Online Feminist Activism as Performative Consciousness-Raising: A #MeToo Case Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessamy Gleeson ◽  
Breanan Turner
Keyword(s):  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Feminist Activism

Re-Sounding Feminist Radio

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Radio Programming ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
The Uk

Digital archives of women's radio programming document histories of feminist activism across different eras in multiple global contexts. Mitchell surveys the ongoing development of these archives, examining their role in “re-sounding” women into history. Women's radio can be a place for individual empowerment, expression and creativity, as well as a space for collective and transnational feminist campaigning and activism. A case study of Fem FM women's community radio archive in the UK demonstrates how archives of feminist radio activism become both a repository and a maker of cultural memory.

scholarly journals Hermione’s feminist book club: celebrity activism and cultural critique

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (65) ◽  
pp. 98-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Kannik Haastrup
Keyword(s):  
Book Club ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Star Image ◽  
Online Book ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this article, I analyse how a celebrity can perform cultural critique and feminist activism using her Instagram account and online book club. The celebrity in question is British film star Emma Watson, famous for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise. Watson is performing her activism on gender equality and cultural critique by recommending feminist literature. This study undertakes an analysis of Watson’s presentations of self on Instagram and in her letters in the Our Shared Shelf book club. The analysis takes its point of departure from theories of social media and celebrity culture and film studies as well as investigations of celebrity book clubs and celebrity activism. This case study of Emma Watson’s performance of cultural critique and activism on specific media platforms demonstrates that Watson’s authority is based on her star image as well as the fact that her book club letters and Instagram posts mutually reinforce one another’s written personal arguments and visual documentation.

Consciousness-raising groups with elementary school girls: A case study.

Psychotherapy ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Gerson
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
School Girls

scholarly journals Womanhandling Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Feminist Translation Strategies in a Spanish Translation from 1917

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Feminist Interpretation ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
A Doll's House ◽  
Different Levels

This article analyzes a 1917 indirect translation of Ibsen’sA Doll’s House(1879) by María Lejárraga (1874-1974) as an example of early feminist translation. Relying on the existing theoretical outcomes at the intersection of gender and translation studies, it proposes a way of analyzing diverse translation strategies as a means for womanhandling the literary text, and thus making the most of the prevailing feminist interpretation of its international reception while reinforcing the budding feminist debate in Silver Age Spain and facilitating a specific understanding of the play. The importance of this case study as an example of early feminist translation is based on several factors: (a) this theatre text had a symbolic value in first wave feminism; (b) this Spanish translation was widespread due to Ibsen’s international fame and the national fame of the (overt) mediator Gregorio Martinez Sierra; (c) the feminist activism of the (covert) translator that made her select the text to spread a “thesis” she deemed necessary in Spain at that time for the developing of feminism; and (d) the numerous interventions at different levels (textual, contextual and paratextual) traceable in the translation.

“Feminism Means More Than a Changed World. . . . It Means the Creation of a New Consciousness in Women”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura K. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Wave

Challenging the notion that public actions and political lobbying are the women’s movement’s main tactics, this chapter traces the history of an extra-institutional form of feminism—narrative-based consciousness-raising—from its inception in the 1910s through its contemporary online expression today. Rather than a product of second-wave feminism, narrative-based consciousness-raising has always been central to the women’s movement, as the chapter shows. Narrative-based consciousness-raising as a strategy assumes that, in order to change fundamental societal institutions such as marriage, the nuclear family, and the state, men and women must first change their consciousness about themselves and society. This strategy utilizes personal life stories, or life narratives, to reveal the collective roots of personal problems in order to effect this personal change. The persistence of this strategy through three waves of feminist activism demonstrates the value of raising collective awareness for fighting gendered oppression. The author argues that this continuity is a result of institutionalized knowledge and a response to similar historical circumstances, rather than direct connections between waves.

‘Dude … stop the spread’: antagonism, agonism, and #manspreading on social media

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma A Jane
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Naming And Shaming ◽  
Agonistic Pluralism

Feminist campaigns on social media platforms have recently targeted ‘manspreading’ – a portmanteau describing men who sit in a way which fills multiple seats on public transport. Feminists claim this form of everyday sexism exemplifies male entitlement and have responded by posting candid online photographs of men caught manspreading. These ‘naming and shaming’ digilante strategies have been met with vitriolic responses from men’s rights activists. This article uses debates around manspreading to explore and appraise some key features of contemporary feminist activism online. Given the heat, amplification, and seemingly intractable nature of the argument, it investigates the usefulness of Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism to unpack the conflict. Ultimately, however, agonistic theory is found to have limits – in terms of this case study as well as more broadly. Some final thoughts are offered on how feminists might best navigate the pitfalls of online activism – including the problem of ‘false balance’ – going forward.

Incarcerated women and feminist activism: A case study of Margaretta D’Arcy

Scene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Ciara L. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The North ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Wave

This article interrogates the relationship between feminist activism and performance through an analysis of Margaretta D’Arcy’s time in the Armagh Jail during the republican ‘no-wash’ protest in 1980 in the north of Ireland. D’Arcy, who is an Irish artist, performer and activist, mirrors the performative strategies of the women prison protestors through an engagement with second-wave feminist methodologies. D’Arcy’s embodied and literal archiving of this experience constitutes a moment of performative activism that will be examined throughout the article by drawing on D’Arcy’s perspectives and intentions by engaging with her 1981 memoir of that time, Tell Them Everything, as well as supplementary interviews and archival research.

scholarly journals #Hashtag: How Selected Texts of Popular Culture Engaged With Sexual Assault In the Context of the Me Too Movement in 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 208-217
Author(s):  
Anna Oleszczuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The paper seeks to explore recent shifts within the popular culture with regard to oppression involving gender, class, race, and ethnicity that can be traced back to the #MeToo movement which was revived as a social media hashtag in October 2017 and has since spread all over the world. The paper starts with a brief overview of Western popular culture that “has recently been seen as a champion for feminism . . . with many high-profile female musicians and actresses visibly promoting the movement in their work” (Woodacre 2018, 21). Next, the paper discusses the origins of the Me Too Movement and the way it approaches the meaning of gendered oppressions as well as individualized and collective experiences of survivors of sexual abuse. This is later explored in the examination of the impact of the hashtag-led movement on three works of popular culture: Amazon’s TV series Lorena (2019), Nancy Schwartzman’s documentary Roll Red Roll (2019), and We Believe: the Best Men Can Be (2019) advertisement by Gillette. The entire case study is informed primarily by feminist theory understood as inseparable from feminist activism, following bell hooks’ Feminist theory from margin to center (1984).

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