Papers by Jane Clare Jones
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2023
Routledge, 2023
Sample from Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader
The Radical Notion Issue 9, 2023
A Conversation With Victoria Smith on Hags
The Radical Notion Issue 9, 2023
A Review of Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress'
The Radical Notion Issue 8, 2023
This special issue of THE RADICAL NOTION is a republication of pieces first printed in Issue Eigh... more This special issue of THE RADICAL NOTION is a republication of pieces first printed in Issue Eight of the magazine (Autumn/Winter 2022). Given the political importance of the issues under discussion, we have made this pdf freely available and accessible to everyone. We recognise that recent political disagreements have been extremely painful for many on all sides, and that is a source of much regret. We maintain, however, that there are substantive political issues at stake here, that efforts to stifle discussion are politically unhealthy, and that we remain committed to the right of all women to voice their political opinions. Just as with the critique of trans ideology, we have tried to explain our position as clearly and thoroughly as possible. We know many will disagree, and don't expect any immediate political effect, but we think it important for our analysis to be placed on the record. We hope this work can be taken as it is intended: as a genuine political contribution to a movement which is profoundly significant for us all, and for women and girls.
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2023
Inside Film, 2022
This is the first UK documentary feature to look at the clash between women’s rights and trans id... more This is the first UK documentary feature to look at the clash between women’s rights and trans ideology. The film can also be watched (ad-free) at: www.adulthumanfemale.info
In record time, the trans movement has captured the big institutions.
The police, the political parties, the media, the universities and major corporations have taken up the cause in the name of inclusiveness.
But is it really harmless when men identify into the female sex?
Is it progressive for doctors to modify the bodies of young people in the name of changing their ‘gender’?
There has been a manufactured confusion around sex and gender. At the same time we are told that ‘there is no debate’. Dissenters are cast as ‘haters’ and cancelled.
This is not only a struggle to defend women’s rights. At risk is safeguarding for children and young people, biological reality, reason and even democracy.
Reality denial comes at a price.
#gender #identity #sex #women #feminism
The Radical Notion Issue 7, 2022
The Radical Notion and The Philosophers' Magazine, 2022
I n 'A Woman's Body Is Like a Foreign Country,' radical feminist Rebecca Whisnant observes, corre... more I n 'A Woman's Body Is Like a Foreign Country,' radical feminist Rebecca Whisnant observes, correctly, that our culture is littered with "rhetoric and metaphor" which "routinely merg[e] … violations of national sovereignty and … bodily (especially sexual) sovereignty." 2 We speak, she notes, of 'virgin territory,' of troops 'penetrating' a conquered nation, of the 'rape' of Iraq. Conversely, we also think men's physical penetration of women-as suggested in my opening editorial discussion of the argument of 'Political Lesbianism: The Case Against Heterosexuality'-in terms of 'invasion,' 'colonization,' and-as in the title of the crucial chapter seven of
The Radical Notion Issue 7, 2022
In my memory I'm looking down on my body, where it's been shoved, at an angle, onto the ground. I... more In my memory I'm looking down on my body, where it's been shoved, at an angle, onto the ground. I won't ever know if this memory is real. I can't tell how completely, at that moment, I
The Radical Notion Issue 7, 2022
but not exclusively, women-call Prince's sexual power 'the vortex.' It is, 2 for my money, one of... more but not exclusively, women-call Prince's sexual power 'the vortex.' It is, 2 for my money, one of the great wonders of the world, a turbo-charged shot of sweet, neat libido slipped straight into your spine by someone who knows exactly what they're doing with it. The kind of thing that can grab you by the viscera on a random Tuesday morning, and before you know what's happening you're mouthing
The Radical Notion Issue 7, 2022
Lorde's magnificent 'Uses of the Erotic,' desire-and women's capacity to embody and assume their ... more Lorde's magnificent 'Uses of the Erotic,' desire-and women's capacity to embody and assume their desire-is a powerful 'assertion of life-force,' a crucial component of the creative becoming of ourselves and our ability to engage in the work that makes our lives meaningful (pp. 40-42). Desire, suggests Lorde-echoing several other reflections in this collection-is a force which flows. When allowed to move freely, it can bring us into the intense, creative unfolding we understand as 'flow states,' experiences in which we dissolve into the process of what we are making, and can feel, at the best of times, as if we are simply surrendering to the power of creative process as it comes through us. This coming of creation, which is also the becoming of ourselves, is powerfully, somatically linked to the 'coming' of sexual pleasure, and in particular, to the wave-like unfolding of jouissance, which, as I explore on page 48, distinguishes certain modes of female sexual experience from its more goal-orientated, expulsive, male counterpart. This potentially unending flow of creation, coming, and becoming all this is the work of the erotic, the power of our libidinal drives to enrich and enliven as they move and move through us. Desire, Blob tells us on page 53, is 'The Bassline of Life,' a "pulsing drive to extend ourselves towards the possibility of new horizons," the thrum of a groove that pushes us outside of ourselves, again and again, to seek connection to others, and to seek creation with them. It is, Allie Rogers reminds us, a "form of embodied energy that can inform many areas of our lives" (p. 40).
The Radical Notion Issue 6, 2022
An Interview with Max Dashu
The Radical Notion Issue 6, 2022
Interview with Rebecca Johnson and Bea Campbell
The Radical Notion Issue 6, 2022
The Radical Notion Issue 6, 2022
Radical Notion Books, 2022
The Conformist Rebellion, 2022
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www.philosophersmag.com/essays/318-woman-as-resource-a-reply-to-catharine-mackinnon
https://www.chilternsaonb.org/chalkcherrieschairs/our-work/heritage/chilterns-women-conference/
In record time, the trans movement has captured the big institutions.
The police, the political parties, the media, the universities and major corporations have taken up the cause in the name of inclusiveness.
But is it really harmless when men identify into the female sex?
Is it progressive for doctors to modify the bodies of young people in the name of changing their ‘gender’?
There has been a manufactured confusion around sex and gender. At the same time we are told that ‘there is no debate’. Dissenters are cast as ‘haters’ and cancelled.
This is not only a struggle to defend women’s rights. At risk is safeguarding for children and young people, biological reality, reason and even democracy.
Reality denial comes at a price.
#gender #identity #sex #women #feminism
www.philosophersmag.com/essays/318-woman-as-resource-a-reply-to-catharine-mackinnon
https://www.chilternsaonb.org/chalkcherrieschairs/our-work/heritage/chilterns-women-conference/
In record time, the trans movement has captured the big institutions.
The police, the political parties, the media, the universities and major corporations have taken up the cause in the name of inclusiveness.
But is it really harmless when men identify into the female sex?
Is it progressive for doctors to modify the bodies of young people in the name of changing their ‘gender’?
There has been a manufactured confusion around sex and gender. At the same time we are told that ‘there is no debate’. Dissenters are cast as ‘haters’ and cancelled.
This is not only a struggle to defend women’s rights. At risk is safeguarding for children and young people, biological reality, reason and even democracy.
Reality denial comes at a price.
#gender #identity #sex #women #feminism