{"title":"In Her Name: (Re)Imagining Feminist Solidarities in the Aftermath of the Iran Protests","authors":"N. Shahrokni","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The death of twenty-two-year-old Jîna \"Mahsa\" Amini, while in the custody of Iran's morality police in the autumn of 2022, sparked nationwide protests throughout Iran. Iranian women came out to the streets in large numbers, performing a revolutionary femininity that defied mandatory veiling and disrupted the state-prescribed order.This article situates these protests in the broader history of women's struggles in post-revolutionary Iran and sheds a critical light on what has come to be called a \"feminist revolution.\" It critically assesses the impact of the protests in creating a space for sisterhood, crossing class and ethnic boundaries in Iran and providing the impetus for envisioning feminist solidarities across national borders.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46051276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Berg, E. Chowdhury, Isis Nusair, Michelle V. Rowley, Ednie Kaeh Garrison, Christina Holmes, Jennifer Musial, Candice Lyons, Sarah Potter, Lucinda Ramberg, Claire Raymond, Judy Rohrer, C. Rottenberg, Ayu Saraswati, Emily Skidmore, Alexandra Verini, C. Zhang
{"title":"Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors","authors":"H. Berg, E. Chowdhury, Isis Nusair, Michelle V. Rowley, Ednie Kaeh Garrison, Christina Holmes, Jennifer Musial, Candice Lyons, Sarah Potter, Lucinda Ramberg, Claire Raymond, Judy Rohrer, C. Rottenberg, Ayu Saraswati, Emily Skidmore, Alexandra Verini, C. Zhang","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44887829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masochistic Feminism, or Reflections on the White Feminist Industrial Complex","authors":"J. Nash","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This review essay examines three popular feminist texts that diagnose the problem of \"white feminism.\" I ask: how is it that a group of actors—white women—who are not visibly working under the mantle of feminism come to be claimed by feminists, by these authors, as evidence of feminism's own bad politics? While seeking to understand a narrative built around a capacious conception of feminism that then bemoans feminism itself, I also mark the masochistic impulse of contemporary feminist politics that I argue these books—and the markets around them—produce and represent. Each of these books are constructed around mapping a dangerous and toxic white feminine subjectivity that can be overcome only through white women's wholesale allegiance to Black feminist thought, and through their repeated willingness to abject themselves through accounts of their own enactments- knowing or unknowing- of violence. Taken together, these books (along with a slew of popular writing condemning white feminist behavior) reveal an industry in anti-white feminist writing that insists that white women accept the inevitability of their own harmfulness over and over again, repeatedly confronting the truth of their \"narcissism.\"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46692482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fifty Years of Art in Feminist Studies: A Retrospective","authors":"Bibiana Obler","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay reflects on the role of art in <i>Feminist Studies</i> over the last 50 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49157214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Abu-Lughod, R. Hammami, N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Laura Charney
{"title":"Feminism and Geopolitics: A Collaborative Project on the Cunning of Gender Violence","authors":"L. Abu-Lughod, R. Hammami, N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Laura Charney","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We share perspectives from involvement in an international collaborative project culminating in a book titled The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism, (Duke University Press, 2023). Raising questions about the recent feminist \"success\" in putting gender-based violence and violence against women on the global agenda, as ethnographers, socio-legal scholars, journalists, and activists who focus on the everyday lives of people and the politics of gender, religion, and colonial or imperial violence, especially in the Middle East and South Asia and among immigrants from these regions, we trouble the selective ways these feminist visions and practices have been integrated into state and foreign policies, global security regimes, as well as international development and humanitarian industries. We stage three strategies to rethink the relation between the myriad forms and experiences of gender violence and their problematic codification into a global feminist agenda: first by distinguishing between gender violence (small g) and what we call GBVAW (as apparatus and technology); second by invoking the Hegelian concept of \"cunning\" to capture the ways feminist commitments to addressing violence became folded into world affairs; and third by tracing major circuits of power in which GBVAW operates to suggest why feminists might want to seek alternatives.","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43424922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roe and Our Dystopic Imagination","authors":"Heather Latimer","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"As I write this it has been three weeks since Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the original purpose of this forum — to revisit Roe retrospectively and contemporarily on its fiftieth anniversary — has taken on a new tone and meaning. When I proposed this short essay, I wanted to explore why dystopian narratives have become so popular for representing abortion politics over the last five decades. But the answer to that question seems obvious — what is about to happen in many states is dystopic. Indeed, Roe’s fall supports the idea that the genre is a form of realism, as Fredric Jameson has suggested.18 However, it is precisely because of the bleakness of this moment that I want to focus on the relationship between dystopian narratives and abortion politics. While antiabortionists and the Supreme Court may wish to frame Roe’s fall as a constitutional matter, this is a culture war, and how we talk about abortion in this moment will help set the terms of the debate going forward. So while I may no longer need to question dystopia’s appeal, I do have a related set of questions about its allegorical use in a post-Roe world. As headlines declare that we now live in The Handmaid’s Tale, it is clear that the genre has become a touchstone for representing abortion, but what are the effects of turning to dystopian tropes, themes, and storylines to make sense of anti-abortion laws and policies? What might this genre help us understand in this new moment of criminalization of pregnancies not resulting in births? First, I think the genre is a form of hyperrealism that clearly and purposefully engages with the real-life criminalization of abortion, which has been the reality for years and across many states, well before the Dobbs decision. Several authors of recent dystopian novels, for instance, have represented reproductive scenarios that are no more or less misogynistic and repressive than recent changes to the law. For example, Louise Erdrich’s recent novel, Future Home of the Living God, depicts a near-future United States where climate change has led to a fertility crisis. In response, the evangelical government bans abortion, invokes the Patriot","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46725757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journeys with Yal Devi: War, Peace, and Contemporary Art in Sri Lanka","authors":"Sonal Khullar","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47885217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The truth about karen (1972)","authors":"Kenneth D. Carroll","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44498894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Do Women Have to Do With It?: The Multi-Dimensional Nature of the Sri Lankan Crisis","authors":"A. Satkunanathan","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45073851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intimate Critique: Toward a Feminism from Within","authors":"Khanum Shaikh","doi":"10.1353/fem.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35884,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41899865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}