Queering the Second Wave

Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham. Her books include, most recently, The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and The Modern Killer (2013), the co-authored Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts (with Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan, 2015), and the edited After Foucault (2018). She is currently writing a monograph on 'selfish women'. Lara Cox is an independent scholar and the author of numerous articles on gender studies, theatre, and performance. Her new book, Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd (2018), treats the contemporary intersectional political relevance of avant-garde theatre. Her next project concerns female satire in French and US contexts.

• Introduction, 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.