Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought (Research Handbooks in Political Thought series)

Illustrating the collective power and relevance of feminist theory today, Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh have carefully selected a diverse international range of leading scholars and activists to critically assess key social and political challenges in the twenty-first century. This Research Handbook demonstrates a variety of feminist analyses that offer compelling insights into an array of topics, including police brutality, the carceral state, racial and sexualised violence, trans rights, climate change, and the denial of reproductive rights. With a focus on the crucial role of feminism in envisioning a more equal world, chapters examine critical and care based approaches to feminist political thought; hostility to the feminist movement; and feminist attempts to unseat institutionalised power and violence. The lived experiences of women, variously situated in a host of cultural and geographic contexts, are explored. These experiences include the thematics of longing and bereavement, as well as different forms of feminist protest and political awakening. Ultimately, this Research Handbook illustrates the continuing need for reinterpretation and reconstruction in this vital field of feminist political thought. The Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought will prove an essential read for students and scholars of feminist, political and postcolonial theory. Its real-world implications will mean it will additionally appeal to policymakers and activists, as well as academics of philosophy, political science, sociology, and gender and cultural studies. Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction to the Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought: persisters still Part I A critical and care-based approach 1. The politics and practices of care: pandemic possibilities 2. Re-enchanting the world: la bruja and class struggle in Chicana/Latina cultural production 3. Sex, science, and the politics of uncertainty 4. To run like a girl: state transmisogyny and the legal construction of gender in Hecox v. Little (2020) Part II Feminist and anti-feminist women in politics 5. The conquering conservative: how white feminism has fueled conservative women’s rhetoric 6. Doubly underestimated: antifeminism and the engagement of far-right women – considerations of supposed contradictions 7. Intended consequences: the fall of Roe v. Wade 8. Sexism, misogyny, and gender violence: feminist political thought in the colonial, heteropatriarchal, carceral state of Australia Part III Confronting, de-escalating, and unmasking violence 9. Carceral feminism and the punitive state in Kerala State, India 10. Lived accounts of #MeToo and slanting towards Beauvoir 11. Deterritorializing intersectionality 12. Adriana Cavarero’s “Inclinations” and the problem of dispossession Part IV Longing, bereavement, desire 13. Black maternal grief and grievance against the liberal state: visionary pragmatism and politics otherwise 14. The material maternal: feminist representations of motherhood by contemporary artist–mothers 15. Black women and human emancipation: Sylvia Wynter, Angela Davis, and the New Consciousness 16. K-Pop and Koreaboo: a feminist analysis of the racial and sexual politics of the transnational media fandom Part V On the ground activism, audibility, and amplifying agency 17. Feminists strike against neoliberalism: social reproduction, financial extractivism, and debt 18. A dialogue between two grassroots Chinese feminists 19. Inaudible voices: transnational feminism, music, and listening in our time of crisis 20. Rethinking feminist political subjectivity with deconstruction and negative dialectics Part VI Weaving, seam-ripping, and re-stitching 21. Woman, life, freedom: Iran’s feminist uprising in historical and transnational perspective 22. Connecting the many threads of Arab feminist political thought 23. Omoluabi feminism: political leadership through an African lens 24. Feminisms in a time of permanent war: still we persist, organize, endure, resist Index