Leaking Women: A Genealogy of Gendered and Racialized Flow

Authors

Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-20-2019

Abstract

Through a feminist and critical race analytic, this paper theorizes the disruptions evoked by leaky women—actually doubly leaky women—those whose nipples, peri-menopausal uterus’ and mouths have “leaked” in ways that rupture/stain/expose the white-patriarchal-capitalist enclosure of work, home and the streets and then dared to leak again by suing for justice in court. In a closing coda, I address the race/class policing dynamics between she who leaks and the “respectable” [usually white] women recruited to plaster up the hole and cauterize the leaker.

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This article was originally published in Genealogy, available at doi:10.3390/genealogy3010009.

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