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Lesbian Feminist Killjoys

Sin, Queer Negativity, and Inherited Guilt

Av Wendy Mallette

Del i serien Hauntings: Queer/Trans Studies in Religion

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How lesbian feminist theories of sex illuminate public anxieties about sin, guilt, and innocenceStereotyped as manhating, puritanical killjoys, lesbian feminists have drawn almost as much contempt as the conservative Christian movements to which they are compared. Rather than dismissing this negativity, Lesbian Feminist Killjoys embraces it. The book proposes that the negativity of an earlier era sheds light on irresolvable complicities that shape queer and trans life today.Grounded in the archives of lesbian feminist movements, Lesbian Feminist Killjoys centers the contributions of four key lesbian feminists: Beverly Smith, Andrea Dworkin, Pat Parker, and Jill Johnston. Author Wendy Mallette unpacks these writers' understanding of sex as inextricably tied to patriarchy, capitalism, racism, and colonialism. Their thinking is brought into conversation with theorizations of queer negativity and the concept of social sin. By taking cues from Black, womanist, and queer Christian theology, Mallette traces how fantasies of innocence—appearing in feminist and queer studies, Christian theology, and debates about sex and race in the public sphere—underwrite a violent tendency to disavow guilt and scapegoat others. Mallette also responds to denials of inherited guilt displayed in recent anti-critical race theory, anti-DEI, and anti-trans legislation. Ultimately, Lesbian Feminist Killjoys reveals how strands of negativity can offer powerful resources to contend with gender and racial oppression.
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Wendy Mallette is Assistant Professor of Contemporary American Christianities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

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"In her twisty and probing debut, religious studies scholar Mallette... delves insightfully into bedrock ideologies undergirding Western thought." – Publishers Weekly "Wendy Mallette usefully says out loud many of the quiet parts of messy feminist conversations filled with bad objects, wounded attachments, cross purposes, and conflicting agendas, within internally contradictory movements and divided communities, in this important contribution to studies of queer religion and the 'new lesbian history.'" - Susan Stryker, author of Changing Gender "Wendy Mallette's Lesbian Feminist Killjoys gives us a more complex, more robust set of voices, contexts, historical moments, and texts for what might count as "queer negativity" and its consequences, contributions, and promise. It makes clear that we have only begun to grapple with lesbian feminism's profound, pertinent insights." - Kent Brintnall, co-editor of Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion "A great book for anyone who wants to engage with the messiness of history, or connect desire and politics, or be open to the wisdom of graffiti, or give up redemption in favor of relation. Wendy Mallette doesn't offer answers, but she does incite new ways of thinking, acting, and, indeed, living." - Janet R. Jakobsen, author of The Sex Obsession

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