Feminist Forms

Chinar Mehta
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Feminist discussions as I come across them.

Episodes

  1. 07/18/2020

    Thinking about hierarchy & gender

    In this episode, I outline the ways of thinking about hierarchies in society around gender - mainly focusing on labour, family, and femininity. References: Bergoffen, D., & Burke, M. (2020). Simone de Beauvoir. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/beauvoir/ Connell, R. W. (1987). Gender and power: Society, the person and sexual politics. Davis, A. Y. (1983). Women, race & class. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=738888 De Beauvoir, S. (1949). The second sex. Firestone, S. (1970). The dialectic of sex. Haraway, D. (2013). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873106 hooks, bell. (1984). Feminist theory: From margin to centre. Rubin, G. (1975). The traffic in women: Notes on the "political economy" of sex.

  2. 07/05/2020

    Are you lonely alone?

    Is this the perfect time to talk about loneliness? For those of us with secure incomes, and comfortable homes, maybe there is a sense of solitude now that we are supposed to be socially and physically distancing ourselves from the rest of the world. But there might still be loneliness. Maybe it peeks out only sometimes, alerting you of its presence when you least expect it. Maybe you are away from a support system you carefully set up, or away from a life that lets you read your loneliness as solitude. But is this a feeling that is just yours to ponder over? Books I have referred to: Alberti, F. B. (2019). A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion. Oxford University Press, USA. The Lonely City by Olvia Laing (2016) My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2019) Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Mills, C. W. (1959). The promise. The sociological imagination, 3-24. URL: https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf Hostile Architecture: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/nyregion/hostile-architecture-nyc.html

  3. 06/27/2020

    Gender & Sex: Biological truths or a matter of perception?

    In this episode, I briefly go into the difference between sex and gender and destabilise the idea that sex is something permanent, while gender is flexible. In fact, both are somewhat unstable. Listen in to know more! Materials referred: Butler, J. (1993). Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “sex.” Routledge. Delphy, C. (1993). Rethinking sex and gender. Women’s Studies International Forum, 16(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(93)90076-L Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Haraway, D. (2013). Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873106 Prosser, J. (1998). Second skins: The body narratives of transsexuality. Columbia University Press. Rosario, V. A. (2004). The Biology of Gender and the Construction of Sex? GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 10(2), 280–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-280 Zimman, L. (2014). The discursive construction of sex: Remaking and reclaiming the gendered body in talk about g******s among trans men. 24.

  4. 06/18/2020

    Emotional Labour & Public Life: "The Managed Heart" Part 2

    A summary of the second part of The Managed Heart by Arlie Hochschild.

  5. 06/18/2020

    Emotional Labour & Private Life: "The Managed Heart" Part 1

    A summary of the first part of The Managed Heart by Arlie Hochschild.

  6. 05/09/2020

    Perspectives on Redistribution and Recognition

    This audio is about the debate that Nancy Fraser introduces when she makes the distinction between redistribution and recognition. I have tried to provide an outline of her argument, in addition to the responses by Iris Young and Judith Butler. It is a fairly academic outline; it might only be useful to you if you want to understand the theoretical aspects of the argument. Hope it's helpful to you!

    Perspectives on Redistribution and Recognition
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Feminist discussions as I come across them.

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    Chinar Mehta
  • Years Active
    2020
  • Episodes
    6
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