Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags

Leila Easa, Jennifer Stager (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4812-9 (ISBN)

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Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. While their concept of public feminism emerges from a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager locate its foundations in history, journeying through broad swatches of time looking for connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture. Each chapter focuses on what public feminists do in the world: Public feminists gain control over an archive that otherwise contains or excludes them; they recover their own stories and subjective experiences, sometimes for activist use; they examine images and language that construct women in patriarchal texts; they situate the individual within a collective and the collective within an individual; they confront the limitations of such situating due to the containment of patriarchy and reclaim new systems of power in response; and they resurface a deep history for the alternative strategies of memorializing they employ. In navigating these practices, the authors also attend to the material conditions of writing histories as well as those shaping and enabling public feminist acts and protests more broadly.

Leila Easa is professor in the English department at City College of San Francisco. Jennifer Stager is assistant professor of history of art at Johns Hopkins University and author of Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theories, Practice, and Reception from Antiquity to the Present.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Managing the Public Body: The Archive, Trauma, and Silence
Chapter Two: Mapping Enclosure and Disclosure
Chapter Three: On the Gendered Politics of Translation
Chapter Four: The Collective Lyric I
Chapter Five: The Parabolic Curve
Chapter Six: Scaling Loss, Listing Names
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2024
Zusatzinfo	8 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-7936-4812-3 / 1793648123
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4812-9 / 9781793648129
Zustand	Neuware