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This online talk, by 2023 Friedman Feminist Press research grant awardee Dr. Elizabeth Groeneveld, focuses on the Los Angeles-based periodical, Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture, and its publication of two pieces on the subject of transsexual women and their relationship to feminism: one piece is a lengthy essay written by Janice Raymond who has become known as one of the foremost anti-trans "feminists"; the other is a photo essay created by the lesser-known Jilly Lauren, whose "Transsexual Collage" offers a far more empathetic treatment of trans individuals.
In our contemporary moment in which attacks on trans lives are being written into law and policy, this project focuses on how rhetorics of trans inclusion were mobilized by feminist writers in historical perspective.
Dr. Elizabeth Groeneveld is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Her work appears in journals, such as Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, and American Periodicals, as well as the edited collections Queer Print Cultures (forthcoming University of Toronto Press) and Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, Volume 2 (Routledge, 2023). Her books are: Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age (Laurier University Press, 2016) and Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity.