Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

Leila Easa; Jennifer Stager

doi:10.5771/9781793648112

Summary

Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. While their concept of public feminism emerges from a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager locate its foundations in history, journeying through broad swatches of time looking for connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture. Each chapter focuses on what public feminists do in the world: Public feminists gain control over an archive that otherwise contains or excludes them; they recover their own stories and subjective experiences, sometimes for activist use; they examine images and language that construct women in patriarchal texts; they situate the individual within a collective and the collective within an individual; they confront the limitations of such situating due to the containment of patriarchy and reclaim new systems of power in response; and they resurface a deep history for the alternative strategies of memorializing they employ. In navigating these practices, the authors also attend to the material conditions of writing histories as well as those shaping and enabling public feminist acts and protests more broadly.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4810-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4811-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 282
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Writing History Collaboratively No access
2. Defining Terms No access
3. Social Media as Public Feminist Tool No access
4. How This Work Unfolds: Feminist Structures, Citation Practices, and Sharing No access
5. The Chapters No access
6. Notes No access
1. Willendorf, the “First Venus” No access
2. The Cultural Construction of “Venus” No access
3. Fashioning an Archive: Memoir as Exemplar No access
4. Violence and Trauma No access
5. Reshaping the Archive No access
6. Speech, Silence, and Controlling the Narrative No access
7. Venus’s Aftermath No access
8. Notes No access
1. Between Public and Private No access
2. Gender and Representation No access
3. Judith Beheading Holofernes No access
4. Conceptualizing Rape No access
5. The Problem of Biography No access
6. Confronting the Paradox of Autobiography No access
7. Mapping Disclosure No access
8. #MeToo as Overlay Map No access
9. Notes No access
1. Feminist Translation Theory and the Myth of Purity No access
2. Material Circumstances No access
3. Subject Position No access
4. Poetics and Language No access
5. Resurfacing Women No access
6. Shaping an Audience No access
7. Commenting On/Reflecting the Now No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Collective “I” in the Academy No access
2. The Collective in Translation No access
3. Sappho’s Lyric I No access
4. In Translation: Words, Spaces, and Brackets No access
5. Retranslation into Movement No access
6. Notes No access
1. New Materialism and the Body No access
2. The Milky Way: Breastfeeding, Class, and Contagion No access
3. Going Viral No access
4. Distributed Leadership and the Collective No access
5. Notes No access
1. Figural Monuments No access
2. Counter Monuments No access
3. List Monuments No access
4. Ink and Paper Lists No access
5. Mirrored Lists No access
6. Blank Spaces and Poetry No access
7. Naming Overwhelm No access
8. Naming the Unnamed No access
9. Return to Embodiment No access
10. Iteration No access
11. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 258
Index No access Pages 259 - 280
About the Authors No access Pages 281 - 282