Gender and Women’s Studies Colloquium

Prof. Finn Enke considers the 1970s feminist exclusion of trans* people and questions the investment in defining feminism as that which is not trans. The trans-exclusion narrative simultaneously produces the particularity of trans while erasing trans subjects in feminist history. Finn suggests a transfeminist historical perspective that encourages recognition of the centrality of transgender subjects to iconic feminist formations as well as the uncontainability of all bodies and transitions.