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Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women – working class, peasant and indigenous – challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women’s responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to championing climate justice in mining affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women’s grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.
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The feminism book
\"Combines authoritative text with graphics and quotes from leading contributors in an introduction to more than eighty-five of the most important ideas, movements, and events that have defined feminism and feminist thought throughout history. Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, this book traces feminism and the feminist movement from its origins, through the suffragette movement of the 19th century, to recent developments such as the Everyday Sexism Project and the #MeToo movement. Entries explore and explain each idea, placing them in their social and cultural context. Packed with inspirational quotations, profiles of key individuals and turning points, and flowcharts and infographics explaining the most significant concepts clearly and simply, The Feminism Book is perfect for anyone with an interest in female empowerment.\" -- (Source of summary not specified)
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No Permanent Waves
No Permanent Wavesboldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the \"wave\" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.
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Espace, discours et identite feministes sur Instagram. Modes de construction d'un soi feministe dans les profils Instagram: propositions methodologiques /Feminist Space, Discourse and Identity on Instagram. Modes of constructing a Feminist Self in Instagram Profiles : Methodological Proposals
S'inspirant de la linguistique socioculnirelle qui envisage l'identite comme le resultat d'un processus discursif, cet article etudie les modes de presentation et de construction d'un soi feministe dans les profils de comptes feministes sur Instagram. Notre objectif est autant de questionner ce qu'est le feminisme et ce qu'il recouvre, que de fournir un outil d'identification de profils feministes, eprouve sur de nombreuses occurrences (630 profils Instagram). Apres avoir propose une definition exploratoire du discours, de l'espace et de l'identite feministes, l'article expose une methode de recensement et de constitution d'un corpus quantitatif de comptes feministes. L'article presente ensuite onze modes de construction d'identites feministes dans les profils Instagram, discute d'enjeux methodologiques de la construction de categories et revient sur les limites de ces categories. Ces onze modes de construction d'identites feministes soulignent la complexite et l'heterogeneite des processus de construction de l'identite en general et des identites feministes en particulier, lesquelles vont bien au-dela des notions d'engagement et de militantisme et de la seule autocategorisation via l'etiquette [beaucoup moins que] feministe [beaucoup plus grand que]. Nous presentons quatre exemples de profils illustrant un continuum entre identites feministes manifestes, latentes et incertaines. Ainsi, il existe bel et bien plusieurs facons de se declarer [beaucoup moins que] feministe [beaucoup plus grand que]. Mots-cles : identite discursive, feminisme numerique, reseaux sociaux, profils Instagram, queer Drawing on sociocultural linguistics, which considers identity as the result of a discursive process, this paper examines the modes of presentation and construction of a feminist self in the profiles of Instagram feminist accounts. Our aim is as much to question what feminism is and what it covers, as to provide a tool for identifying feminist profiles, tried and tested on numerous occurrences (630 Instagram profiles). After proposing an exploratory definition of feminist discourse, space and identity, the article sets out a method for compiling and building a quantitative corpus of feminist accounts. The article then presents eleven modes of constructing feminist identities in Instagram profiles, discusses some of the methodological challenges in constructing categories and questions the limitations of these categories. These eleven modes of constructing feminist identities highlight the complexity and heterogeneity of identity construction processes in general and feminist identities in particular, which go well beyond notions of engagement and activism, and self-categorisation via the label \"feminist\". We present four examples of profiles illustrating a continuum between manifest, latent and uncertain feminist identities. So there are many ways to call yourself a \"feminist\". Keywords: discursive identity, digital feminism, social media, Instagram profiles, queer
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Feminism(s) in early childhood : using feminist theories in research and practice
This work brings together international scholars from around the globe to examine how different feminist theories are being used in early childhood research, policy and pedagogy. The array of feminist discourses captured here offer ontextualised possibilities for disrupting dominant patriarchal beliefs and producing change. They address and challenge how early childhood experiences, institutions and practices produce gendered effects across and within diverse contexts and demonstrate how feminism(s) in action can be used to reconceptualise research methods, government policy, children's learning, teaching practice and educational resources. In this way, the book contributes to creating new knowledge connections and community alliances in the global effort to end gender-based inequalities across local and global communities.
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Just Like Us
In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from \"The Fappening\" and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars' activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women's vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions.
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