at the work of two writers, Naty Menstrual and Pablo Pérez, as examples of the logic of the anomalous.

Gender punitivism: Queer perspectives on identity politics in criminal justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 523-536
Author(s):  
Moira Pérez ◽  
Blas Radi
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Lgbt Activism ◽  
Vulnerable Subjects

The article examines the convergence of identity politics and punitivism, two tendencies that profoundly affect current LGBT activism and state criminal policies. It considers the case of Argentina, a country often deemed exemplary in terms of gender-related legislation, and analyses a 2018 sentence that incorporates the concept of ‘travesticide’ in order to examine how the role of identity in political strategies, added to prevailing notions of gender, limits the possible approaches and answers to violence against gender non-conforming communities. It then takes this a step forward to understand how these answers are, in turn, often reduced to punitivist outcomes, narrowing the understanding of reparation and exposing the most vulnerable subjects in the community to further violence. As a contribution to Queer Criminologies, the article seeks to expose the limitations of identity politics, and in particular of its advocacy for gendered rights, showing how they can force gender non-conforming subjects to choose between rights, most notably between legal recognition of their gender identity, and safety vis-à-vis the state apparatus of criminal justice.

scholarly journals Gender Precarity: Gender Identity and the Economy of Authenticity

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Benjamin Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Trouble

In this paper I examine the role of authenticity within contemporary debates about gender identity with an eye to exploring the structure of sex and gender-based oppressions - with particular consideration with the marginalisation of trans subjects. I begin with a return to Butler's Gender Trouble to critically examine her ontology of gender and the suggestion that gender cannot be a matter of authenticity. Though this disagrees with the common schematic of trans identity mobilised within contemporary identity politics, this paper seeks to use this critique to provide a deeper explanation of trans oppression within the context of Butler's heterosexual matrix. The aim of this move is to situate trans struggles as central within philosophical feminist theory - whilst breaking from several of the shortcomings of contemporary identity ontology. These considerations will then be explored alongside Butler's work in Precarious Life, wherein the oppression of trans people will be explored in how these subjects bear a greater burden of authenticity - wherein trans genders are automatically regarded as authentic whereas cis genders remain unquestioned. This contextualises the rhetorical and ontological move adopted by many trans activists whereby they present gender as a matter of absolute and inviolable fact - which is incompatible with Butler's ontology of gender. Using bother of Butler's texts, we can regard this move as the pursuit of an impossible security, a move that serves to obscure the inauthenticity of gender overall. Instead, we are encouraged to embrace in inauthenticity of gender and to refuse to allow ourselves to sink into an economy of authenticity that marginalises trans subjects.

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