All Outputs (4)

Queer (2022)
Journal Article
Mackay, F. (2022). Queer. Philosopher, Summer 2022(Summer),

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

"The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic (2022)
Digital Artefact
Mackay, F. (2022). "The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic. [Video]

Can we find a way through and even around the messy gender wars currently raging on- and offline? In this wide-ranging and timely conversation with Jana Bacevic, sociologist and activist Finn Mackay provides important theoretical background and conte... Read More about "The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic.

Lesbian feminism (2022)
Book Chapter
Mackay, F. (2022). Lesbian feminism. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003286523-16

Lesbianism is the term used to describe a sexual orientation, sexual acts and desires, and romantic and sexual love between women. During the period known as the feminist Second Wave across the Western world, roughly from the late 1960s and into the... Read More about Lesbian feminism.

Still too hot to handle? Firebrand radical feminism (2022)
Journal Article
Mackay, F. (2022). Still too hot to handle? Firebrand radical feminism. Hypatia, 37(1), 216-220. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2021.74

This is a particularly important time to be reconsidering and revisiting radical feminism. The contemporary visibility of trans rights movements, and the unsurprising, accompanying backlash from a variety of camps makes this a politically charged and... Read More about Still too hot to handle? Firebrand radical feminism.