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Book SynopsisExplores a series of unsung and sometimes counterintuitive resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Lara Cox and Lisa Downing; Articles: The Queer Body of MLF Literature, Anne Emmanuelle Berger; `Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (…) simmer within me’: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado, Elliot Evans; Fucking the body, rewriting the text: Proto-queer embodiment through textual drag in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig’s Le Corps lesbien (1973), Kayte Stokoe; Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway’s `A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985), Lara Cox; Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye, Ulrika Dahl; Anticommunal, Antiegalitarian, Antinurturing, Antiloving: Sex and the `Irredeemable’ in Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Alex Dymock; Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig, and Proto-Queer Theory, Lisa Downing; Interviews: Interview with Paola Bacchetta; Interview with J. J. Halberstam; Interview with Clare Hemmings.