ABSTRACT
Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations and revisions in recent years, yet contemporary global developments and political upheavals have again refocused feminism’s collective force. What is feminism now? How do scholars and activists employ contemporary feminism? What feminist traditions endure? Which are no longer relevant in addressing contemporary global conditions?
In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars reflect on how contemporary feminism has shaped their thinking and their field as they interrogate its uses, limits, and reinventions. Organized as a set of questions over definition, everyday life, critical intervention, and political activism, the Handbook takes on a broad set of issues and points of view to consider what feminism is today and what current forces shape its future development. It also includes an extended conversation among major feminist thinkers about the future of feminist scholarship and activism.
The scholars gathered here address a wide variety of topics and contexts: activism from post-Soviet collectives to the Arab spring, to the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment, feminist art, film and digital culture, education, technology, policy, sexual practices and gender identity. Indispensable for scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students in women, gender, and sexuality, the collection offers a multidimensional picture of the diversity and utility of feminist thought in an age of multiple uncertainties.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|89 pages
Ways of being
chapter 1|11 pages
Taking exceptions seriously
chapter 3|15 pages
“Does feminism have a generation gap?”
chapter 5|17 pages
Lost in translation
section Section II|79 pages
Ways of living
section Section III|51 pages
Ways in
section Section IV|90 pages
Ways of contesting
chapter 16|24 pages
Women organized against sexual harassment
chapter 17|15 pages
Online feminism
chapter 18|18 pages
Arab women’s feminism(s), resistance(s), and activism(s) within and beyond the “Arab Spring”
section Section V|16 pages
Coda conversation