All Outputs (55)

Queering Feminism (2024)
Book Chapter

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... Read More about Queering Feminism.

Who’s afraid of gender? (2024)
Journal Article

Book review of Who’s Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler, London, Allen Lane, 2024, 320 pp., £ 25.00 (hardcover), £ 13.99 (e-book), ISBN 978 0 2415 9582 4

Introduction to Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue: On Solidarity (2023)
Journal Article

Gender Wars (2023)
Digital Artefact

Interview with Finn Mackay, Senior Lecturer, UWE, Bristol in Channel 4 documentary 'Gender Wars'.

Left feminisms: Jo Littler in conversation with Finn Mackay (2023)
Book Chapter

This book brings together a decade of interviews with key feminist academics. Through sensitive and nuanced conversations, Jo Littler brings to life actions, arguments and solutions generated by diverse feminist thinkers on the left.

Beginning as... Read More about Left feminisms: Jo Littler in conversation with Finn Mackay.

You can’t kill the spirit’ (but you can try): Gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill women’s peace camp (2023)
Book Chapter

This groundbreaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism.

Drawing on case studies that range from Cold War women-only peace camps to more recent mixed-gender examples from around the world, dive... Read More about You can’t kill the spirit’ (but you can try): Gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill women’s peace camp.

Queer (2022)
Journal Article

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

‘You can’t kill the spirit’ (but you can try): Gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp (2022)
Book Chapter

In the mid-1990s Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp outside the US National Security Agency military base in Yorkshire was the only full-time women-only peace camp in the UK and was wo-manned by several Greenham stalwarts. From whatever background, peac... Read More about ‘You can’t kill the spirit’ (but you can try): Gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp.

"The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic (2022)
Digital Artefact

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

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

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.

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars The Politics of Sex (2021)
Book

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' – the violent feminist fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female mascul... Read More about Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars The Politics of Sex.

Raising awareness and improving responses to gender-based violence: The contribution of feminist thought and activism (2021)
Book Chapter

Raising Awareness and Improving Responses to Gender-Based Violence: The Contribution of Feminist Thought and Activism

Finn Mackay on gender ideology (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine

https://www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/f-words-what-is-gender-ideology/

Understanding the fight over trans rights – part 2 (2020)
Digital Artefact

Joining Anushka Asthana to discuss the issue are the feminist author Finn Mackay, who believes that while feminist divisions over trans rights are not new, they need not be inevitable, and Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor who describes herself... Read More about Understanding the fight over trans rights – part 2.

Tories flush Gender Recognition Act reform (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine

https://discoversociety.org/2020/06/29/tories-flush-gender-recognition-act-reform/

Interview with Dr Finn Mackay for The Sociology Show (2020)
Digital Artefact

In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Finn Mackay from UWE Bristol about her book entitled 'Radical Feminism: Feminist activism in movement'. Finn explains the 4 main components of Radical Feminism and some of the misconceptions about the movement too... Read More about Interview with Dr Finn Mackay for The Sociology Show.

Always endangered, never extinct: Exploring contemporary butch lesbian identity in the UK (2019)
Journal Article

© 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.

BBC The Big Questions (2019)
Other

Rachel Burden presents topical debate live from The Attenborough Centre at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Has social media ruined childhood? Is feminism in crisis?

No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens (2019)
Journal Article

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.