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Gifra Adroher, Pere, and Jacqueline Hurtley. Hannah Lynch and Spain. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-292-5.
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For the first time the current volume brings together a fully annotated edition of Hannah Lynch’s articles on Spain – many of which are devoted to travel – together with a critical study of her connections with the country. Lynch, a cosmopolitan New Woman, viewed Spain with ambivalence, impatient of its resistance to change yet seduced by its landscapes and peoples. Her writing, revealing of her commitment to women’s emancipation, warrants attention from those wishing to further explore women’s contributions to the cultural and literary relations between Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula.
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1945-, Clements Barbara Evans, Engel Barbara Alpern, and Worobec Christine, eds. Russia's women: Accommodation, resistance, transformation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
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Gender & globalization: Patterns of women's resistance. Whitby, ON, Canada: de Sitter Publications, 2011.
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Women in the resistance. New York: Praeger, 1986.
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Rossiter, Margaret L. Women in the resistance. New York, U.S.A: Praeger, 1986.
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Rhetoric and resistance in Black women's autobiography. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
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Women and depression: Recovery and resistance. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge, 2009.
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Women's voices, women's power: Dialogues of resistance from East Africa. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, 1997.
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1936-, Gilligan Carol, Rogers Annie G, and Tolman Deborah L, eds. Women, girls, & psychotherapy: Reframing resistance. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1991.
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Jasam, Saima. Honour shame & resistance. Lahore: ASR Publications, 2001.
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Walker, Cherryl. Women and resistance in South Africa. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991.
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McAllister, Pam. This river of courage: Generations of women's resistance and action. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991.
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Saskia, Wieringa, ed. Subversive women: Historical experiences of gender and resistance. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1995.
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Bailey, Moya. Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance. NYU Press, 2021.
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Joseph, Ralina L. Postracial Resistance. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479862825.001.0001.
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Postracial Resistance: Black Women and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity looks at how, in the first Black First Lady era, African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse—the media-propagated notion that race and race-based discrimination are over, and that race and racism no longer affect the everyday lives of both Whites and people of color—in order to resist its very tenets. Black women’s resistance to disenfranchisement has a long history in the U.S., including struggles for emancipation, suffrage, and de jure and de facto civil rights. In the Michelle Obama era, some minoritized subjects used a different, more individual form of resistance by negotiating through strategic ambiguity. Joseph listens to and watches Black women in three different places in media culture: she uses textual analysis to read the strategies of the Black women celebrities themselves; she uses production analysis to harvest insights from interviews with Black women writers, producers, and studio lawyers; and she uses audience ethnography to engage Black women viewers negotiating through the limited representations available to them. The book arcs from critiquing individual successes that strategic ambiguity enables and the limitations it creates for Black women celebrities, to documenting the way performing strategic ambiguity can (perhaps) unintentionally devolve into playing into racism from the perspective of Black women television professionals and younger viewers.
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Brown, Caroline A., and Johanna X. K. Garvey. Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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Fisher, Dana R. Climate of Resistance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886172.003.0006.
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How has the climate movement connected with the Resistance? This chapter explores the ways the 2017 People’s Climate March built on the momentum of the Resistance to mobilize a crowd with intersectional interests. First, data collected through random surveys of participants at the People’s Climate March in September 2014 are compared with those collected at the People’s Climate March in 2017. The results show how the movement has changed over that 3-year period. Next, the results from the 2017 March are compared with data collected from the Women’s March in 2017. As at the Women’s March, the 2017 People’s Climate March mobilized a crowd with intersectional interests that cross racial identity, class, gender, and sexuality. There is evidence from this analysis that the climate movement has become part of the growing Resistance. This chapter concludes by discussing the implications of these findings on the climate movement and the Resistance more generally.
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McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. Mothers of Massive Resistance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271718.001.0001.
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Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, this book argues that white segregationist women constituted the grassroots workforce for racial segregation. For decades, they censored textbooks, campaigned against the United Nations, denied marriage certificates, celebrated school choice, and lobbied elected officials. They trained generations, built national networks, collapsed their duties as white mothers with those of citizenship, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Their work beyond legislative halls empowered the Jim Crow order with a flexibility and a kind of staying power. With white women at the center of the story, massive resistance and the rise of postwar conservatism rises out of white women’s grassroots work in homes, schools, political parties, and culture. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown Decision and persisted past the removal of “white only” signs in 1964 and through the anti-busing protests. White women’s segregationist politics involved foreign affairs, economic policy, family values, strict constitutionalism, states’ rights, and white supremacy. It stretched across the nation and overlapped with and helped shape the rise of the New Right. In the end, this history compels us to confront the reign of racial segregation as a national story. It asks us to reconsider who sustained the Jim Crow order, who bears responsibility for the persistence of the nation’s inequities, and what it will take to make good on the nation’s promise of equality.
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Román-Odio, C., and M. Sierra. Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks: The Making of Cultural Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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White, Michele. Women’s Nail Polish Blogging and Femininity. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039577.003.0008.
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This chapter demonstrates the ways nail polish bloggers have conceptualized the limits and the limitations of femininity without narrowly defining femininity. Nail polish bloggers, informed by general cultural perceptions, understand polish as feminine. In a related manner, society identifies nail polish as a low form. Yet nail bloggers also trouble cultural conceptions of normative femininity through their inability and resistance to wholly describing and identifying the feminine. These bloggers critique some aspects of feminine culture and identify the expectations that prevent them from moving beyond certain applications and norms. They emphasize the produced aspects of their nails and bodies and thereby undermine the idea that women and femininity are natural states.
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Grabe, Shelly. Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women’s Human Rights, Liberation, and Social Justice. Edited by Phillip L. Hammack. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199938735.013.20.
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The paradigm of transnational feminism emerged in response to the economic and social dislocation that has disproportionately exacerbated women’s rights violations since the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy in the 1980s and 1990s. This chapter proposes that to have a better understanding of women’s rights and justice, contributions from a social justice-oriented psychology that integrates feminist scholarship and empirical findings based on women’s grassroots resistance and activism are necessary. It proposes a transnational feminist liberation psychology whereby researchers (1) work from the grassroots by fostering meaningful alliances with others working outside the academy in a joint pursuit of liberation, (2) use methodology that investigates sites of resistance, bringing visibility to a fuller spectrum of women’s lived experience, and (3) recognize how dimensions of power and inequality impact research. Given the persistent violations of women’s rights globally, it is imperative to understand the psychosocial conditions that lead to justice.
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Carli, Linda L. Social Influence and Gender. Edited by Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams, and Jerry Burger. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859870.013.16.
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This chapter reviews current research on gender and social influence. Overall, men exert greater influence than women do. Women’s disadvantage derives from gender stereotypes that characterize men as more competent and agentic than women and that require women to be more selfless and communal than men. Both agentic and communal behaviors predict influence. As a result, women are subjected to a double bind. They may lack influence because of doubt about their competence, or they may lack influence because their competent behavior elicits concern that they are insufficiently communal. In contrast, men have greater behavioral flexibility than women do as influence agents. Men tend to be more resistant to women’s influence than women are, particularly when female influence agents behave in a highly competent manner. Resistance to female influence can be reduced in contexts that are stereotypically feminine and when women display a blend of agentic and communal qualities.
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Grabe, Shelly, ed. Women's Human Rights. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614614.001.0001.
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Women’s Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice contributes to the discussion of why women’s human rights warrant increased focus in the context of globalization. It considers how psychology can provide the links between transnational feminism and the discourse on women’s human rights and neoliberalism by using activist scholarship and empirical findings based on women’s grassroots resistance. The book takes a radically different approach to women’s human rights than disciplines such as law, for example, by developing new ideas regarding how psychology can be relevant in the study or actualization of women’s human rights and by making clear how activist-scholarship can make a unique contribution to the defense of women’s rights. This radical departure from using a legal framework, or examples that have been sensationalized throughout academia and advocacy (e.g., genital cutting), provides a route for better understanding how the mechanisms of violation operate. Thus, it has the potential to offer alternatives for intervention that extend beyond changing laws or monitoring international human rights treaties. The perspectives offered by the authors are largely informed by feminist liberation psychology, women of color, and critical race and queer theories in an attempt to demonstrate how research in psychology can shed light on the diverse experiences of women resisting human rights violations and to suggest means by which psychological processes can effectively challenge the broader structures of power that exacerbate the violation of women’s rights.
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McCammon, Holly J., Verta Taylor, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190204204.001.0001.
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Women have long been involved in social movement activism in the United States, from the nation’s beginning up to the present, and in waves of feminist activism as well as in a variety of other social movements, including the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and conservative mobilizations. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism provides both a detailed and extensive examination of the wide range of U.S. women’s collective efforts, as well as a broad overview of the scholarship on women’s social movement struggles. The volume’s five sections consider various dimensions of women’s social movement activism: (1) women’s collective action over time exploring the long history of women’s social movement participation, (2) the variety of social issues that mobilize women to act collectively, (3) the myriad types of resistance strategies and tactics utilized by activists, (4) both the forums and targets of women’s mobilizations, and (5) women’s participation in a diversity of activist efforts beyond women’s movements. The five sections present a total of thirty-six chapters, each written by leading scholars of women’s social movement mobilizations. The chapters, in addition to describing women’s activism and reviewing the scholarly literature, also define important directions for future research on women and social movements, providing scholars with a guide to what we still do not know about women’s collective struggles.
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Bullock, Heather E. From “Welfare Queens” to “Welfare Warriors”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614614.003.0004.
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This chapter examines what it means to take a human rights approach to women’s poverty and economic status. Special attention is given to structural sources of women’s poverty, the challenges a right-based framework presents to neoliberal priorities and values, and low-income women’s resistance to these forces. Synergies among economic and political conditions; ideology (e.g., individualism, meritocracy); classist, racist, and sexist stereotypes about poverty and low-income women; and welfare policies that subordinate and regulate low-income women are discussed. Emphasis is placed on understanding welfare rights activism and other anti-poverty/inequality collectives, with the goal of illuminating the social psychological factors that contribute to collective action, economic justice, and the promotion of a rights-based approach to women’s poverty.
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Harsch, Donna. Communism and Women. Edited by Stephen A. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602056.013.028.
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This article discusses women and gender relations under communism, beginning in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, continuing through the Cold War era in Eastern Europe, and including Cuba and China today. It addresses communist gender theory, ideology, and discourse. Women’s role in politics and government is discussed. The article covers employment and education, the peasant and urban family, social policies, and socialist consumption. Under communism, the article argues, women, especially married mothers, broke through traditional resistance to women’s participation in paid, including skilled, labour. Their levels of education and employment increased dramatically in most communist states. Yet women did not attain economic equality with men in any communist society and their share of political power remained stunningly low.
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Stephan, Rita, and Mounira M. Charrad, eds. Women Rising. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.001.0001.
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Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, and artists to highlight the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests, which first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including those of rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first-century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.
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McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. The New National Face of Segregation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271718.003.0010.
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The conclusion addresses the urban North, exposing the political similarities between the most committed segregationists and those white women who protested busing in the 1970s. It argues that anti-busing activists should be considered segregationists and that massive resistance should be extended into anti-busing protests. Most Americans, including supporters of Brown, resisted this government intrusion into parental authority, property values, and school choice. As southern segregationists had predicted, when racial integration threatened to reorder the daily lives of northern white communities, they would react much like the South’s segregationists. Women’s organizations in Boston looked south for models of resistance and worked for various iterations of racially separated schools. Boston’s Louise Day Hicks and ROAR reacted much like white mothers in the South. Across the nation, law made busing a reality, while white women’s opposition on the ground eroded the power of its implementation and solidified the rise of the New Right.
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Khader, Serene J. Gender Role Eliminativism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664190.003.0006.
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This chapter asks whether postcolonial defenses of feminized power and criticisms of the incorporation of women into a gender-neutral public sphere can be understood as compatible with feminism. It argues that the tools of nonideal universalism can explain why many such postcolonial views are more compatible with feminism than is often thought. Three missionary-feminist confusions identified here—the idealization of the territorial public, the idealization of Western cultural forms, and the culturalist category error—impede Western feminist attempts to render accurate normative judgments about “other” women’s exercises of power. Normative guidelines for a transnational feminist position capable of avoiding these confusions will recognize that judgments about resistance concern justice enhancement rather than justice achievement, that resistance should be judged according to a historical baseline, that feminist normative ideals need not function as blueprints, and that information about imperialism and global structures is important when determining which strategies for resistance are likely to be effective. The chapter also discusses how these normative guidelines can be used to explain how Leila Ahmed’s defense of Muslim women’s homosociality and Nkiru Nzwgwu’s defense of a gender-differentiated public can be made compatible with feminism.
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Sobieraj, Sarah. Credible Threat. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190089283.001.0001.
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This book argues that the rampant hate-filled attacks against women online are best understood as patterned resistance to women’s political voice and visibility. This abuse and harassment coalesces into an often-unrecognized form of gender inequality that constrains women’s use of digital public spaces, much as the pervasive threat of sexual intimidation and violence constrain women’s freedom and comfort in physical public spaces. What’s more, the abuse exacerbates inequality among women, those from racial, ethnic, religious, and/or other minority groups, are disproportionately targeted. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women who have been on the receiving end of digital hate, Credible Threat shows that the onslaught of epithets and stereotypes, rape threats, and unsolicited commentary about their physical appearance and sexual desirability come at great professional, personal, and psychological costs for the women targeted—and also with underexplored societal level costs that demand attention. When effective, identity-based attacks undermine women’s contributions to public discourse, create a climate of self-censorship, and at times, push women out of digital publics altogether. Given the uneven distribution of toxicity, those women whose voices are already most underrepresented (e.g., women in male-dominated fields, those from historically undervalued groups) are particularly at risk. In the end, identity-based attacks online erode civil liberties, diminish public discourse, limit the knowledge we have to inform policy and electoral decision making, and teach all women that activism and public service are unappealing, high-risk endeavors to be avoided.
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Meyer, David S., and Sidney Tarrow. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886172.003.0001.
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Beginning with a review of the first Women’s March, this Introduction details the sudden and strong emergence of a movement in resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump (the Resistance movement). It identifies the new movement as posing three distinct challenges: to scholars of social movements; to the American Left; and to the stability and resilience of American institutions. This Introduction identifies antecedents and foundations of the Trump Resistance, including the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and immigrants’ rights movements. It situates the Resistance in a historical context. It also places the Resistance in a broader context of protest politics in America.
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Roye, Susmita. Mothering India. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190126254.001.0001.
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Mothering India concentrates on early Indian women’s fiction, not only evaluating their contribution to the rise of Indian Writing in English (IWE), but also exploring how they reassessed and challenged stereotypes about Indian womanhood, thereby partaking in the larger debate about social reform legislations relating to women’s rights in British India. Early women’s writings are of immense archival significance by virtue of the time period they were conceived in. In wielding their pens, these trend-setting women writers (such as Krupa Satthianadhan, Shevantibai Nikambe, Cornelia Sorabji, Nalini Turkhud, among others) stepped into the literary landscape as ‘speaking subjects,’ refusing to remain confined into the passivity of ‘spoken-of objects.’ In focusing on the literary contribution of pioneering Indian women writers, this book also endeavours to explore their contribution to the formation of the image of their nation and womanhood. Some of the complex questions this book tackles are: Particularly when India was forming a vague idea of her nationhood and was getting increasingly portrayed in terms of femaleness (via the figure of an enchained ‘Mother India’), what role did women and their literary endeavours play in shaping both their nation and their femininity/feminism? How and how far did these pioneering authors use fiction as a tool of protest against and as resistance to the Raj and/or native patriarchy, and also to express their gender-based solidarity? How do they view and review the stereotypes about their fellow women, and thereby ‘mother’ India by redefining her image? Without studying women’s perspective in the movement for women’s rights (as expressed in their literature) and their role in ‘mothering India’, our knowledge and understanding of those issues are far from holistic. A detailed study of these largely understudied, sadly forgotten and/or deliberately overlooked ‘mothers’ of IWE is long overdue and this book aims to redress that critical oversight.
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Miller, Shae. Sexuality, Gender Identity, Fluidity, and Embodiment. Edited by Holly J. McCammon, Verta Taylor, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190204204.013.13.
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Social movement activists have frequently used a variety of embodied tactics to negotiate cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality, which are in constant flux. This chapter attends to the ways that new social formations of gender and sexuality—including the recent emphases on gender and sexual fluidity—have impacted the politics, goals, tactics, and identities of contemporary women’s movements. Incorporating queer, transgender, critical race, and disability studies, this chapter emphasizes the ways that women seeking to attain gender and sexual justice have used the body both as a site of everyday resistance against repressive gender and sexual norms and as a tool for performing overt political protests. It illustrates how gender and sexual fluidity have gained new traction within social movements and discusses the implications for conceptualizing women’s activism.
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Yohe, Kristine. Enslaved Women’s Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio” and Toni Morrison’S Beloved and Margaret Garner. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037900.003.0005.
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This chapter examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's 1857 poem “The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio,” Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved, and Morrison's 2004 libretto Margaret Garner. Through examining the various interpretations of Margaret Garner's history in the poem, novel, and opera, it becomes clear that her rebellious act resulted in metaphorical cultural survival even though her daughter did not literally survive. In other words, through the sacrifice of her child, Garner transcended her bondage, exerting her claim for maternal power over the tomb of institutional subjugation. Moreover, through asserting her right to decide what happened to her children, Garner defied slavery by surrendering the physical flesh in order to allow the metaphysical spirit to survive. Through these different genres, Harper and Morrison reconfigure the circumstances of Garner's decision, with powerful effect.
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Donahue, Jennifer. Taking Flight. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828637.001.0001.
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Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by authors such as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn illustrate the deep-rooted consequences of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race, and trace the steps that women take to find safer ground from oppression. Taking Flight takes a closer look at the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women’s writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores. In the texts examined in Taking Flight, culturally sanctioned violence impacts the ability of female characters to be at home in their bodies or in the spaces they inhabit. The works draw attention to the historic racialization and sexualization of Black women’s bodies and continue the legacy of narrating Black women’s long-standing contestation of systems of oppression. Arguing that there is a clear link between trauma, shame, and migration, with trauma serving as a precursor to the protagonists’ emigration, the work focuses on how female bodies are policed, how moral, racial, and sexual codes are linked, and how the enforcement of social norms can function as a form of trauma. Taking Flight positions flight as a powerful counter to disempowerment and considers how flight, whether through dissociation or migration, operates as a form of resistance.
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Richter-Devroe, Sophie. Women's Political Activism in Palestine. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041860.001.0001.
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What does doing politics mean in a context of occupation, settler-colonialism, and prolonged state violence such as Palestine? This book traces Palestinian women’s forms of political activism, ranging from peacebuilding and popular resistance to their everyday survival and coping strategies. Over the last decades, the Israeli occupation has tightened its grip on Palestinian life; settler-colonial violence against Palestinians has risen, and Palestine is more fragmented—politically, socially and spatially—than ever. For most Palestinians, neither the official liberal peace agenda nor the liberationist resistance paradigm offers promising solutions to unlock the status quo of political paralysis in Palestine today. Instead, they simply try to get by and struggle through quotidian, small-scale, informal efforts to establish a livable environment for themselves and their loved ones. Women play a major role in these micro politics. The ethnographically grounded analysis in this book focuses on the intricate dynamics of daily life in Palestine, tracing the emergent politics that women practice and articulate there. Rather than being guided by larger categories, such as party politics, social movements, or binaries between the public and the private, it zeroes in on women’s own, often complex and ambiguous, everyday politics. Shedding light on contemporary gendered political culture and alternative “politics from below” in the region, the books invites a rethinking of the functionings, shapes, and boundaries of the political.
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Arriola, Leonardo, Martha Johnson, and Melanie Phillips, eds. Women and Power in Africa. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898074.001.0001.
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This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women’s efforts to become party candidates in four African countries: Benin, Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia. The chapters draw on a variety of methods, including extensive interviews with women candidates, to describe and assess the barriers confronted when women seek to enter politics. The chapters help explain why women remain underrepresented as candidates for office, particularly in countries without gender-based quotas, by emphasizing the impact of financial constraints, fears of violence, and resistance among party leaders. Part II turns to women’s experiences as candidates during elections in Kenya and Ghana. One chapter provides an in-depth account of a woman’s presidential bid in Kenya, demonstrating how gendered ethnicity undermined her candidacy, and another chapter presents a novel evaluation of the media’s coverage of women candidates in Ghana. Part III turns to women as legislators in Namibia, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, asking whether women engage in substantive representation on gendered policy issues once in office. The chapters challenge the assumption that a critical mass of women is necessary or sufficient to achieve substantive representation. Taken together, the book’s chapters problematize existing hypotheses regarding women in political power, drawing on understudied countries and a variety of empirical methods. By following political pathways from entry to governance, the book uncovers how gendered experiences early in the political process shape what is possible for women once they attain political power.
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Höpfl, Heather. Luce Irigaray (1930b). Edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, and Robin Holt. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669356.013.0033.
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Born in Belgium in 1930, Luce Irigaray is a French feminist, philosopher, linguist, and psychoanalyst whose work poses a radical challenge not least to teleological order. Known for her resistance to being reduced by biography, Irigaray has come under attack by critics within feminism itself. In 1974 she published one of her most influential works, Speculum, de l’autre femme, which challenges the phallocentricism of both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and of philosophy. This chapter explores how women’s being is seen, specifically by Irigaray, and how women might subvert the lexicon.
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Dutt, Anjali. Being Bold. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614614.003.0010.
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As the conclusion to the book Women’s Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice, this chapter discusses values psychologists interested in building a justice-centered psychology of human rights should consider. In particular, this chapter focuses on the neoliberal context that characterizes global society and emphasizes the consequent growing need for justice-oriented approaches to psychosocial research. Discussion regarding ways each of the contributing chapters to the volume exemplify values of resistance, liberation, and justice is also included. The chapter ends with a call to embolden researchers to increasingly align their work with efforts to promote justice-oriented change in communities.
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Müller, Anna. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499860.003.0007.
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The conclusion returns to some of the questions asked throughout the book while highlighting the major points of the book. In addition, it also focuses on women’s attitudes toward Communism and their post-prison evaluation of their imprisonment. Did the years in prison contribute to sentiments of anti-Communism or did they make them into Communists? In other words, was political imprisonment a school of political resistance? Or was it a school of political opportunism that broke them into docile followers of Communism? What stands out is their ambivalent attitude toward the regime—neither enthusiasm nor outward rejection. The end of the conclusion discuss the concept of postawa as something the women used to describe their behavior in prisons.
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Berry, Daina Ramey, and Nakia D. Parker. Women and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222628.013.9.
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This chapter analyzes the lives of enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States and the Caribbean, an era characterized by the massive expansion of the institution of chattel slavery. Framing the discussion through the themes of labor, commodification, sexuality, and resistance, this chapter highlights the wide range of lived experiences of enslaved women in the Atlantic World. Enslaved women’s productive and reproductive labor fueled the global machinery of capitalism and the market economy. Although enslaved women endured the constant exploitation and commodification of their bodies, many actively resisted their enslavement and carved out supportive and sustaining familial, marital, and kinship bonds. In addition, this essay explains how white, native, and black women could be complicit in the perpetuation of chattel slavery as enslavers and slave traders. Considering women in their roles as the oppressed and the oppressors contributes and expands historical understandings of gender and sexuality in relation to slavery.
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Zavella, Patricia. The Movement for Reproductive Justice. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479829200.001.0001.
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Working on behalf of women of color, the movement for reproductive justice incorporates intersectionality and human rights to advocate for women’s right to bear children free from coercion or abuse, terminate their pregnancies without obstacles or judgment, and raise their children in healthy environments as well as the right to bodily autonomy and gender self-identification. The movement for reproductive justice takes health advocacy further by pushing for women’s human right to access health care with dignity and to express their full selves, including their spiritual beliefs, as well as policies that address social inequalities and lead to greater wellness in communities of color. The evidence is drawn from ethnographic research with thirteen organizations located throughout the United States. The overall argument is that the organizations discussed here provide a compelling model for negotiating across differences within constituencies. This movement has built a repertoire of “ready-to-work skills” or methodology that includes cross-sector coalition building, storytelling in safer spaces, and strengths-based messaging. In the ongoing political clashes in which the war on women’s reproductive rights and targeting of immigrants seem particularly egregious and there are widespread questions about whether “the resistance” can maintain its cohesion, the movement for reproductive justice offers a model for multiscalar politics in opposition to conservative agendas and the disparagement of specific social categories. Using grassroots organizing, culture shift work, and policy advocacy, this movement also offers visions of the strength, resiliency, and dignity of people of color.
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Williams, Shannen Dee. Subversive Habits. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022817.
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In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women’s religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters—such as Sister Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and join the Black voting rights marches of 1965—were pioneering religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic women’s religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and racial segregation—and thus an important battleground in the long African American freedom struggle.
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Brysk, Alison. The Struggle for Freedom from Fear. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190901516.001.0001.
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One out of three women in the world has suffered gender-based violence. Yet from #metoo to Malala to Maria da Penha, women are rising up and pushing back. The purpose of this book is to show how to transform fear to freedom through a combination of international action, legal reform, public policy, mobilization, and value transformation. The Struggle analyzes drivers of violence and strategies for resistance in the semi-liberal countries at the frontiers of globalization. These hot-spots of violence represent the highly unequal middle-income countries, with declining citizenship and surging social conflict that now host two-thirds of the world’s population. The book profiles struggles against femicide, rape, trafficking, and related abuses in Brazil, India, South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, Egypt, and Turkey in detail, with contrast cases beyond. Using the dual lenses of human rights and feminist theory of “gender regimes,” the book argues that different repertoires of abuse require distinct dynamics of change. Thus, The Struggle profiles strategies for transforming gendered power relations through multi-level campaigns on access to law and impunity, rights-based public policy, promotion of women’s agency, transforming violent masculinity, and reproductive rights. This study of campaigns to end gender violence at the frontiers of globalization expands our understanding of human rights reform pathways worldwide, and the interdependence of women’s rights with all struggles for justice.
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Chamberlen, Anastasia. Embodying Punishment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749240.001.0001.
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This book offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women’s lived experiences of imprisonment in England. It puts forward a feminist critique of the prison, and argues that prisoner bodies are central to our understanding of modern punishment, and particularly of women’s survival and resistance during and after prison. Drawing on a feminist phenomenological framework informed by a serious engagement with scholars such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Erwin Goffman, Michel Foucault, Sandra Lee Bartky, and Tori Moi, Embodying Punishment revisits and expands the literature on the pains of imprisonment, and offers an interdisciplinary examination of the embodiment and identities of prisoners and former prisoners to press the need for a body-aware approach to criminology and penology. The book develops this argument through a qualitative study with prisoners and former prisoners by discussing themes such as: the perception of the prison through time, space, smells, and sounds; the change of prisoner bodies; the presentation of self in and after prison, including the centrality of appearance and prison dress in the management of prisoner and ex-prisoner identities; and a range of coping strategies adopted during and after imprisonment, including prison food, drug misuse, and a case study on women’s self-injuring practices. Embodying Punishment brings to the fore and critically analyses longstanding and urgent problems surrounding women’s multifaceted oppression through imprisonment, including matters of discriminatory and gendered treatment as well as issues around penal harm, and argues for an experientially grounded critique of punishment.
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Gore, Dayo F. Gender, Civil Rights, and the US Global Cold War. Edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222628.013.14.
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“Cold War” traditionally refers to the foreign policy, military, and ideological contestation between the power blocks of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Western powers of Europe and the United States. This chapter examines the ways women’s experiences and debates over gender, race, and sexuality were central to the US Cold War anticommunist policies and practices on the homefront and globally. This perspective reveals the ways the global Cold War reshaped decolonizing struggles in the Global South as well as domestic culture, social relations, and ideals of the family through domestic containment. The chapter charts the roots of civil rights politics and social movements of the 1960s in sustained resistance to Cold War anticommunism and its politics of conformity. Centering women’s experiences negotiating Cold War strategies of domestic containment, the chapter reveals the US Cold War as a multifaceted period of contestation as much as conformity.
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(Editor), Tess Cosslett, Alison Easton (Editor), and Penny Summerfield (Editor), eds. Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women's Studies. Open University Press, 1996.
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(Editor), Tess Cosslett, Alison Easton (Editor), and Penny Summerfield (Editor), eds. Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women's Studies. Open University Press, 1996.
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Tess, Cosslett, Easton Alison 1943-, and Summerfield Penny, eds. Women, power, and resistance: An introduction to women's studies. Buckingham [England]: Open University Press, 1996.
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