Dossier: Autotheoretical writing as a feminist procedure

With this dossier, we propose to bring together articles that reflect on the role of writing as a means of making sense of the always plural experiences of womanhood, whether as an effort at self-definition or as a move toward dispersion. As Judith Butler (2019 [1988]) argued, based on the idea of the de-biologization of gender (2009 [1949]) presented decades earlier by Simone de Beauvoir, genders are “formative acts” instituted by a certain “stylization” of the body which, in their iterative and performative nature, produce illusory identities. In this way, the author denies the ontological nature of gender, allowing for other repetitions and performances beyond its relationship with sexuality. In this sense, we consider Lauren Fournier's (2021) argument to be accurate, as she views self-theory as an extremely useful mode of reflection for feminist thought, as it escapes the ambitions of universalization without sacrificing conceptual acuity. Thus, the mutable and unpredictable potential of gender is taken here as a theoretical impulse, stimulating forms of narration that do not interdict the particular circumstances of enunciation but rather, as Hartman (2022 [2020], p. 61) puts it, reverberate “her runaway tongue”.

Organizers:

Patrícia Reis - Professora Adjunta no Departamento de História e Relações Internacionais - Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Clarissa Mattos - Professora Substituta do Instituto de História - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Deadline for submission: until 30/11/2024.

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