Salla Peltonen
University of Helsinki, Gender Studies, Graduate Student
- Åbo Akademi University, Philosophy, Graduate StudentUniversity of Turku, Gender studies, Faculty Memberadd
- Salla Peltonen (MSc, Gender Studies, MA, Philosophy) is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Åbo Akademi University. Sall... moreSalla Peltonen (MSc, Gender Studies, MA, Philosophy) is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Åbo Akademi University. Salla is currently finalizing her dissertation on critique and epistemic habits in feminist theory. Focusing on questions of epistemology, language philosophy and ethics, her research interests include critical gender and queer theory, theories of sexual difference, post-humanism, human-animal studies, and feminist philosophy. Her work is inspired by Wittgensteinian language and moral philosophy more broadly. She has also published three articles together with her colleague Katarina Jungar on savior narratives and homonationalist discourses in the Nordic countries, published in *Sexualities* and *NORMA: Nordic Journal of Masculinity Studies*. She has also written about the conceptual politics of gender and sexual difference theory (in Swedish and Finnish). She has been a visiting scholar at PAL (center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature) at Duke University (2014-2015, spring 2017). Salla is the chair of The Society of Queer Studies in Finland.edit
Gay-friendliness and gender equality have been taken as signs of modern Western superiority over other cultural spheres and geographical spaces, particularly those of the Muslim world. In a similar manner, the promotion and defense of gay... more
Gay-friendliness and gender equality have been taken as signs of modern Western superiority over other cultural spheres and geographical spaces, particularly those of the Muslim world. In a similar manner, the promotion and defense of gay rights has become the crucible of othering discourses in relation to Africa. Across different cultural and national spaces, the
meanings of citizenship, nationalism, modernity, colonial- ism and sovereignty are being negotiated in debates about anti-homosexuality on the continent. The focus of this article is the politics of mapping anti-homosexuality legislation in Africa in Swedish daily newspapers.
Drawing on the work of Jasbir Puar and other feminist and queer scholars theorizing race and sexuality in relation to processes of nation-building, the authors analyze the mapping of the regulation of homosexuality in Africa as an instance of imaginative geographies. They investigate how journalistic rhetoric about homophobia on the African continent in Swedish daily newspapers relies on a politics of homonationalism and sexual exceptionalism in ‘gay liberation’ discourses.
meanings of citizenship, nationalism, modernity, colonial- ism and sovereignty are being negotiated in debates about anti-homosexuality on the continent. The focus of this article is the politics of mapping anti-homosexuality legislation in Africa in Swedish daily newspapers.
Drawing on the work of Jasbir Puar and other feminist and queer scholars theorizing race and sexuality in relation to processes of nation-building, the authors analyze the mapping of the regulation of homosexuality in Africa as an instance of imaginative geographies. They investigate how journalistic rhetoric about homophobia on the African continent in Swedish daily newspapers relies on a politics of homonationalism and sexual exceptionalism in ‘gay liberation’ discourses.
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Across different cultural and national spaces, the meanings of citizenship, nationalism, modernity, colonialism, and sovereignty are being negotiated in debates about antihomosexuality in Europe. In this text we analyze and discuss a... more
Across different cultural and national spaces, the meanings of citizenship, nationalism, modernity, colonialism, and sovereignty are being negotiated in debates about antihomosexuality in Europe. In this text we analyze and discuss a poster campaign aimed at youth produced by the national lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersexual (LGBTI) rights organization in Finland (Seta), and a discussion at a seminar on rainbow youth, where the poster was addressed. We pay close attention to one poster in particular, which displays an image of a woman, who is marked as Muslim, kissing
another woman who is marked as Finnish. The image conveys a colonialist savior motif whereby European patriarchy shows itself saving a brown woman from brown hetero-patriarchal masculinity. Spivak’s postcolonial deconstructive approach implies a critique of certain forms of masculinity studies which are blind to the ways in which rescue narratives may be racist.
another woman who is marked as Finnish. The image conveys a colonialist savior motif whereby European patriarchy shows itself saving a brown woman from brown hetero-patriarchal masculinity. Spivak’s postcolonial deconstructive approach implies a critique of certain forms of masculinity studies which are blind to the ways in which rescue narratives may be racist.
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This article investigates the ways in which Valerie Solanas takes on what we call the ‘grammar of patriarchy’ in The SCUM manifesto. We argue that the manifesto provides us with philosophical insights similar to those provided by thinkers... more
This article investigates the ways in which Valerie Solanas takes on what we call the ‘grammar of patriarchy’ in The SCUM manifesto. We argue that the manifesto provides us with philosophical insights similar to those provided by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Butler, Adorno and De Beauvoir. We argue that the philosophical and critical value in the manifesto lies in Solanas’ descriptions and her style of writing. In the manifesto, as well as in this article, conventions of philosophical writing, and feminist academic writing are challenged. By reading the manifesto as a philosophical text, the article focuses on questions of human life, death, hope, change, frustration, anger and love.
Keywords: Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, philosophy, critique, description
Keywords: Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, philosophy, critique, description
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Debate: Relationer mellan könen ses ofta som en del av den nationella kulturen som återskapas från en generation till en annan. Könade relationer definieras genom och inom familjen, hemmet, den lokala gemenskapen och nationen. Ofta... more
Debate: Relationer mellan könen ses ofta som en del av den nationella kulturen som återskapas från en generation till en annan. Könade relationer definieras genom och inom familjen, hemmet, den lokala gemenskapen och nationen. Ofta framställs familjen bestående av en jämställd relation mellan män och kvinnor. Denna kulturella bild återförs ofta till ett finländskt agrart, fattigt förflutet, då män och kvinnor var tvungna att arbeta sida vid sida.
Den finländska jämställdhetsdiskursen återskapar ofta det könsforskningen kallar “två-könsmodellen”. Men-, jämställdhetspolitik handlar, menar vi, om mera än bara kvinnor och män.
Den finländska jämställdhetsdiskursen återskapar ofta det könsforskningen kallar “två-könsmodellen”. Men-, jämställdhetspolitik handlar, menar vi, om mera än bara kvinnor och män.
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Considering habitual gestures and habits of feminist academic knowledge production, and the questions, reflections, viewpoints and thoughts expressed and discussed in the published texts, that we think are particularly important within... more
Considering habitual gestures and habits of feminist academic knowledge production, and the questions,
reflections, viewpoints and thoughts expressed and discussed in the published texts, that we think are particularly
important within current feminist analysis, we hope that this special issue contributes to the surely intensifying
debate about contemporary critique/postcritique.
reflections, viewpoints and thoughts expressed and discussed in the published texts, that we think are particularly
important within current feminist analysis, we hope that this special issue contributes to the surely intensifying
debate about contemporary critique/postcritique.