Intifada Incantation #2

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Mekhatansh McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This work examines how June Jordan's poetry dedicated to solidarity is a pedagogical and epistemological framework in SOLHOTLex and in engaging Black girls around the interconnectedness of the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Syrians under the Bashar Al Assad regime. It begins to answer the questions of how frameworks like womanism and postcolonial feminist theory inform engagement around solidarity in SOLHOTLex and organizing Black girls while examining what critical engagement and organizing looks like when the voices of Black girls are in symphony with the rest of the world's resistance struggles.

Writing Lebanese Feminist History

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 208-216
Author(s):  
Nicole Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
International Context ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Collective Activism ◽  
Important Shift

In this chapter, Nicole Khoury analyzes the editorials in one of Lebanon’s most successful feminist journals, Al-Raida. Through examining the first decade of Rose Ghurayyib’s editorials, she recovers a part of Lebanese feminist history that has been largely ignored. The editorials illustrate that arguments for gender equality in the midseventies were grounded in liberal feminist theory. Written during the violent civil war, and the period of foreign influences, the editorials mark a shift in the focus of the Lebanese feminist movement to postcolonial feminist theory, a shift that changed the way the movement articulated its goals. While the editorials first addressed an English-speaking elite Lebanese audience, they later began to focus on a collective activism that defined women’s needs and goals within the larger national and international context, marking an important shift in Lebanese feminist history.

#MeToo, the ICTY, and Intersectionality in Postsocialist Global Capitalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-230
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Zenovich ◽  
Leda Cooks
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Rape Survivors ◽  
Material Equation ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

In this essay, we theorize and analyze (some of) the intercultural and intersecting structures that undergird rape and its representation in #MeToo via testimonial examples from rape survivors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). While we recognize the importance of the ICTY’s ruling and of #MeToo, we remain critical of the conditions that necessitated them and that continue to mark women’s bodies as vulnerable. Utilizing both postsocialist and postcolonial feminist theory as a lens, we specifically look to how bodies are articulated both as capital/property and, in the same international judicial frame, vessels for punishment and justice. We focus on how the ICTY defined justice for rape on a mediated international stage, how identities and cultures were situated discursively in the trial, and the implications for thinking through justice for intersectionality in #MeToo. Our claim is that the symbolic and material equation of women/women’s bodies as property is foundational to the operations of capital. With this framework in mind, it may be useful to consider how undoing capital may in turn challenge the normalization of women’s precarity, victimization, and therefore, experiences of sexual violence.

Unsettling the South through Postcolonial Feminist Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-570
Author(s):  
Amy Piedalue ◽  
Susmita Rishi
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The South ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word

PMLA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 1735-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toril Moi
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Feminist Work

If PMIA invites us to reflect on the state of feminist theory today, it must be because there is a problem. Is feminist theory thought to be in trouble because feminism is languishing? Or because there is a problem with theory? Or—as it seems to me—both? Theory is a word usually used about work done in the poststructuralist tradition. (Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault are “theory” Simone de Beauvoir and Ludwig Wittgenstein are not.) The poststructuralist paradigm is now exhausted. We are living through an era of “crisis,” as Thomas Kuhn would call it, an era in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born (74–75). The fundamental assumptions of feminist theory in its various current guises (queer theory, postcolonial feminist theory, transnational feminist theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, and so on) are still informed by some version of poststructuralism. No wonder, then, that so much feminist work today produces only tediously predictable lines of argument.

scholarly journals Oppression and Emancipation of African American Women in Suzan Lori Parks’ Venus

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Muhannad Hassan Jasim ◽  
Lajiman Janoory
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
African Women ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
American Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

The aim of this paper is to critically explore various challenges faced by oppressed and suppressed African American women in the western societies. It also explores the varied emancipatory efforts they make when striving to absolve themselves of the forces of oppression and dehumanization as portrayed by Suzan Lori Parks in her play, Venus. The paper uses the postcolonial feminist theory of the Subaltern as the basis for the analysis to thoroughly examine the play extrinsically and intrinsically. In her play, Suzan- Lori Parks portrays African American women facing the turbulence of racism, discrimination and inequality in the western socio-geographical setting. She confidently and aesthetically reveals various challenges hindering the progress and life fulfilment of the African American women through the heroine of her play. The paper traces the history of Venus, unveils the cruelty of the European mentality and racial discrimination against African women. It also shows the rights of African women and identifies new ways for them to express their identities. Finally, the paper reveals that despite the obvious and prevalent acts of discrimination for African women for over the years, the problem persists. However, unlike the pre–Civil Rights era, today’s discrimination is less readily identifiable.

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