Plural Feminisms: Narrativising Resistance as Everyday Praxis

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Drawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. How individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities. Plural Feminisms spurs a discussion on how structural violence is identified and resisted, and the invisible and emotional labour that goes on behind this resistance. The book documents the resistance strategies feminists employ on a daily basis to survive, and to form and sustain dissident kinships, that remain unread, unheard, overlooked, and excluded from dominant discourses of being and becoming. Through autoethnography, feminist, queer and/or trans and genderqueer, indigenous, Black and racialised, disabled and neurodivergent scholars in the academy reflect on their engagement with feminisms as well as their unique resistance methodsembracing and exploring complexities and challenges that both entail. It foregrounds the critical importance of first-person narratives in developing an expansive understanding of what it means to be a feminist, the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and the socio-cultural value of subversion.

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Plural Feminisms is a deeply feminist text offering contemporary insights from those who resist the neo-liberal orthodoxy of the academy. The authors reflect upon what it means to be a feminist, uncover the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and show the socio-cultural and political value of subversion. * Elizabeth Ettorre, University of Liverpool, UK *

Author Bio

Sohini Chatterjee is a PhD Student in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her work has appeared in journals such as South Asian Popular Culture, Fat Studies, and is forthcoming in Womens Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal. She has authored a chapter for the edited volume entitled India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches (2020). Po-Han Lee is an Assistant Professor on the Global Health Program, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is an Editorial Member for Feminist Review and a Senior Editor for Plain Law Movement, the first multimedia platform for human rights education in Taiwan.