1st Edition
Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizing in Contemporary Social Movements
Introduction
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
1. Affective dimensions and the psychosocial work performed by naked body protests
Mpho Mathebula
2. Ambivalent effects of anger in Chinese feminists’ refusal to patriarchal marriage and family
Yushuang Yang
3. Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism
Mélissa Blais
4. The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India
Kiran Vinod Bhatia
5. Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys
Verna Alcalde-González, Ana Gálvez-Mozo and Alan Valenzuela-Bustos
6. Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy
Anastasia Barone
7. Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left
Jenny Morrison
8. Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan
Minwoo Jung
9. Organizing under pressure: authoritarianism, respectability politics, and LGBT advocacy in Rwanda
Emma Paszat
10. “I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast
Austin H. Johnson, Baker A. Rogers, Ivy Hill and Rose Bialer
11. Framing and shaming: LGBT activism, feminism and the construction of ‘gestational surrogacy’ in Italy
Francesca Romana Ammaturo
Biography
Cristina Flesher Fominaya (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies and a founding editor of Interface Journal. Her latest books include Democracy Reloaded (2020) and Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020).
Damon Eguiarte Flesher is Managing Editor at Social Movement Studies and has also collaborated as Managing Editor on the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Flesher Fominaya and Feenstra, 2020). Damon also works as a Spanish-English translator.
