All Outputs (22)

Queer (2022)
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Finn Mackay reviews the history of queer activism and queer theory, while situating this history in the context of our current fraught political situation.

Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This article presents empirical data from survey research into lesbian and queer masculinities in the United Kingdom, conducted in 2017, which garnered over two hundred responses. Four dominant themes emerged from the data gathere... Read More about Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK.

No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens (2019)
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This article presents empirical data from survey research into lesbian and queer masculinities in the United Kingdom, conducted in 2017, which garnered over two hundred responses. Dominant themes emerged which addressed the differences between the se... Read More about No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens.

No woman’s land? Female Masculinity in the borderlands (2018)
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“Borders between gender categories, then, are zones of overlap, not lines” (Hale, 1998:323). The borders Jacob Hale was referring to in this quote, are those between trans man and butch lesbian in particular. Hale argued that, rather than clear li... Read More about No woman’s land? Female Masculinity in the borderlands.

Lesbian/queer masculinities (2017)
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Questions about the resonance and relevance of this classic and much stereotyped lesbian identity are not, of course, new questions. Perhaps the most well-known interrogation occurred during the famous ‘sex-wars’ of the 1980s, but arguably these deba... Read More about Lesbian/queer masculinities.

Un-teaching for boys (2017)
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Ungendering our children - the harms of stereotyping and how to avoid them.

For men who don't mean anything by it (2017)
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Sexual harassment sounds such a formal term, it sounds like a case at an employment tribunal. Everyone knows that sexual harassment is wrong and most probably illegal and certainly not politically correct. But an awful lot of people think that men se... Read More about For men who don't mean anything by it.

Book review: Being an early career feminist academic (2016)
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Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges, edited by Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay

Farewell, dear friend: The sociology of pet grief (2016)
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An introduction to the sociology of pet grief, looking at data from the British Mass Observation Project and considering theories from the field of Animal Studies as well as Butler's theory of 'grievability'.

Andrea Dworkin - Behind the myths (2015)
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There can be no better reason to discover the work of the late Andrea Dworkin, than all the various voices warning you not to!

Women are not their vaginas (2015)
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I had the honour to meet and debate with Naomi Wolf in May 2015, visiting the UK to appear on Al Jazeera and talk about her last book "Vagina: A New Biography".

The mysterious case of the feminist non revolution (2015)
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When is a revolution not a revolution? When it's about Women's Liberation of course; surprise, surprise. I'm tired of a feminism that acquiesces, of a feminism that smashes its own foundation instead of the patriarchy. Feminism is a global, political... Read More about The mysterious case of the feminist non revolution.

The biggest threat to feminism? It's not just the patriarchy (2015)
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What is 'choice-feminism' and why isn't it feminist?

Finn Mackay on radical feminism (2015)
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Feminism at the crossroads (2015)
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(Book Review) The politics of sex trafficking: A moral geography, Erin O'Brien, Sharon Hayes, Belinda Carpenter. Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 225, ISBN: 9781137003386 (2014)
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Book Review

Radical feminists & trans activists truce (2014)
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#GenderWeek: Truce! When radical feminists and trans feminists empathise Feminist Times By Finn Mackay read all #GenderWeek articles. We wanted to explore the ground between the polarised, entrenched positions in the so-called “TERF-war”. Radica... Read More about Radical feminists & trans activists truce.

Reclaiming revolutionary feminism (2014)
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Generally, saying: ‘feminist’, is revolutionary enough in this day and age, it’s far more of a statement now than it was back in the eighties. And no, I wouldn’t say I was a Revolutionary Feminist now ‘cos I’m less separatist than I was at that time... Read More about Reclaiming revolutionary feminism.

Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches (2014)
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This article addresses early charges of racism, made against the original UK Reclaim the Night (RTN) marches in the 1970s. These charges appear to have stuck, and been accepted almost as a truism ever since, being maintained in several academic texts... Read More about Mapping the Routes: An exploration of charges of racism made against the 1970s UK Reclaim the Night marches.

Feminism: We're not calling for equal inequality (2013)
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Speech given to the Feminism in London Conference 2013 and published in Open Democracy in English and Turkish.