Routledge handbook of contemporary feminism / edited by Tasha Oren and Andrea Press.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oren, Tasha G., editor.

Press, Andrea Lee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Contemporary feminism: editors' introduction

SECTION I Ways of being

1 Taking exceptions seriously: essentialism, constructionism, and the proliferation of particularities

2 "Stories are data with soul": lessons from black feminist epistemology

3 "Does feminism have a generation gap?" Blogging, millennials and the hip hop generation

4 Too soon for post-feminism: the ongoing life of patriarchy in neoliberal America

5 Lost in translation: challenging (white, monolingual feminism's) &lt

choice&gt

with justicia reproductiva

6 The feminist frontier: on trans and feminism

SECTION II Ways of living

7 Everyday life studies and feminism

8 Making culture and doing feminism

9 Surveillance is a feminist issue

10 Hookup culture and higher education

11 Circling back: electronic literature and material feminism

SECTION III Ways in

12 Gender and schooling: progress, persistent inequalities, and possible solutions

13 Why we need feminist game studies

14 Acting out: performing feminisms in the contemporary art museum

15 Can't I just be a filmmaker? Women's and feminist film festivals' resurgence in a postfeminist world

SECTION IV Ways of contesting

16 Women organized against sexual harassment: protesting sexual violence on campus, then and now

17 Online feminism: global phenomenon, local perspective (on ASPEKT organization and online feminism in Czechoslovak context)

18 Arab women's feminism(s), resistance(s), and activism(s) within and beyond the "Arab Spring": potentials, limitations, and future prospects

19 Pussy Riot: a feminist band lost in history and translation

20 None of this is new (media): feminisms in the social media age.

SECTION V Coda conversation

A conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jack Halberstam, and Sherry Ortner

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315728346

1315728346

9781317542636

1317542630

9781317542643

1317542649

OCLC:

1101966930