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Book SynopsisDrawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. How individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities.
Plural Feminisms spurs a discussion on how structural violence is identified and resisted, and the invisible and emotional labour that goes on behind this resistance. The book documents the resistance strategies feminists employ on a daily basis to survive, and to form and sustain dissident kinships, that remain unread, unheard, overlooked, and excluded from dominant discourses of being and becoming. Through autoethnography, feminist, queer and/or trans and genderqueer, indigenous, Black and racialised, disabled and neuro
Trade ReviewPlural Feminisms is a deeply feminist text offering contemporary insights from those who resist the neo-liberal orthodoxy of the academy. The authors reflect upon what it means to be a feminist, uncover the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and show the socio-cultural and political value of subversion. * Elizabeth Ettorre, University of Liverpool, UK *
Architecture. Fatphobia. Spiritual activism. The sanism of academia. Scholarly performativity. Again and again, these lively essays show how mundane feminist insurgence must be distributed, poly, not so sure of itself. Centering the synergies and unexpected affinities between theory and practice, we feel alongside the writers, the rage, delight and rustle of how feminism might be otherwise. A touchstone, especially for those worn down by market-mediated feminisms. * Yasmin Gunaratnam, King’s College, London, UK *
Table of ContentsAbout the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Editorial Introduction Sohini Chatterjee (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Po-Han Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) PART ONE WITNESSING AND INHABITING INTERSECTIONALITY 1.Multitemporality and Feminist Resistance in Transition Corin Parsons (University of British Columbia, Canada) 2.Walking the “Feminist Tightrope”: Navigating Feminist Identities within Anti-Violence Work with Men Madison Brockbank (McMaster University, Canada) 3.Queerly Mad: Cripping Grief and Post-Traumatic Fibromyalgia Syndrome Kody Muncaster, (Western University, Canada) 4.Why all the Black Women Sit Together on the U-Bahn? Black Femme Resistance in Germany Madeline Bass, Cienna Davis, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Laetitia Walendom 5.Feminist Practices in Architecture: How Women Develop Resistance Through Criticism and Action Maria Silvia D’Avolio, (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) PART TWO EMBODIED ANTI-NORMATIVITY AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE 6.Against ‘the Devil from Within’: Doing Feminism through Re-Membering the Multiple Selves Po-Han Lee 7.Neoliberal Precarity and Neuroqueer Possibility: Exploring Care, Kinship, and Relational Becoming as Resistance Sohini Chatterjee 8.Aazhawigamig (the Space Between Two lodges): An indigenous Matricentric Feminist Perspective on Mothering and Resistance as Everyday Praxis Renée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard, (Western University, Canada) 9.Settler Theory and Feminisms Beyond Compulsory Relating: A Polyqueer Autoethnography Rowan J. Quirk 10.A Reflexive Consideration of the Apocalyptic Child E. Scherzinger, (McMaster University, Canada) 11.Exploring Emotional Vulnerability in Autoethnography: Unpacking and Rethinking Everyday Trauma Yi-Hui Lin, Independent Researcher PART THREE CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AS FEMINIST INTERVENTION 12.Feminist Praxis in Exile: A Collaborative Autoethnography Gülden Özcan, Simten Cosar, (Carleton University, Canada) 13.Confronting Contradictions, Chasing a Feeling: “Witchy,” Feminist Pandemic Teaching as Spiritual Activism Kascindra Shewan, McGill University, Canada) 14.Taking up Sites of Resistance in the Neoliberal University: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and Belonging Elizabeth Chelsea Mohler, (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 15.Anti-Carceral Feminism: Abolitionist Conversations on Gender-Based Violence Maria Silvia D’Avolio, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, (University of Brighton, UK), Deanna Dadusc, (University of Brighton, UK)
