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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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Lashing out Against the Backlash: Constructing a Queer-Timed Narrative in the Affective Space of the Kitchen in Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
Recognized as a key text in contemporary South Korean feminist activism, the novel Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 has been invoked in other feminist narratives as a means of “delivering both the revelation of collective trauma and the criteria for reinterpreting what had been experienced through new temporal alternatives to what had been the ‘official’ story’” (Lee 218). However, the novel’s potential “to magnetize a mass awakening” seems to be limited to an endemic context (Lee 218). Though stimulating debate in East Asian countries (Yang 1558), neither the novel nor the film has received enough critical attention internationally. I aim to bridge the gap in current scholarship by analyzing the feminist narrative of Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 in a broader theoretical context. Drawing upon Susan Faludi’s theory on anti-feminist backlash, I explore how the new temporal alternatives opened up by the novel further emerge through the spatial dynamics of the kitchen in the cinematic medium, thereby enabling Ji-young to lash out at the backlash against the film. I first examine, in the context of anti-feminist backlash, the mobilization of negative affect in feminist theory as a means of speaking out against patriarchal oppression. Then, engaging with queer feminist theory, I analyze how a means of openly expressing these negative affects is offered through Ji-young’s mental breakdown, which constructs a queer-timed narrative that transforms the kitchen into a space of female creativity. While exploring the liberating potential of this transformation, at the same time, I reflect upon whether the queer narrative of Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is effective by questioning the validity of applying a Euro-centric theoretical framework to a film set in an East Asian country.
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Marginalized Code: Feminist Interventions in AI Art
What does it mean to critically engage with the AI art through a feminist lens – and how can such engagement help reveal and resist the power structures encoded in its systems? This paper argues that AI systems are not only a cultural product but also a symptom of broader sociotechnical infrastructures marked by gendered exclusion, epistemic injustice, and hidden labor. The central thesis is that feminist critique is essential to unpacking how AI systems reproduce marginalization under the guise of objectivity and innovation. Drawing on feminist scholarship and critical media history, the paper situates the AI art within a broader lineage of feminist engagement with technology, from cyberfeminist net art to contemporary AI art, and within the emerging scholarly discourse on feminist AI. Methodologically, it combines historical analysis, theoretical synthesis, and qualitative case study interpretation. The analysis frames selected feminist AI artworks through both media-historical context and the perspectives articulated by the artists themselves. Through the analysis of selected feminist AI artworks, it demonstrates how these practices challenge dominant narratives of neutrality and progress. Rather than seeking inclusion within flawed systems, the feminist AI art reimagines technological infrastructures around care, accountability, and alternative ways of knowing. These interventions resist the abstraction and erasure that characterize much of mainstream AI, offering epistemological and aesthetic strategies that confront and reconfigure power relations in digital culture.
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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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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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