Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges

ISBN-13: 9781032084404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Elizabeth Evans; El?onore L?pinard

Opis

Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege.

Spis treści

Confronting Privileges in Feminist and Queer Movements;  Section One: Thinking through Differences in Feminist and Queer Movements;  1. Borders, Boundaries and Brokers: The unintended consequences of strategic essentialism in transnational feminist networks;  2. Location Matters: The 2017 Women’s Marches as Intersectional Imaginary;  3. Changing Core Business? Institutionalised Feminisms and Intersectionality in Belgium and Germany;  4. Intersectional Complexities in Gender-Based Violence Politics;  5. Organising as Intersectional Feminists in the Global South: Birth and Mode of Action of a Post-2011 Feminist Groups in Morocco;  6. Intersectionality or Unity? Attempts to Address Privilege in the Contemporary Self-Help Movement;  Section Two: Intersectionality and Social Movement Organising; 7. Disability and Intersectionality: Patterns of Ableism in the Women’s Movement;  8. Difficult Intersections: Nation(alism) and the LGBTIQ Movement in Cyprus;  9. Feminist Whiteness: Resisting Intersectionality in France;  10. Intersectional Praxis from Within and Without: Challenging Whiteness in Quebec’s LGBTQ Movement;  11. Paradoxes of Intersectional Practice: Race and Class in the Chicago Anti-Violence Movement;  12. Intersectional Politics on Domestic Workers’ Rights: The Cases of Ecuador and Colombia;  13. Queer Muslims, Autonomous Organising and the UK LGBT+ Movement;  14. Generational Conflict and the Politics of Inclusion in Two Feminist Events;  Privileges Confronted?.

O autorze

Elizabeth Evans is Reader in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. She researches feminist activism, intersectionality and political representation and is the author of two books, the most recent compares third-wave feminisms in Britain and the US.

Éléonore Lépinard is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on feminist movements and theory, gender and law, intersectionality and gender and political representation.