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Book SynopsisHow and why do ""ordinary"" women engage in various forms of social-change work at different times in their lives? What does it mean for these women to age as activists?
Unsettling Activisms brings together insights from academics and activists in an intergenerational conversation that addresses these questions.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Amplifying Activisms—May Chazan
- PART I: PLURALIZING
- Poem I: Grandmother—waaseyaa’sin christine sy
- Introduction to Part I: Pluralizing—Carole Roy
- Chapter 1: Activisms across Women’s Lives: Rethinking the Politics of (Grand)Mothering—May Chazan, Jesse Whattam, and Melissa Baldwin
- Reflection 1: “Climbing into My Granny Pants”: Reflections from a Grandmother Activist—Peggy Edwards
- Chapter 2: Activist Aging: The Tactical Theatrics of RECAA—Kim Sawchuk and Constance Lafontaine
- Reflection 2: Change and Continuity: Activisms across Time and Place—Sadeqa Siddiqui
- PART II: PERSISTING
- Poem II: Firekeeper—Keara Lightning
- Introduction to Part II: Persisting—waaseyaa’sin christine sy
- Chapter 3: “That’s my Bridge”: Water Protector, Knowledge Holder, Language Teacher—Elder Shirley Ida Williams Pheasant
- Reflection 3: “And Then We Let Them Go, and We Have Their Backs”— Monique Mojica
- Chapter 4: Settler Solidarities and the Limits of Granny Activism—May Chazan
- Reflection 4: Learning to Listen: Half a Century of Walking with First Peoples—Jean Koning
- PART III: EMBODYING
- Poem III: This Mouth—Niambi Leigh
- Introduction to Part III: Embodying—Sally Chivers
- Chapter 5: Strengthening Our Activisms by Creating Intersectional Space for the Personal, Professional, Disability, and Aging—Nadine Changfoot, Mary Anne Ansley, and Andrea Dodsworth
- Reflection 5: Words, Work, and Wonder: Poeting toward Mid-life—Ziy von B
- Chapter 6: The Raging Grannies versus the Sexperts: Performing Humour to Resist Compulsory (Hetero)Sexuality—Marlene Goldman, May Chazan, and Melissa Baldwin
- Reflection 6: (In)Visible: Photographing Older Women—Ruth Steinberg and Maureen Murphy
- PART IV: REMEMBERING
- Poem IV: Lip Point for Bearded Women—waaseyaa’sin christine sy
- Introduction to Part IV: Remembering—Laura Madokoro
- Chapter 7: Activist Archiving and the Feminist Movement in Mexico: Collecting Art and Ephemera as Political Practice—Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
- Reflection 7: Activist Aging on and off the Airwaves: Reflections on the Community Radio Show Aging Radically—Melissa Baldwin and Maddy Macnab
- Chapter 8: Intergenerational Interventions: Archiving the Grandmothers Advocacy Network—Pat Evans, Sharon Swanson, May Chazan, and Melissa Baldwin
- Reflection 8: Following Nan to the Kiji Sibi—Jenn Cole
- Closing: Activist Theirstories and the Future of Aging Activisms—May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Pat Evans
- Contributor Biographies
