Plural Feminisms: Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis
Sohini Chatterjee · Po-Han Lee
Sep 2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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272
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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.
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.
About the author
Sohini Chatterjee is PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her work has recently been published in Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, South Asian Popular Culture, and Fat Studies. Sohini was previously a Non-Fiction Project Editor at HYSTERIA: Feminisms Radicalism Periodical and Activist Platform and is currently an academic podcaster at New Books Network.
Po-Han Lee is Assistant Professor in the Global Health Program and the Institute of Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. Po-Han has been a member of Feminist Review Collective and a senior editor for Plain Law Movement, the first multimedia platform for legal and human rights education in Taiwan. He recently published the book, Towards Gender Equality in Law (2020), which he co-edited with Gizem Guney and David Davies.
Po-Han Lee is Assistant Professor in the Global Health Program and the Institute of Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. Po-Han has been a member of Feminist Review Collective and a senior editor for Plain Law Movement, the first multimedia platform for legal and human rights education in Taiwan. He recently published the book, Towards Gender Equality in Law (2020), which he co-edited with Gizem Guney and David Davies.
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