Plural Feminisms: Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis
Resource
Assembling and Performing the (Un)Knowns: International Human Rights Evidentiary Regimes and the Construction of ‘Facts’ (1)
ISBN
9781350332713
9781350332706
9781350332720
Date Issued
2023-10
Author(s)
Sohini Chatterjee
Abstract
Drawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. How individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities.
Plural Feminisms spurs a discussion on how structural violence is identified and resisted, and the invisible and emotional labour that goes on behind this resistance. The book documents the resistance strategies feminists employ on a daily basis to survive, and to form and sustain dissident kinships, that remain unread, unheard, overlooked, and excluded from dominant discourses of being and becoming. Through autoethnography, feminist, queer and/or trans and genderqueer, indigenous, Black and racialised, disabled and neurodivergent scholars in the academy reflect on their engagement with feminisms as well as their unique resistance methods-embracing and exploring complexities and challenges that both entail. It foregrounds the critical importance of first-person narratives in developing an expansive understanding of what it means to be a feminist, the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and the socio-cultural value of subversion.
Subjects
feminism; gender issue; gender relations; human geography; institutional framework; trend analysis; university sector; china; hong kong; japan; korea; taiwan
autoethnography
queer theory
disability study
indigenous studies
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Type
book