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Feeling feminism : activism, affect, and Canada's second wave
- Title
- Feeling feminism : activism, affect, and Canada's second wave / edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney.
- Publication
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- viii, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Feeling Feminism examines the ways in which emotions such as anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness influenced second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force in the actions underlying feminist history. They are at play in the experiences of injustice, exclusion, caring, and suffering that have fed women's commitment to building and sustaining a new world. The movement was at its height from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, but this groundbreaking study embraces the perspective of a long second wave, reaching back to the 1950s and forward into the early 1990s. Drawing explicitly on the history of emotions and affect theory to convey the passion, the sense of possibility, and the energizing collective political commitment that has characterized feminism, contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself. Insights from gender and women's studies, cultural and literary theory, social psychology, and sociology infuse Feeling Feminism, as the contributors explore how emotions shaped and nourished feminist activism. More generally, they demonstrate the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Contents
- Introduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney -- Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women's Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood -- Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel -- "Feeling My Way": Women's Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett -- Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile -- "Jesus is not part of this collective": Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi -- Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward -- Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminisn, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin -- An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna -- Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funke Aladejebi -- "Briser le mur du silence": Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists' Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet -- Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew Fesnak.
- ISBN
- 0774866500
- 9780774866507
- 9780774866514
- 0774866519
- OCLC
- 1276849184
- on1276849184
- SCSB-14388911
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library