Plural Feminisms
Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis
Published on 24. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-350-33269-0 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing 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 neurodivergent scholars in the academy reflect on their engagement with feminisms as well as their unique resistance methods-embracing and exploring complexities and challenges that both entail. It foregrounds the critical importance of first-person narratives in developing an expansive understanding of what it means to be a feminist, the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and the socio-cultural value of subversion.
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 neurodivergent scholars in the academy reflect on their engagement with feminisms as well as their unique resistance methods-embracing and exploring complexities and challenges that both entail. It foregrounds the critical importance of first-person narratives in developing an expansive understanding of what it means to be a feminist, the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and the socio-cultural value of subversion.
Reviews / Votes
Plural 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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-33269-0 (9781350332690)
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Persons
Sohini Chatterjee is PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her work has recently been published in Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, South Asian Popular Culture, and Fat Studies. Sohini was previously a Non-Fiction Project Editor at HYSTERIA: Feminisms Radicalism Periodical and Activist Platform and is currently an academic podcaster at New Books Network.
Po-Han Lee is Assistant Professor in the Global Health Program and the Institute of Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. Po-Han has been a member of Feminist Review Collective and a senior editor for Plain Law Movement, the first multimedia platform for legal and human rights education in Taiwan. He recently published the book, Towards Gender Equality in Law (2020), which he co-edited with Gizem Guney and David Davies.
Po-Han Lee is Assistant Professor in the Global Health Program and the Institute of Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. Po-Han has been a member of Feminist Review Collective and a senior editor for Plain Law Movement, the first multimedia platform for legal and human rights education in Taiwan. He recently published the book, Towards Gender Equality in Law (2020), which he co-edited with Gizem Guney and David Davies.
Content
About 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
Renee E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard, (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
Guelden OEzcan, 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)
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
Renee E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bedard, (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
Guelden OEzcan, 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)