Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
In her landmark study of gender, Judith Butler suggests that gender is ‘performed, manufactured through a sustained set of acts, posited through the gendered stylization of the body’.
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The Everyday Consumption of “Whiteness”: The Gaikokujin-fū (Foreign-Like) Hair Trend in Japan
In feminist literature, the beauty and the fashion industries have at times been criticized for […]
Folk as the Sound of Self-Liberation: The Career and Performance Identity of Odetta
This paper examines the performance career of Odetta, an African-American folk singer, guitarist and political […]
Black Music Styles as Vehicles for Transnational and Trans-Racial Exchange: Perceptions of Blackness in the Music Scenes of London and Paris (1920s-1950s)
Intellectuals, writers, artists and historians have recognised a fundamental role of black genres in the […]
“If I can’t dance, it ain’t my revolution”: Queer-Feminist Inquiries into Pink Bloque’s Revolutionary Strategies
This article is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural encounter and debate between two feminists on the question of what constitutes revolution.