ISBN:
9780774866507
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 324 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Porträts (schwarz-weiß)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420971
Keywords:
Geschichte 1950-1995
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Affekt
;
Feminismus
;
Gefühl
;
Kanada
;
Second-wave feminism / Canada
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Feminism / Canada / History / 20th century
;
Affect (Psychology) / Social aspects / Canada
;
Emotions / Social aspects / Canada
;
Féminisme de la deuxième vague / Canada
;
Féminisme / Canada / Histoire / 20e siècle
;
Emotions / Social aspects
;
Feminism
;
Second-wave feminism
;
Canada
;
1900-1999
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kanada
;
Feminismus
;
Affekt
;
Gefühl
;
Geschichte 1950-1995
Abstract:
"Feeling Feminism examines the ways in which emotions such as anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness influenced second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force in the actions underlying feminist history. They are at play in the experiences of injustice, exclusion, caring, and suffering that have fed womens commitment to building and sustaining a new world. The movement was at its height from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, but this groundbreaking study embraces the perspective of a long second wave, reaching back to the 1950s and forward into the early 1990s. Drawing explicitly on the history of emotions and affect theory to convey the passion, the sense of possibility, and the energizing collective political commitment that has characterized feminism, contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself. Insights from gender and womens studies, cultural and literary theory, social psychology, and sociology infuse Feeling Feminism, as the contributors explore how emotions shaped and nourished feminist activism. More generally, they demonstrate the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world."--
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