Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizing in Contemporary Social Movements

Cristina Flesher Fominaya (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies and a founding editor of Interface Journal. Her latest books include Democracy Reloaded (2020) and Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020).Damon Eguiarte Flesher is Managing Editor at Social Movement Studies and has also collaborated as Managing Editor on the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Flesher Fominaya and Feenstra, 2020). Damon also works as a Spanish-English translator.

• Introduction 1. Affective dimensions and the psychosocial work performed by naked body protests 2. Ambivalent effects of anger in Chinese feminists’ refusal to patriarchal marriage and family 3. Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism 4. The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India 5. Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys 6. Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy 7. Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left 8. Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan 9. Organizing under pressure: authoritarianism, respectability politics, and LGBT advocacy in Rwanda 10. “I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast 11. Framing and shaming: LGBT activism, feminism and the construction of ‘gestational surrogacy’ in Italy