ABSTRACT

The aim of this chapter is to draw together the key arguments presented in previous chapters so as to develop a strategic position from which to progress a new radical and plural organic protest in gender. A key objective will be to show that, by taking protest femininities as the nascent general equivalent grounded in a re-vitalised and complex understanding of hegemony, the aspiration for social justice in gender is imbued with new possibilities. However, the first task in this conceptual project is to elaborate the specific principles that a radical and plural organic protest must incorporate and then to develop a sense of operationality by working through certain inherent paradoxes.