Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest
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Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest

About this book

Co-winner of the 2021 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Contributions by Susan Eleuterio, Andrea Glass, Rachelle Hope Saltzman, Jack Santino, Patricia E. Sawin, and Adam Zolkover The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humor, puns, memes, and graphic language. During the campaign, a video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump's lewd use of the word "pussy"; in response, many women have made the issue and the term central to the public debate about women's bodies and their political, social, and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the protests that started with the 2017 Women's March, Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest deals with the very public nature of that surprising, grassroots spectacle and explores the relationship between the personal and the political in the protests. Contributors to this edited collection use a folkloristic lens to engage with the signs, memes, handmade pussy hats, and other items of material culture that proliferated during the march and in subsequent public protests. Contributors explore how this march and others throughout history have employed the social critique functions and features of carnival to stage public protests; how different generations interacted and acted in the march; how perspectives on inclusion and citizenship influenced and motivated participation; how women-owned businesses and their dedicated patrons interacted with the election, the march, and subsequent protests; how popular belief affects actions and reactions, regardless of some objective notion of truth; and how traditionally female crafts and gifting behavior strengthened and united those involved in the march.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. PUSSY HATS, POLITICS, AND PUBLIC PROTEST
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. PUSSIES GALORE! WOMEN, POWER, AND PROTEST AT THE 2017 MARCH
  10. THESE PUSSIES GRAB BACK: PROTESTING AT THE PORTLAND WOMEN’S MARCH
  11. PUSSY HATS: COMMON GROUND AT THE CHICAGO WOMEN’S MARCH
  12. POSTCARDS, PUSSY HATS, AND PROTEST PINS: DOCUMENTING THE FOLKLORE OF FEMINIST RESISTANCE AT MIO STUDIO IN LANCASTER
  13. PAID AND PROFESSIONAL PROTESTERS? GIVING VOICE TO TRUMP RESISTERS
  14. I CAN’T BELIEVE I STILL HAVE TO PROTEST THIS SHIT: GENERATIONAL VARIATION AND SOLIDARITY AMONG WOMEN’S MARCH PARTICIPANTS
  15. CONTRIBUTORS