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Paper out in Feminist Theory
My paper in Feminist Theory is finally officially out – it is fully open-access and can be downloaded at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001241232260. I am no longer on social media due to persistent harassment, so would appreciate any help at publicising it – these things take a long time to write and even longer to peer review, and very rarely get widely read! The abstract is below and I hope the paper is a useful contribution to thinking through how we tackle sexual violence in institutions. A ‘rape crisis’ has been identified in universities in the Anglophone North, and responses usually take the…
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Interview – The Malcolm Effect
I was recently interviewed on The Malcolm Effect podcast by the fantastic Deej and Momodou – listen below or download from Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. https://player.fm/series/the-malcolm-effect/ep-78-challenges-for-feminism-today-dr-alison-phipps-deej I hope you enjoy it!
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Open-access resources
Just a reminder that my website contains a number of resources that are free to download, adapt and use. Resources for lecturers: this is a portfolio of resources for fellow lecturers, which include a series of introductory lectures about feminism, and a gender theory syllabus for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students. Resources for researchers: this is a collection of handouts, infographics and blogs offering general advice to social science and humanities researchers, whether postgraduate students or early-career academics. Resources for activists: this is a growing set of resources to support activists campaigning against and attempting to tackle sexual violence in universities…
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From white feminism to abolition: a work in progress
Originally posted on Read and Resist!: Abolition Feminism keynote – Alison Phipps https://youtu.be/1WcOciF7yPQ I am not an organiser – I am a teacher, a scholar and a survivor. I have been an activist, but in circles very different to these. I came to abolition from the heart of white feminism – the movement against campus sexual violence in the UK. This was powered by extremely angry white feminists, although some of the key student leaders were women of colour (I want to mention Susuana Amoah here, who I worked closely with for many years). From 2006 to 2018 I was…
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From ‘sex-based rights’ to ‘become ungovernable’: from supremacy to solidarity
‘The inclusion of men who claim to have a female ‘gender identity’ into the category of women in law, policies and practice constitutes discrimination against women by impairing the recognition of women’s sex-based human rights. Organizations that promote the concept of ‘gender identity’ challenge the right of women and girls to define themselves on the basis of sex.’ This is an excerpt from the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, launched in 2019, and now signed by over 30,000 individuals in 158 countries, in collaboration with 427 organisations. The Declaration has become the manifesto of contemporary gender-critical feminism, which positions itself…
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Writing up your methodology
Here are some suggestions on how the various sections of a dissertation methods chapter should be put together, expressed as question prompts for you to think about and respond to. This is not a definitive guide, and it does not replace careful reading on methodology and independent thought. You will need to cite academic literature to back up your answers to the questions asked here, and there may be other matters you need to address in your methods chapter that have not been included here, depending on your study. This is just some initial guidance. The prompts here are practical ones – remember…
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Writing your introduction and conclusion
One of the most difficult things to do in drafting any piece of writing (but especially a thesis or dissertation) is the introduction and conclusion. Students often try to tackle the introduction first; I usually advise them to write both the introduction and conclusion last, because they both have a summative function. I also advise students to write them together, because they function as ‘mirror images’ of one another. Here are a few tips I share with my students – I hope you find them useful. Introduction The main purpose of an introduction is to ease your reader into your…
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White feminism and the racial capitalist protection racket: from #MeToo to Me, Not You
Originally published on the Manchester University Press blog On May 25th 2020, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an act that precipitated a powerful wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the world. May 25th 2020 was also the day Amy Cooper (a white woman) called the police on birdwatcher Christian Cooper (a Black man, no relation) because he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park. Her use of the phrase ‘there’s an African-American man threatening my life’ was a threat to get Christian Cooper killed by a cop. These incidents are linked by more than…
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Tackling sexual harassment and violence in universities: seven lessons from the UK
This is the text of an online keynote I gave, hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the Freie Universität Berlin, on February 5th 2021. It was the last in a series of sessions on sexual harassment and violence in universities; when I was invited to speak, I was honoured but also concerned about what I could offer as a UK-based academic whose work on sexual violence has been focused on universities in my home country. My work started in 2006 with a pilot study at my own institution, and since then I have been involved in a…
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Gender, Violence and White Feminism: Q&A with Alison Phipps
This is an interview I did for the Climate Emergency Manchester blog. Could you tell us a little about yourself – where you grew up, went to school, how you came to be a Professor of Gender Studies? I was born in North Yorkshire, then lived in Teeside for a while before my family moved to Bristol. After doing my GCSEs at the local comprehensive, I left home at 16 – I wanted to be a dancer and went into full-time professional training. But I lacked the talent to pursue ballet (my real passion) and was too self-conscious for musical…
