Plural Feminisms

Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis

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Plural Feminisms

Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis

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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.

Table of Contents

About the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editorial Introduction
Sohini Chatterjee (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Po-Han Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)


PART ONE WITNESSING AND INHABITING INTERSECTIONALITY


1.Multitemporality and Feminist Resistance in Transition
Corin Parsons (University of British Columbia, Canada)

2.Walking the “Feminist Tightrope”: Navigating Feminist Identities within Anti-Violence Work with Men
Madison Brockbank (McMaster University, Canada)

3.Queerly Mad: Cripping Grief and Post-Traumatic Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Kody Muncaster, (Western University, Canada)

4.Why all the Black Women Sit Together on the U-Bahn? Black Femme Resistance in Germany
Madeline Bass, Cienna Davis, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Laetitia Walendom

5.Feminist Practices in Architecture: How Women Develop Resistance Through Criticism and Action
Maria Silvia D'Avolio, (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)


PART TWO EMBODIED ANTI-NORMATIVITY AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE


6.Against 'the Devil from Within': Doing Feminism through Re-Membering the Multiple Selves
Po-Han Lee

7.Neoliberal Precarity and Neuroqueer Possibility: Exploring Care, Kinship, and Relational Becoming as Resistance
Sohini Chatterjee

8.Aazhawigamig (the Space Between Two lodges): An indigenous Matricentric Feminist Perspective on Mothering and Resistance as Everyday Praxis
Renée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard, (Western University, Canada)

9.Settler Theory and Feminisms Beyond Compulsory Relating: A Polyqueer Autoethnography
Rowan J. Quirk

10.A Reflexive Consideration of the Apocalyptic Child
E. Scherzinger, (McMaster University, Canada)

11.Exploring Emotional Vulnerability in Autoethnography: Unpacking and Rethinking Everyday Trauma
Yi-Hui Lin, Independent Researcher


PART THREE CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AS FEMINIST INTERVENTION


12.Feminist Praxis in Exile: A Collaborative Autoethnography
Gülden Özcan, Simten Cosar, (Carleton University, Canada)

13.Confronting Contradictions, Chasing a Feeling: “Witchy,” Feminist Pandemic Teaching as Spiritual Activism
Kascindra Shewan, McGill University, Canada)

14.Taking up Sites of Resistance in the Neoliberal University: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Belonging
Elizabeth Chelsea Mohler, (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

15.Anti-Carceral Feminism: Abolitionist Conversations on Gender-Based Violence
Maria Silvia D'Avolio, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, (University of Brighton, UK), Deanna Dadusc, (University of Brighton, UK)

Product details

Published 05 Oct 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781350332737
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sohini Chatterjee

Sohini Chatterjee is a PhD Student in the Departme…

Anthology Editor

Po-Han Lee

Po-Han Lee is Assistant Professor at the Global He…

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