Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought

Edited by Mary Caputi, Professor of Political Theory, Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach and Patricia Moynagh, Professor of Political Theory, Department of Government and Politics, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, US

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought:persisters still 1Mary Caputi and Patricia MoynaghPART I A CRITICAL AND CARE-BASED APPROACH1 The politics and practices of care: pandemic possibilities 20Julie White2 Re-enchanting the world: la bruja and class struggle inChicana/Latina cultural production 37Norell Martínez3 Sex, science, and the politics of uncertainty 52Joanna Wuest4 To run like a girl: state transmisogyny and the legalconstruction of gender in Hecox v. Little (2020) 77Kathryn J. PerkinsPART II FEMINIST AND ANTI-FEMINIST WOMEN IN POLITICS5 The conquering conservative: how white feminism has fueledconservative women’s rhetoric 101Amanda Roberti and Catherine Wineinger6 Doubly underestimated: antifeminism and the engagement offar-right women – considerations of supposed contradictions 117Rebekka Blum, Julia Haas, and Michaela Köttig7 Intended consequences: the fall of Roe v. Wade 142Mary Ziegler8 Sexism, misogyny, and gender violence: feminist politicalthought in the colonial, heteropatriarchal, carceral state of Australia 160Ana Stevenson and Susan HopkinsPART III CONFRONTING, DE-ESCALATING, ANDUNMASKING VIOLENCE9 Carceral feminism and the punitive state in Kerala State, India 194Devika Jayakumari10 Lived accounts of #MeToo and slanting towards Beauvoir 219Patricia Moynagh11 Deterritorializing intersectionality 250Elena Gambino12 Adriana Cavarero’s “Inclinations” and the problem of dispossession 267Mary CaputiPART IV LONGING, BEREAVEMENT, DESIRE13 Black maternal grief and grievance against the Liberal State:visionary pragmatism and politics otherwise 284Erica S. Lawson14 The material maternal: feminist representations of motherhoodby contemporary artist–mothers 304Tawny Andersen15 Black women and human emancipation: Sylvia Wynter,Angela Davis, and the New Consciousness 328Anand Commissiong16 K-Pop and Koreaboo: a feminist analysis of the racial andsexual politics of the transnational media fandom 350Min Joo Lee, Lily Chu, Inhye Irene Han, and Ji Sun JeonPART V ON THE GROUND ACTIVISM, AUDIBILITY, ANDAMPLIFYING AGENCY17 Feminists strike against neoliberalism: social reproduction,financial extractivism, and debt 368Verónica Gago18 A dialogue between two grassroots Chinese feminists 381Sanshan Lin19 Inaudible voices: transnational feminism, music, and listeningin our time of crisis 393Nalini Ghuman20 Rethinking feminist political subjectivity with deconstructionand negative dialectics 413Claudia LeebPART VI WEAVING, SEAM-RIPPING, AND RE-STITCHING21 Woman, life, freedom: Iran’s feminist uprising in historicaland transnational perspective 437Catherine Z. Sameh22 Connecting the many threads of Arab feminist political thought 448miriam cooke23 Omoluabi feminism: political leadership through an African lens 466Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola24 Feminisms in a time of permanent war: still we persist,organize, endure, resist 480Françoise Vergès

‘The Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought offers an original and insightful collection of essays drawing from different theoretical perspectives and geographical locations to explore such diverse themes as carceral feminism, motherhood, Korean pop culture, #MeToo, misogyny and transmisogyny, racialized state violence, Arab feminism, feminist strikes, and far right extremism.’