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Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South: On Building Solidarity book cover

1st Edition

Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South On Building Solidarity

By Gabriela Silva Loureiro Copyright 2025
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

Gabriela Silva Loureiro is a feminist scholar with a strong synergy between research and teaching. Her main research interests are genders, sexualities, antiracism, decoloniality, and emotions. She currently works as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Wollongong, Australia, having held previous teaching and research positions in the UK. Her recent outputs look at the meaning-making of gender-based violence in Brazil (2023) and the work of Marielle Franco as an embodiment of Black feminist praxis (2020).

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