Queering Feminism

Mackay, Finn

Abstract

In many ways it is not possible to queer feminism, because feminism is already queer. It’s the ‘OQ – the Original Queer’. One school of feminism takes this crown in particular, that is, of course, radical feminism. Want to live communally and smash the nuclear family? Aspire to while away the hours dreaming of a post-gender future? Wish to eschew mainstream beauty standards and do DIY as activism; actual DIY, like using power tools and fixing vans? If the answer is yes, then, well, Roberta is your Auntie, because radical feminism is all over that.

• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2024
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2024
• Deposit Date: Nov 21, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 1, 2027
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 319–34
• Edition: 1
• Book Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading
• ISBN: 9781399524803
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13451534
• Publisher URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-queer-reading.html
• Additional Information: Mackay, Finn. “Queering Feminism.” In The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading, edited by Jeremy Chow and Declan Kavanagh, 1st ed., 319–34. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.17381679.25.