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Handbook of Gender and Activism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvJo Reger,Rachel L. Einwohner,Kelsy Kretschmer

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This innovative Handbook examines how gender shapes social activism and is shaped by activism. With a unique interdisciplinary focus, it explores the effects of the gender binary on experiences of activism, considering how different movements negotiate and, at times, challenge these traditional conceptions. The Handbook then moves beyond the binary with ground-breaking work from a range of scholars.Expert authors discuss the impact and limitations of the gender binary, using examples such as the MeToo movement to demonstrate how viewing men and women as separate, monolithic categories results in countless differences being overlooked. Chapters present a range of global and intersectional case studies such as the gender hierarchies in Swedish activism, Black women’s involvement in abolition movements, and feminist campaigns in Saudi Arabia. The Handbook also moves beyond the binary, adopting a transfeminist approach in relation to the experiences of trans, intersex, and non-binary people, and crucially advocating for the conceptualization of a more expansive gender system and the ways in which gender aids activism and impedes it.This thought-provoking Handbook is a vital resource for students and scholars of gender politics, social movements, discrimination, and social inequality. It is also an enlightening read for academics interested in employing intersectional and transfeminist perspectives in their research.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-22
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Handbooks on Gender series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781803929576

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Contents1 Introduction: gender, activism, the binary, and beyond 1Rachel L. Einwohner, Kelsy Kretschmer and Jo RegerPART I ALONG THE BINARY2 Gender deployment and resistance in women’s movements andmodern feminism 28Katie Mueller and Jo Reger3 Intersectional diminishment and Black feminist invisibility insocial movement dynamics 52Melissa C. Brown4 How gender hierarchies shape activism: the relationship betweeneveryday action and extraordinary activism in cases from Sweden 74Anna-Britt Coe5 The Saudi feminist movement: obstacles, challenges andopportunities 96Zahia Smail Salhi6 Masculinity and social movements 121Emily K. CarianPART II BEYOND THE BINARY7 Theorizing gender and social movements beyond the binary 139Nancy Whittier8 Bodily autonomy and the limits of gender-based activism inorganizing beyond the binary 163Zachary D. Palmer and Elle Rochford9 Asexuality: lessons for gender activism 186Canton Winer10 Intersex social movements: from medical disorder to selfdetermination 209Angelika von Wahl11 Gender identity, national culture, language and activism: the caseof Iceland 231Þorgerꝺur J. Einarsdóttir, Jyl Josephson and Laufey AxelsdóttirPART III APPLICATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS12 Emotions, gender and politics in Mexican women’s collectives 263Tommaso Gravante and Alice Poma13 The gendered dimensions of movements for racial justice 284Aisha Upton and Jalia Joseph14 Could leaderless networked social movements transform women’smarginalization in social activism? A multi-dimensionalframework 302Susanne YP Choi15 Racial capitalism and Black women’s struggle for reproductivejustice 330Crystal Nicole Eddins16 Gender, crises, and mobilisations in Europe 354Silke Roth17 Contesting the gender binary in wartime: Ukrainian women’sresistance to Russia’s aggression 382Olena Nikolayenko

‘This timely Handbook illuminates gender activism through rich case studies spanning Iceland to Mexico. With its innovative perspective beyond the gender binary, it deftly challenges what gender really means for social movements. This vital collection offers scholars and students fresh insights into contemporary gendered movements and significantly advances our understanding of activism and social change.’