Graduate Journal of Social Science

Articles

• Queer Past, Queer Present, Queer Future

  Queer Past, Queer Present, Queer Future

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  • pp. 3–23

• “For Queer Eyes Only?": Creating Queer Performance Art at Univeristy

  Terri Power

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  • pp. 24–41

• Rude tools and material difference. Queer theory, ANT and materiality: an under-explored intersection?

  Bo Jensen

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    Recent advances in archaeology and Actor-Network-theory stress the agency and irreducibility of material objects. Such an approach may allow us to problematise the narrow focus on texts and the semiotics of identities still dominant in some queer theory and supplement it with more attention to lived practice.
    This requires a shift in ways of ascribing and describing agency: rather than focusing on independent and coherent human agents in the bourgeois liberal humanist tradition, we may shift our focus to proper monsters, construed at the interface of human beings and material culture. I suggest that the queerness of e.g. Leathermen and Skins is realised at least as much through materialisation performed with artefacts as through any inherently human agency.
    I also suggest that a keener materialist focus allows queer theory to return attention to the impossibility of any natural body and to the importance of class and economy in creating identities and subcultures. I suggest that such a focus must problematise any claims to coherent identity, thus queering the identities under investigation.

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  • pp. 42–71

• Between ordinary and deeply religious: Re/Negotiating the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ in the Finnish parliamentary debate on assisted reproduction

  Eva-Mikaela Kinnari

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    In this article I analyze a recent debate preceding the Act on Assisted Fertility Treatments in Finland (Act number 1237/2006, given 22.12.2006). The discussion about the government proposed act was framed as a ‘value-debate’, with two major discursive strands forming the basis for arguments put forth by the various members of parliament: a socially conservative discourse on gender and sexuality based on an interpretation of Christianity and a discourse on Finnish equality politics. In this article I give a reading, based on queer theoretical insights as well as recent theoretization of post-secularism, of the aforementioned discourses and their interconnectedness. I question the notion that the ‘values’ operating in the debate can be fully differentiated into categories of ‘religious’ or ‘secular’, and further argue that maintaining such a division might obscure connections that are fundamental to heteronormative conceptions of kinship. The aim of the article is to destabilize an understanding of Finland as secular and egalitarian.

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  • pp. 72–94

• Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka’s Russell Quant Mystery Series

  Péter Balogh

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  • pp. 95–114

• Sibilla Aleramo, Lina Poletti and Giovanni Cena: Understanding Connections between Lesbian Desire, Feminism and Free Love in Early-Twentieth-Century Italy

  Ellen Zitani

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  • pp. 115–140

Book Reviews

• Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame by Sally R. Munt

  Richard Maguire

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  • pp. 141–144

• De la cama a la calle: perspectivas teóricas lésbico-feministas [From the Bed to the Street: Lesbian-Feminist Theoretical Perspectives] by Jules Falquet

  Camila Esguerra Muelle

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  • pp. 145–148

• No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

  Robert Teixeira

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  • pp. 149–161