Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South by Loureiro, Gabriela Silva;

Rövid leírás:

This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered. 

Hosszú leírás:

This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered. What are the emotions involved in building and sustaining solidarity? What can we learn from previous “waves” of feminist activism, and what is worth saving in social media activism today?

These questions are tackled via the discourse analysis of hashtagged posts of two popular feminist hashtags in Brazil (

Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction

PART I: Recognition

1. Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and hashtag feminism in Brazil

2. Belonging and transformed subjectivities

3. Bodily expressions of emotions

4. A difficult vocabulary

PART II: Breaking the silence

5. Saturation

6. Narrative strategies

PART III: Shelter

7. Collective voices

8. Hashtag feminism in the intersections

9. Intersectionality praxis

Conclusion