Books by Julia "Jules" Balén
A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social Justice, 2017
Sample chapter from the book.
A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both per... more Sample chapter from the book.
A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing within the civil rights and labor movements, Julia “Jules” Balén maps the relationship between different forms of oppression and strategic musical forms of resistance. She also explores the potential this queer communal space creates for mobilizing progressive social action.
A proud member of numerous queer choruses, Balén draws from years of firsthand observations, archival research, and extensive interviews to reveal how queer chorus members feel shared vulnerability, collective strength, and even moments of ecstasy when performing. A Queerly Joyful Noise serves as a testament to the power of music, intimately depicting how participation in a queer chorus is more than a pastime, but a meaningful form of protest through celebration.
Papers by Julia "Jules" Balén
Frontiers, 2005
<p> Je n'ai pas trouvé de morale à ma fable mais seulement comme en filigrane le tracé ... more <p> Je n'ai pas trouvé de morale à ma fable mais seulement comme en filigrane le tracé d'un principe qui les résume tous et qui est: ni dieux ni déesses, ni maîtres ni maîtresses.</p> <p>(I have not found a moral to my fable but only, like a watermark, the trace of a principle which summarizes all and that is: neither gods nor goddesses, neither masters nor mistresses. Translation by Julia Balén)</p>
Duke University Press eBooks, Jan 8, 1993
The Women's review of books, Nov 1, 2004
Reviewed Work: Colette by Julia Kristeva, Jane Marie Todd
Given national movements to better integrate the STEM disciplines, faculty at California State Un... more Given national movements to better integrate the STEM disciplines, faculty at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) have come together across disciplines to explore the cultural attributes of the STEM disciplines and the importance of STEM faculty becoming more broadly culturally literate in order to better serve an increasingly diverse student body. Based on an action research model, this article uses participant reflection to describe the exploration process and development of creative teaching and mentoring interventions to develop more inviting environments for all students in the STEM disciplines that may prove useful to others who are working to engage more diverse populations of students in these disciplines.
The Women's Review of Books, 2004
Reviewed Work: Colette by Julia Kristeva, Jane Marie Todd
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2005
<p> Je n'ai pas trouvé de morale à ma fable mais seulement comme en filigrane le tracé ... more <p> Je n'ai pas trouvé de morale à ma fable mais seulement comme en filigrane le tracé d'un principe qui les résume tous et qui est: ni dieux ni déesses, ni maîtres ni maîtresses.</p> <p>(I have not found a moral to my fable but only, like a watermark, the trace of a principle which summarizes all and that is: neither gods nor goddesses, neither masters nor mistresses. Translation by Julia Balén)</p>
The Gay and Lesbian Review, 2018
Given national movements to better integrate the STEM disciplines, faculty at California State Un... more Given national movements to better integrate the STEM disciplines, faculty at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) have come together across disciplines to explore the cultural attributes of the STEM disciplines and the importance of STEM faculty becoming more broadly culturally literate in order to better serve an increasingly diverse student body. Based on an action research model, this article uses participant reflection to describe the exploration process and development of creative teaching and mentoring interventions to develop more inviting environments for all students in the STEM disciplines that may prove useful to others who are working to engage more diverse populations of students in these disciplines.
The foundations of queer theory are in part built on the work of Monique Wittig. Yet, Wittig foun... more The foundations of queer theory are in part built on the work of Monique Wittig. Yet, Wittig found queer theory wanting and, as Robyn Wiegman notes: “Judith Butler's paradigm-shifting Gender Trouble needed Wittig to make the turn that has become absolutely definitional to queer theoretical work, but in the critical habits that shape that enduring history, Wittig has become something of an unknown.” Mapping the contradictions in Butler’s assessment of Wittig’s work and the straight mind at work in this contradiction, Balén argues for a return to the radical materialist vision Wittig’s work offers so that we might more fully explore, as Rosemary Hennessy suggests, what subject-effects Wittig’s work produces and what models for resistance and change this work offers.
Any work with a new form operates like a war machine, because its design and its goal is to pulve... more Any work with a new form operates like a war machine, because its design and its goal is to pulverize the old forms and formal conventions. It is always produced in hostile territory. And the stranger it appears, nonconforming, unassimilable, the longer it will take for the Trojan Horse to be accepted. Eventually it is adopted, and, even if slowly, it will eventually work like a mine. It will sap and blast out the ground where it was planted. (" The Trojan Horse " in The Straight Mind, 69) Brilliant deep pink almost purple flowers crowned the small eagle claw cactus growing out of the solid rock wall of a small canyon where we walked. Monique Wittig's fingers stroked the waxy petals extending from the nest of thorns—admiring the way the plant was working an imperceptible fissure in the rock to make its home. Our walks were full of such detailed explorations and Wittig's were very particular eyes through which to explore landscapes of all sorts—material and imagined. We explored a great variety in our time together.
Book chapters by Julia "Jules" Balén
Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, 2005
In Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, ed. Elizabeth Lapovsky ... more In Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, ed. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
The Queer Community: Continuing the Struggle for Social Justice, 2009
Autobiographical Literary Criticism, 1993
Book Reviews by Julia "Jules" Balén
The Women's Review of Books, 2004
Reviewed Work: Colette by Julia Kristeva, Jane Marie Todd
The Women's Review of Books, 2004
A Tribute to the Innovative Philosopher/Poet/Novelist Who Died in January 2003
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Oct 2009
Poetry by Julia "Jules" Balén
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2005
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Books by Julia "Jules" Balén
A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing within the civil rights and labor movements, Julia “Jules” Balén maps the relationship between different forms of oppression and strategic musical forms of resistance. She also explores the potential this queer communal space creates for mobilizing progressive social action.
A proud member of numerous queer choruses, Balén draws from years of firsthand observations, archival research, and extensive interviews to reveal how queer chorus members feel shared vulnerability, collective strength, and even moments of ecstasy when performing. A Queerly Joyful Noise serves as a testament to the power of music, intimately depicting how participation in a queer chorus is more than a pastime, but a meaningful form of protest through celebration.
Papers by Julia "Jules" Balén
Book chapters by Julia "Jules" Balén
Book Reviews by Julia "Jules" Balén
Poetry by Julia "Jules" Balén
A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing within the civil rights and labor movements, Julia “Jules” Balén maps the relationship between different forms of oppression and strategic musical forms of resistance. She also explores the potential this queer communal space creates for mobilizing progressive social action.
A proud member of numerous queer choruses, Balén draws from years of firsthand observations, archival research, and extensive interviews to reveal how queer chorus members feel shared vulnerability, collective strength, and even moments of ecstasy when performing. A Queerly Joyful Noise serves as a testament to the power of music, intimately depicting how participation in a queer chorus is more than a pastime, but a meaningful form of protest through celebration.