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Open secrets

The affective cultures of organizing on Mexico’s northern border

Rice University, rosemary.hennessy{at}rice.edu

Taking sexuality and affect as its focus, this article leads us into the uncharted terrain of ‘outlawed affects’, those unspeakable sensations that do not fall easily into established categories and yet meddle with social relations. They are in this sense ‘open secrets’. The article explores some of the challenges for feminist methodology in representing the space where affective and other needs meet in the context of the cultures of labour organizing in the factory communities on Mexico’s northern border

Key Words: affect • maquiladoras • materialist feminism • methodology • Mexico • open secret • sexuality

Feminist Theory, Vol. 10, No. 3, 309-322 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1464700109343254


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