Full Description
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th-century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism.
It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and citizenship status. The chapters in this collection modify the "wave" metaphor in some cases and in others re-periodize it. By studying individual movements, they collectively address several themes that advance our understandings of the history of feminism, such as the rejection of "hegemonic" feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration. By analyzing practical activism, the chapters in this volume produce new ways of theorizing feminism and new historical perspectives about the activist locations from which feminist politics emerged.
Including histories of feminisms in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, Poland and Chile, Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism provides a truly global re-appraisal of women's movements in the late 20th century.
Contents
Introduction Barbara Molony (Santa Clara University, USA) and Jennifer Nelson (University of Redlands, USA)
I. Redefining Feminism
1. Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation: The Food Activism of United Bronx Parents (Lana Povitz, New York University, USA)
2. 'Sex-Ins, College Style': Black Feminism and Sexual Politics in the Student YWCA, 1968-1980 (April Haynes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
3. Contemporary Feminisms and Controversies about the Principle of Secularity in France: A Model of Emancipation (Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz, Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
4. SEWA's Feminism (Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
5. Feminist Dissidents in the 'Motherland of Women's Liberation: Shattering Soviet Myths and Memory (Rochelle Ruthchild, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA)
II. Reconsidering "Second Wave" Feminist Genealogies
6. On the 'F' Word as Insult and on Feminism as Political Practice: Women's Mobilization for Rights in Chile (Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, University of Arizona, USA)
7. Beyond the 'Development' Paradigm: State Socialist Women's Activism, Transnationalism and the 'Long Sixties' (Magdalena Grabowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
8. 'Making a Point by Choice': Maternal Imperialism, Second Wave Feminism, and Transnational Epistemologies (Priya Jha, University of Redlands, USA)
9. Shared History and the Responsibility for Justice: The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (Seung-kyung Kim, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA and Na Young Lee, Chung-Ang University, South Korea)
III. Transnational Feminist Linkages
10. Mapping the Edges of Environmental Suburbia: Gender, Action, and the City in Late-Century California (Jeannette Alden Estruth, New York University, USA)
11. The Politics and Possibilities of 'Difference' in Dalit Feminist Activism (Purvi Mehta, Colorado College, USA)
12. One Thousand Wednesdays: Transnational Activism from Seoul to Glendale (Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong, Australia)
13. Contesting the Nation(s): Haitian and Mohawk Women's Activism in Montreal (Amanda Ricci, McGill University, Canada)
14. If Not Feminism, Then What? Women's Work in the African National Congress in Exile (Rachel Sandwell, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Index
