LIMINAL

Proceedings of the Second Annual Critical Femininities Conference

Edited by Andi Schwartz, Hannah Maitland & Ruth O’Sullivan

Cover image by Madeline Carey, from JOAN 2013 by Seren-Rose Sonell
Cover design by Andi Schwartz
Funded by LA&PS Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Research Events Fund at York University
Published by the Centre for Feminist Research at York University

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SECTION I:
BODIES & IDENTITY

SECTION II:
(IN)VISIBILITY & REPRESENTATION

Tyla Lebo, “Queer in a Country Bar: The Intersection of Queer Femme Subjectivity and Heteronormative Structures”

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Alessia Servin, “The Woman Who Could Never Be:
Experiences of Femininity and Womanhood as a Nonbinary Woman of Colour”

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Javeria Malik, “Women in Pakistan’s Policies”

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Anna Young, “Women on the Edge: Femininity and the Barrier of the Screen”

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Jessie Taieun Yoon, “Queerly Feminine Elsewhere: Rethinking Femme-ininity as Camp Disidentificatory Sensibility”

SECTION III:
THROUGH THE AGES

Jim Ryan, “Clement of Alexandria:
Liminal Servant, Proto-Liberation Theologian, and Proto-Feminist (Maybe!)“

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Alex MacKenzie, “Being A Girl:
Trans Experiences of Girlhood at Any Age”

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Paris Simone Mágdala Antillón, “The Story of a Changeling Femme: My Mutable Gender Journey”

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Heather Simmons, “Girlhood and the ‘Problematic’ Body:
The Struggle for Acceptable Femininity”

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Seren-Rose Sonell, “From Girl Power to Trans Folk Saint: An Autoethnographic Retrospective of One Artist in Collaboration with Joan of Arc”