Ruth Lewis and Susan Marine
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447336570
- eISBN:
- 9781447336624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447336570.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter examines how feminist student activism in UK and US universities is resisting and challenging gender based violence (GBV), as well as the ways that the feminists' work is fostered by ...
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This chapter examines how feminist student activism in UK and US universities is resisting and challenging gender based violence (GBV), as well as the ways that the feminists' work is fostered by community building and connection. Drawing on data from a qualitative study of young women feminists in UK and US universities, the chapter investigates how feminist communities help young feminists to find their voice and to speak out about GBV. The chapter first considers how, in addition to developing effective systems of accountability, student activism is resisting GBV in universities and creating cultures which support freedom, resistance and respect. More specifically, it shows how students are coming together to form feminist communities to challenge the attitudes, behaviours and institutional practices that support GBV, while also developing pragmatic and theoretical approaches to GBV. It argues that feminist communities play a vital role in the struggle against GBV in universities.Less
This chapter examines how feminist student activism in UK and US universities is resisting and challenging gender based violence (GBV), as well as the ways that the feminists' work is fostered by community building and connection. Drawing on data from a qualitative study of young women feminists in UK and US universities, the chapter investigates how feminist communities help young feminists to find their voice and to speak out about GBV. The chapter first considers how, in addition to developing effective systems of accountability, student activism is resisting GBV in universities and creating cultures which support freedom, resistance and respect. More specifically, it shows how students are coming together to form feminist communities to challenge the attitudes, behaviours and institutional practices that support GBV, while also developing pragmatic and theoretical approaches to GBV. It argues that feminist communities play a vital role in the struggle against GBV in universities.
Tamar W. Carroll
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469619880
- eISBN:
- 9781469619903
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469619880.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Examining three interconnected case studies, this book demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on an ...
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Examining three interconnected case studies, this book demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on an array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post-World War II New York City, the text shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organization Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty. Highlighting the little-known National Congress of Neighborhood Women, it reveals the significant participation of working-class white ethnic women and women of color in New York City's feminist activism. Finally, the text traces the partnership between the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Women's Health Action Mobilization (WHAM!), showing how gay men and feminists collaborated to create a supportive community for those affected by the AIDS epidemic, to improve health care, and to oppose homophobia and misogyny during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. The book contends that social policies that encourage the political mobilization of marginalized groups and foster coalitions across identity differences are the most effective means of solving social problems and realizing democracy.Less
Examining three interconnected case studies, this book demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on an array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post-World War II New York City, the text shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organization Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty. Highlighting the little-known National Congress of Neighborhood Women, it reveals the significant participation of working-class white ethnic women and women of color in New York City's feminist activism. Finally, the text traces the partnership between the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Women's Health Action Mobilization (WHAM!), showing how gay men and feminists collaborated to create a supportive community for those affected by the AIDS epidemic, to improve health care, and to oppose homophobia and misogyny during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. The book contends that social policies that encourage the political mobilization of marginalized groups and foster coalitions across identity differences are the most effective means of solving social problems and realizing democracy.
Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190697846
- eISBN:
- 9780190697884
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190697846.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter summarizes our key findings and case studies and outlines directions for future scholarly inquiry. The Conclusion reiterates the importance of not only asking questions about what ...
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This chapter summarizes our key findings and case studies and outlines directions for future scholarly inquiry. The Conclusion reiterates the importance of not only asking questions about what digital feminism does, or how it is manifested, but how it is felt and experienced amongst participants. In particular, we draw out the implications of our findings to explore affective and material changes in the lives of our participants. We discuss how our research has revealed a range of new connectivities among girls and women and show the main aspects of what digital feminism can do including educating and transforming lives, and ask what it can achieve, especially considering its demanding nature. We consider these potentialities in light of recent surges of victims speaking out against sexual violence in #MeToo and #TimesUp.Less
This chapter summarizes our key findings and case studies and outlines directions for future scholarly inquiry. The Conclusion reiterates the importance of not only asking questions about what digital feminism does, or how it is manifested, but how it is felt and experienced amongst participants. In particular, we draw out the implications of our findings to explore affective and material changes in the lives of our participants. We discuss how our research has revealed a range of new connectivities among girls and women and show the main aspects of what digital feminism can do including educating and transforming lives, and ask what it can achieve, especially considering its demanding nature. We consider these potentialities in light of recent surges of victims speaking out against sexual violence in #MeToo and #TimesUp.
Bonnie J. Dow
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038563
- eISBN:
- 9780252096488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038563.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book focuses on the national television news narratives about the second wave of feminism that proliferated in 1970, a ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book focuses on the national television news narratives about the second wave of feminism that proliferated in 1970, a year in which the networks' eagerness to make sense of the movement for their viewers was accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their own purposes. The interaction of these efforts produced coverage that was distinguished by its contradictions—it ranged from sympathetic to patronizing, from thoughtful to sensationalistic, and from evenhanded to overtly dismissive. The effects of the movement's heightened public profile proved to be equally unpredictable. Even negative coverage had positive outcomes for movement growth; at the same time, some feminist media activism that proved surprisingly successful had an adverse effect on movement cohesion.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book focuses on the national television news narratives about the second wave of feminism that proliferated in 1970, a year in which the networks' eagerness to make sense of the movement for their viewers was accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their own purposes. The interaction of these efforts produced coverage that was distinguished by its contradictions—it ranged from sympathetic to patronizing, from thoughtful to sensationalistic, and from evenhanded to overtly dismissive. The effects of the movement's heightened public profile proved to be equally unpredictable. Even negative coverage had positive outcomes for movement growth; at the same time, some feminist media activism that proved surprisingly successful had an adverse effect on movement cohesion.
Chitra Sinha
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198078944
- eISBN:
- 9780199081479
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198078944.003.0031
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
The chapter assesses the contribution of the Hindu Code Bill in the construction of the modern Indian nation. Contrary to the existing perception that the Hindu Code Bill in its diluted form failed ...
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The chapter assesses the contribution of the Hindu Code Bill in the construction of the modern Indian nation. Contrary to the existing perception that the Hindu Code Bill in its diluted form failed to create a significant impact on modern Indian society, the analysis tries to capture the lasting imprints of the Hindu Code Bill on the modern Indian mind. With the help of theoretical tools and empirical analysis, the section locates the significance of the Hindu Code Bill controversy in independent India. It attempts to demonstrate that not only did the Hindu Code Bill provide the benchmark for the second wave of feminist activism in India in the 1970s and 1980s, it also shaped much of the subsequent legal debates surrounding the proper implementation of Hindu laws. The chapter argues that even in its truncated form, the passage of the Hindu Code Bill was important in shaping the gender consciousness in independent India and thereby influencing the process of law formation over the longer term.Less
The chapter assesses the contribution of the Hindu Code Bill in the construction of the modern Indian nation. Contrary to the existing perception that the Hindu Code Bill in its diluted form failed to create a significant impact on modern Indian society, the analysis tries to capture the lasting imprints of the Hindu Code Bill on the modern Indian mind. With the help of theoretical tools and empirical analysis, the section locates the significance of the Hindu Code Bill controversy in independent India. It attempts to demonstrate that not only did the Hindu Code Bill provide the benchmark for the second wave of feminist activism in India in the 1970s and 1980s, it also shaped much of the subsequent legal debates surrounding the proper implementation of Hindu laws. The chapter argues that even in its truncated form, the passage of the Hindu Code Bill was important in shaping the gender consciousness in independent India and thereby influencing the process of law formation over the longer term.
Elisabeta Zelinka
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312199
- eISBN:
- 9781846315626
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846312199.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter focuses on the ‘concentrationary legacies’ of state totalitarianism in Europe in the context of institutionalised anti-Semitism in contemporary Romania. It argues that anti-Semitism in ...
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This chapter focuses on the ‘concentrationary legacies’ of state totalitarianism in Europe in the context of institutionalised anti-Semitism in contemporary Romania. It argues that anti-Semitism in present-day Romania does not yet approximate the anti-Semitism of the 1930s, when it prospered as a direct result of Nazi propaganda, but continues to be a major problem which is difficult to contain within mainstream Romanian society. The chapter looks at attempts, with a particular emphasis on feminist activism, to fight residual or emergent anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Romania, for example by introducing educational programs designed to tackle the everyday problems facing Jews, especially Jewish women, in Romanian society. It considers Romania's admission to the European Union as an opportunity to contain institutionalised racism in accordance with imposed political and economic agendas, but contends that it may take years, even decades, before the status quo can be altered due to the deep-rooted sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic discourses in today's Romanian society.Less
This chapter focuses on the ‘concentrationary legacies’ of state totalitarianism in Europe in the context of institutionalised anti-Semitism in contemporary Romania. It argues that anti-Semitism in present-day Romania does not yet approximate the anti-Semitism of the 1930s, when it prospered as a direct result of Nazi propaganda, but continues to be a major problem which is difficult to contain within mainstream Romanian society. The chapter looks at attempts, with a particular emphasis on feminist activism, to fight residual or emergent anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Romania, for example by introducing educational programs designed to tackle the everyday problems facing Jews, especially Jewish women, in Romanian society. It considers Romania's admission to the European Union as an opportunity to contain institutionalised racism in accordance with imposed political and economic agendas, but contends that it may take years, even decades, before the status quo can be altered due to the deep-rooted sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic discourses in today's Romanian society.
Bogdan Popa
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474419826
- eISBN:
- 9781474435222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419826.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
In this chapter I discuss performative slurs as a tactic deployed by feminist activists in England in the 19th century. During debates about the Contagious Diseases Acts in England, feminists’ ...
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In this chapter I discuss performative slurs as a tactic deployed by feminist activists in England in the 19th century. During debates about the Contagious Diseases Acts in England, feminists’ radical and humiliating rhetoric resignified exclusionary political conventions such as prostitution laws and prohibitions against voting. While Josephine Butler chastised upper-class men who were part of the political elite for being hypocrites and sadistic villains, Mill used shaming and humiliation strategically in his articles and public interventions. Humiliating language can be a radical democratic act when it represents a risky intervention that imagines new possibilities of living for sex and gender marginals.Less
In this chapter I discuss performative slurs as a tactic deployed by feminist activists in England in the 19th century. During debates about the Contagious Diseases Acts in England, feminists’ radical and humiliating rhetoric resignified exclusionary political conventions such as prostitution laws and prohibitions against voting. While Josephine Butler chastised upper-class men who were part of the political elite for being hypocrites and sadistic villains, Mill used shaming and humiliation strategically in his articles and public interventions. Humiliating language can be a radical democratic act when it represents a risky intervention that imagines new possibilities of living for sex and gender marginals.
Bonnie J. Dow
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038563
- eISBN:
- 9780252096488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038563.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter focuses on the March 18, 1970, sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal (LHJ), a crucial episode in feminist media activism that had dramatic internal and external consequences for women's ...
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This chapter focuses on the March 18, 1970, sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal (LHJ), a crucial episode in feminist media activism that had dramatic internal and external consequences for women's liberation. Conceived as a radical action by a small group of women incensed at the demeaning portrayal of women in a publication that touted itself as “the magazine women believe in,” the LHJ protest was an unpredictable success, precipitating significant changes in editorial and employment practices at women's magazines. That outcome was the product of several factors, including the emphases of the print and broadcast coverage of the LHJ events as well as the action's timing among a wave of protests and discrimination complaints launched in 1970 by women employees of major media institutions. Equally important was the recognition of the magazine's editors—and those of their sister publications—that incorporating and commodifying women's liberation was more profitable than resisting it, processes that would soon escalate across all forms of mass media.Less
This chapter focuses on the March 18, 1970, sit-in at Ladies' Home Journal (LHJ), a crucial episode in feminist media activism that had dramatic internal and external consequences for women's liberation. Conceived as a radical action by a small group of women incensed at the demeaning portrayal of women in a publication that touted itself as “the magazine women believe in,” the LHJ protest was an unpredictable success, precipitating significant changes in editorial and employment practices at women's magazines. That outcome was the product of several factors, including the emphases of the print and broadcast coverage of the LHJ events as well as the action's timing among a wave of protests and discrimination complaints launched in 1970 by women employees of major media institutions. Equally important was the recognition of the magazine's editors—and those of their sister publications—that incorporating and commodifying women's liberation was more profitable than resisting it, processes that would soon escalate across all forms of mass media.
Laura K. Nelson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190265144
- eISBN:
- 9780190265175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190265144.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Democratization
Challenging the notion that public actions and political lobbying are the women’s movement’s main tactics, this chapter traces the history of an extra-institutional form of feminism—narrative-based ...
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Challenging the notion that public actions and political lobbying are the women’s movement’s main tactics, this chapter traces the history of an extra-institutional form of feminism—narrative-based consciousness-raising—from its inception in the 1910s through its contemporary online expression today. Rather than a product of second-wave feminism, narrative-based consciousness-raising has always been central to the women’s movement, as the chapter shows. Narrative-based consciousness-raising as a strategy assumes that, in order to change fundamental societal institutions such as marriage, the nuclear family, and the state, men and women must first change their consciousness about themselves and society. This strategy utilizes personal life stories, or life narratives, to reveal the collective roots of personal problems in order to effect this personal change. The persistence of this strategy through three waves of feminist activism demonstrates the value of raising collective awareness for fighting gendered oppression. The author argues that this continuity is a result of institutionalized knowledge and a response to similar historical circumstances, rather than direct connections between waves.Less
Challenging the notion that public actions and political lobbying are the women’s movement’s main tactics, this chapter traces the history of an extra-institutional form of feminism—narrative-based consciousness-raising—from its inception in the 1910s through its contemporary online expression today. Rather than a product of second-wave feminism, narrative-based consciousness-raising has always been central to the women’s movement, as the chapter shows. Narrative-based consciousness-raising as a strategy assumes that, in order to change fundamental societal institutions such as marriage, the nuclear family, and the state, men and women must first change their consciousness about themselves and society. This strategy utilizes personal life stories, or life narratives, to reveal the collective roots of personal problems in order to effect this personal change. The persistence of this strategy through three waves of feminist activism demonstrates the value of raising collective awareness for fighting gendered oppression. The author argues that this continuity is a result of institutionalized knowledge and a response to similar historical circumstances, rather than direct connections between waves.
Elena Vacchelli
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447339069
- eISBN:
- 9781447339106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447339069.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter draws on Digital Storytelling (DS), a process that allows research participants to tell their stories in their own words through a guided creative workshop that includes the use of ...
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This chapter draws on Digital Storytelling (DS), a process that allows research participants to tell their stories in their own words through a guided creative workshop that includes the use of digital technology, participatory approaches, and co-production of personal stories. As such, it is a method devised for bridging the gap between theory and experience and can be considered a social practice as well as a research method. During a workshop with migrant women, DS enabled all research participants to express personal truths that are worked on using technologies of telling, listening to each other's stories, writing, and giving each other comments and feedback within the group. In this chapter, DS is interpreted as embodied feminist research as it draws on repertoires of co-production that are typical of feminist activism and research.Less
This chapter draws on Digital Storytelling (DS), a process that allows research participants to tell their stories in their own words through a guided creative workshop that includes the use of digital technology, participatory approaches, and co-production of personal stories. As such, it is a method devised for bridging the gap between theory and experience and can be considered a social practice as well as a research method. During a workshop with migrant women, DS enabled all research participants to express personal truths that are worked on using technologies of telling, listening to each other's stories, writing, and giving each other comments and feedback within the group. In this chapter, DS is interpreted as embodied feminist research as it draws on repertoires of co-production that are typical of feminist activism and research.
Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesco
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831592
- eISBN:
- 9780824869311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831592.003.0018
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter reflects on the lessons advanced in previous chapters and returns three umbrella themes developed in the introduction. In doing so, the chapter finds that the first ...
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This chapter reflects on the lessons advanced in previous chapters and returns three umbrella themes developed in the introduction. In doing so, the chapter finds that the first two—representations/reproductions and spaces/borders—have endured while morphing in unanticipated directions, but the third—voices/bodies—has dispersed among the others and an unexpected newcomer—methods of scholarship/activism—has joined the fray. Representations/reproductions has developed to include the multiple levels and genres in which discursive practices produce and are produced by power relations. Spaces/borders has expanded to include physical arrangements of states, labor markets, families, bodies, clinics, schools, prisons, and security apparatuses. And finally, feminist methods of scholarship/activism has emerged as a theme due to these essays' shared reflections on how feminists study globalization.Less
This chapter reflects on the lessons advanced in previous chapters and returns three umbrella themes developed in the introduction. In doing so, the chapter finds that the first two—representations/reproductions and spaces/borders—have endured while morphing in unanticipated directions, but the third—voices/bodies—has dispersed among the others and an unexpected newcomer—methods of scholarship/activism—has joined the fray. Representations/reproductions has developed to include the multiple levels and genres in which discursive practices produce and are produced by power relations. Spaces/borders has expanded to include physical arrangements of states, labor markets, families, bodies, clinics, schools, prisons, and security apparatuses. And finally, feminist methods of scholarship/activism has emerged as a theme due to these essays' shared reflections on how feminists study globalization.
Simone de Beauvoir
Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036941
- eISBN:
- 9780252097201
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036941.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
This book offers an abundance of newly translated essays by the author that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The book documents and contextualizes the author’s ...
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This book offers an abundance of newly translated essays by the author that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The book documents and contextualizes the author’s thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. It traces nearly three decades of her leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the “two-state solution” in Israel. Together these texts prefigure the author’s later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization. The book provides new insights into the author’s complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women’s rights in France.Less
This book offers an abundance of newly translated essays by the author that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The book documents and contextualizes the author’s thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. It traces nearly three decades of her leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the “two-state solution” in Israel. Together these texts prefigure the author’s later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization. The book provides new insights into the author’s complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women’s rights in France.
Saida Hodžić
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520291980
- eISBN:
- 9780520965577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520291980.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
In the wake of the Constitution of 1992, Ghana criminalized cutting not once, but twice. In chapters 6 and 7, which should be read in conjunction, I investigate the intimate relationship between ...
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In the wake of the Constitution of 1992, Ghana criminalized cutting not once, but twice. In chapters 6 and 7, which should be read in conjunction, I investigate the intimate relationship between violence and law by analyzing, respectively the associated efforts to reform and enforce the law against cutting. Chapter 6, The Feminist Fetish: Legal Advocacy illuminates how GAWW’s advocacy for more severe legislation functions as an early instantiation of “zero tolerance to FGM” logic. I attend to Ghanaian advocates’ reckoning with both the power of law and the tensions within feminist liberalism, namely, those between protection and punishment, and freedom and violence.Less
In the wake of the Constitution of 1992, Ghana criminalized cutting not once, but twice. In chapters 6 and 7, which should be read in conjunction, I investigate the intimate relationship between violence and law by analyzing, respectively the associated efforts to reform and enforce the law against cutting. Chapter 6, The Feminist Fetish: Legal Advocacy illuminates how GAWW’s advocacy for more severe legislation functions as an early instantiation of “zero tolerance to FGM” logic. I attend to Ghanaian advocates’ reckoning with both the power of law and the tensions within feminist liberalism, namely, those between protection and punishment, and freedom and violence.
Melissa R. Klapper
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814748947
- eISBN:
- 9780814749463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814748947.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This concluding chapter reflects on the motivations of Jewish women engaged in early feminist activism, considering the importance of fluid, but ever-present, Jewish identity to every kind of social ...
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This concluding chapter reflects on the motivations of Jewish women engaged in early feminist activism, considering the importance of fluid, but ever-present, Jewish identity to every kind of social movement in which they became involved. Over a period of several decades and several generations, American Jewish women supported large-scale social movements that promised to grant them political authority and citizenship, enhance their power over their own bodies and families, and expand their roles in international relations through the promotion of peace. Though Jewish identity constantly fluctuated, many women held fast to their own ideas of what it meant to be Jewish; Jewishness often shaped their political commitments to secular causes. The chapter then discusses the impact of Jewish women on American women's feminist activism in order to understand the foundational and critical involvement of Jewish women in postwar feminism.Less
This concluding chapter reflects on the motivations of Jewish women engaged in early feminist activism, considering the importance of fluid, but ever-present, Jewish identity to every kind of social movement in which they became involved. Over a period of several decades and several generations, American Jewish women supported large-scale social movements that promised to grant them political authority and citizenship, enhance their power over their own bodies and families, and expand their roles in international relations through the promotion of peace. Though Jewish identity constantly fluctuated, many women held fast to their own ideas of what it meant to be Jewish; Jewishness often shaped their political commitments to secular causes. The chapter then discusses the impact of Jewish women on American women's feminist activism in order to understand the foundational and critical involvement of Jewish women in postwar feminism.
Susan Ware
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834541
- eISBN:
- 9781469603384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877999_ware.9
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter focuses on the time when Billie Jean King alerted readers of women-Sports to be on the lookout for “the largest gathering of tomboys and ex-tomboys in recent history.” She wasn't ...
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This chapter focuses on the time when Billie Jean King alerted readers of women-Sports to be on the lookout for “the largest gathering of tomboys and ex-tomboys in recent history.” She wasn't referring to a sporting event or pre-Olympic competition, but to the National Women's Conference to be held in Houston on November 18–20, 1977, in observance of International Women's Year (IWY). This gathering brought together 2,000 elected delegates from every state in the union, supplemented by almost 20,000 alternates, observers, and members of the press, to debate and eventually pass a national plan of action on women's issues. In many ways the Houston conference was the high point of feminist activism in the 1970s, as women of varying political agendas came together to build common ground.Less
This chapter focuses on the time when Billie Jean King alerted readers of women-Sports to be on the lookout for “the largest gathering of tomboys and ex-tomboys in recent history.” She wasn't referring to a sporting event or pre-Olympic competition, but to the National Women's Conference to be held in Houston on November 18–20, 1977, in observance of International Women's Year (IWY). This gathering brought together 2,000 elected delegates from every state in the union, supplemented by almost 20,000 alternates, observers, and members of the press, to debate and eventually pass a national plan of action on women's issues. In many ways the Houston conference was the high point of feminist activism in the 1970s, as women of varying political agendas came together to build common ground.
Dipannita Datta
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198099994
- eISBN:
- 9780199085415
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099994.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Has the battle for equality solved problems of woman in society? Has the cry for woman’s emancipation from her degraded condition liberated women in India and in the world? This volume analyses the ...
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Has the battle for equality solved problems of woman in society? Has the cry for woman’s emancipation from her degraded condition liberated women in India and in the world? This volume analyses the life and works of one of the foremost Indian women writers, Ashapurna Devi (1905–1995), from the point of view of her as an author of an ex-colony, and the changes and stirrings of the new social order she saw as India moved from the colonial to the postcolonial times. While remaining sensitive to her feminist insights, it is underscored that the meaning of feminism within the Indian discourse needs to be expanded in terms of the particular social and political reality of the times. The volume, therefore, as it examines her trenchant critique on certain gendered assumptions prevalent in society, equally brings to the fore Ashapurna’s comprehensive understanding of men and women not as ‘opposing parties’. Expanding the meaning of feminism along the lines of human solidarity and hopes for future, by maintaining difference from exclusiveness and deference for a culture that transcends the male–female dichotomy, this study shows that feminism is a vibrant contemporary force in India. Through Ashapurna’s literary feminist activism this volume invites rethinking of Indian feminism as much as its praxis, which is not the rejection of patriarchal culture as a solution to the ‘women’s question’. In fact, feminism in the context of India that has its roots in the antahpur days is an advanced social and literary discourse on the empowerment of women.Less
Has the battle for equality solved problems of woman in society? Has the cry for woman’s emancipation from her degraded condition liberated women in India and in the world? This volume analyses the life and works of one of the foremost Indian women writers, Ashapurna Devi (1905–1995), from the point of view of her as an author of an ex-colony, and the changes and stirrings of the new social order she saw as India moved from the colonial to the postcolonial times. While remaining sensitive to her feminist insights, it is underscored that the meaning of feminism within the Indian discourse needs to be expanded in terms of the particular social and political reality of the times. The volume, therefore, as it examines her trenchant critique on certain gendered assumptions prevalent in society, equally brings to the fore Ashapurna’s comprehensive understanding of men and women not as ‘opposing parties’. Expanding the meaning of feminism along the lines of human solidarity and hopes for future, by maintaining difference from exclusiveness and deference for a culture that transcends the male–female dichotomy, this study shows that feminism is a vibrant contemporary force in India. Through Ashapurna’s literary feminist activism this volume invites rethinking of Indian feminism as much as its praxis, which is not the rejection of patriarchal culture as a solution to the ‘women’s question’. In fact, feminism in the context of India that has its roots in the antahpur days is an advanced social and literary discourse on the empowerment of women.
Alice J. Kang
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199340101
- eISBN:
- 9780199380077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199340101.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Who in civil society seeks to influence the representation of women's interests and how, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes? Relatively little is known about the full range of actors ...
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Who in civil society seeks to influence the representation of women's interests and how, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes? Relatively little is known about the full range of actors outside the state who care about the representation of women's interests. To more fully explore the who and how questions of women's representation, this chapter examines the feminist activists and Catholic activists who mobilized around the African Union's treaty on women's rights, the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The chapter finds that feminists and Catholics employed multilevel strategies in their attempts to influence whether governments would ratify the African Union's treaty. Activists in democracies and autocracies engaged in international networking as well as domestic lobbying, protesting, and consciousness-raising.Less
Who in civil society seeks to influence the representation of women's interests and how, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes? Relatively little is known about the full range of actors outside the state who care about the representation of women's interests. To more fully explore the who and how questions of women's representation, this chapter examines the feminist activists and Catholic activists who mobilized around the African Union's treaty on women's rights, the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The chapter finds that feminists and Catholics employed multilevel strategies in their attempts to influence whether governments would ratify the African Union's treaty. Activists in democracies and autocracies engaged in international networking as well as domestic lobbying, protesting, and consciousness-raising.
Laura Micheletti Puaca
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469610818
- eISBN:
- 9781469614441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469610818.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter focuses on efforts to expand women’s participation in scientific fields amid the second wave of American feminism and changing national security concerns. In addition to addressing how ...
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This chapter focuses on efforts to expand women’s participation in scientific fields amid the second wave of American feminism and changing national security concerns. In addition to addressing how older organizations for women modified their work, it also examines the formation of new women’s scientific societies. The chapter pays particular attention to how many of the activities carried out by this generation of reformers extended, altered, and adapted earlier advocates’ core ideas. While emboldened to take a more explicitly feminist approach, second-wave activists targeted many of the same obstacles to women’s scientific participation. Also important is the fact that both generations periodically resorted to the assumptions and strategies of “technocratic feminism,” thereby illuminating important threads of continuity with the past.Less
This chapter focuses on efforts to expand women’s participation in scientific fields amid the second wave of American feminism and changing national security concerns. In addition to addressing how older organizations for women modified their work, it also examines the formation of new women’s scientific societies. The chapter pays particular attention to how many of the activities carried out by this generation of reformers extended, altered, and adapted earlier advocates’ core ideas. While emboldened to take a more explicitly feminist approach, second-wave activists targeted many of the same obstacles to women’s scientific participation. Also important is the fact that both generations periodically resorted to the assumptions and strategies of “technocratic feminism,” thereby illuminating important threads of continuity with the past.
Laura Micheletti Puaca
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469610818
- eISBN:
- 9781469614441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469610818.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This introductory chapter begins with a description of how feminists used the language and cause of national security, during the period between the Second World War and early Cold War era, to ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a description of how feminists used the language and cause of national security, during the period between the Second World War and early Cold War era, to promote women’s education and employment, especially in the fields of science and engineering. It then sets out the book’s purpose, which is to illuminate the history of feminist interest in science before feminism’s second wave and to trace continuities between early and later efforts. An extended treatment of reformers’ use of scientific manpower concerns and national security prerogatives will expand the understanding of the problems and possibilities that they encountered along the way. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a description of how feminists used the language and cause of national security, during the period between the Second World War and early Cold War era, to promote women’s education and employment, especially in the fields of science and engineering. It then sets out the book’s purpose, which is to illuminate the history of feminist interest in science before feminism’s second wave and to trace continuities between early and later efforts. An extended treatment of reformers’ use of scientific manpower concerns and national security prerogatives will expand the understanding of the problems and possibilities that they encountered along the way. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
David Gadd
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861344939
- eISBN:
- 9781447301554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861344939.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
After a lengthy period of neglect within the field of criminology, the study of men's violence on female partners gained prominence during the 1980s as a result of feminist activism and feminist ...
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After a lengthy period of neglect within the field of criminology, the study of men's violence on female partners gained prominence during the 1980s as a result of feminist activism and feminist research with victim and survivors. Attention was directed to the pervasive and extensive nature of violence against women, the greater danger posed by men that women knew, the continuous relationship between physical and sexual assaults and emotional abuse, and the criminal and dangerous consequences of this abuse. Yet, it was only in the mid- to late-1990s that British government tool a developed coordinated response to the problem of ‘domestic violence’. This chapter examines the way political posturing about male violence, which is prevalent in domestic violence work, can be subverted through biographical approaches that enable a more dynamic and analytical approach to notions of masculinity, and therewith more searching and effective practice. It also shows how, in the process of giving such help, worker's own biographies are inevitably brought into play.Less
After a lengthy period of neglect within the field of criminology, the study of men's violence on female partners gained prominence during the 1980s as a result of feminist activism and feminist research with victim and survivors. Attention was directed to the pervasive and extensive nature of violence against women, the greater danger posed by men that women knew, the continuous relationship between physical and sexual assaults and emotional abuse, and the criminal and dangerous consequences of this abuse. Yet, it was only in the mid- to late-1990s that British government tool a developed coordinated response to the problem of ‘domestic violence’. This chapter examines the way political posturing about male violence, which is prevalent in domestic violence work, can be subverted through biographical approaches that enable a more dynamic and analytical approach to notions of masculinity, and therewith more searching and effective practice. It also shows how, in the process of giving such help, worker's own biographies are inevitably brought into play.
