Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms
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Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms

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Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms

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Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms examines the processes by which activist successes are limited and outlines a theoretical framing of the liminal and temporal limits to social justice efforts as "contained empowerment." With a focused lens on the third wave and contemporary forms of feminism, the author investigates feminist activity from the early 1990s through responses and reactions to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 and contrasts these efforts with anti-feminist, white supremacist, and other structural normalizing efforts designed to limit and repress women's, gendered, and reproductive rights. This book includes analyses of celebrity activism, girl power, transnational feminist NGOs, digital feminisms, and the feminist mimicry applied by practitioners of neo-liberal and anti-feminism. Victoria A. Newsom concludes that the contained nature of feminist empowerment illustrates how activists must engage directly with intersectional challenges and address the multiplicities of structural oppressions in order to breach containment.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2022
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978799653
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Theorizing Contained Empowerment
  7. Contained Empowerment
  8. The Contained Embodiment of Feminist Activism
  9. The Liminality of Feminist Waves
  10. The Contained Nature of US Third Wave Feminisms
  11. Metaphors of Containment
  12. Digital Activism as an Echo Chamber
  13. In/Visible Activism
  14. Contemporary Activisms, Polarizations, and Problematic Containments
  15. The Containment of Digital Celebrity and Fan Activisms
  16. Backlash and Mimicry as Carnivalesque Liminality
  17. Activism to Breach Containment
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author

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