Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and the Academy

Author:   Noelle Chaddock ,  Beth Hinderliter ,  Piya Chatterjee ,  Timothy W. Gerken
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498588348


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   29 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and the Academy


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Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive scholarship and discourse coming out of women-centered spaces and projects, which throw up barriers by narrowly defining who can participate. Vehement resistance to using inclusive language and renaming scholarly spaces like Women’s Studies and Critical Feminism expresses itself in concerns that women are still oppressed and thus women-only spaces must be maintained. But who is a woman? What are the characteristics of a woman’s lived experience? Do affinity and a history of oppression justify exclusion? This book shows how intersectional feminism is often underperformed and appropriated as a “woke” vocabulary by elite women who are unwilling to do the necessary emotional work around their privilege. As Trans Women, Femmes, Women of Color, Queer Women, Gender Variant, and Gender Non-Conforming scholars emerge, the heteronormative, cisgender, colonial idea of women and the feminine is rapidly under attack. The contributors believe that to engage in the necessary conversations about the oppressed performing oppression is to disrupt the exclusionary basis of monolithic understandings of the feminine. Only then can we advance the coalition needed to forge a multiracial, multicultural, queer-led, anti-imperialist feminism.

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Author:   Noelle Chaddock ,  Beth Hinderliter ,  Piya Chatterjee ,  Timothy W. Gerken
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781498588348


ISBN 10:   1498588344
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   29 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Beverly Guy-Sheftall Introduction: “Antagonizing White Feminism,” Noelle Chaddock and Beth Hinderliter 1. “White Feminism is the Only Feminism.” Noelle Chaddock 2. “Unsettling Dominant Femininities: Promissory Notes Towards an Antiracist Feminist College.” Piya Chatterjee 3. “Repo Fem.” Tim Gerkin 4. “White Innocence as a Feminist Discourse: Intersectionality, and the 2016 US Presidential Elections.” Sara Salem 5. “Building Kinfulness.” Beth Hinderliter 6. “Trans Youth in Argentina.” Pablo Scharagrodsky and Magalí Pérez Riedel 7. “To Be New, Black, Female and Academic: Renaissance of Womanism within Academia.” Vanessa Drew-Branch, Sonyia Richardson, and Laneshia Conner 8. “A Rejection of White Feminist Cisgender Allyship: Centering Intersectionality.” Beth Hinderliter and Noelle Chaddock

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An unflinching testimonial on the need to defy and erase margins and centers in the practice of feminisms and the discipline of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The editors and contributors demand the decolonizing and de-whitening of structures, languages, methods, philosophies and central actors within these spaces.--Besi Muhonja, James Madison University


This is a timely and provocative collection. The editors have shaped a volume that moves beyond critique and points the way towards an inclusive politics of liberation. --Marjorie Hass, Rhodes College An unflinching testimonial on the need to defy and erase margins and centers in the practice of feminisms and the discipline of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The editors and contributors demand the decolonizing and de-whitening of structures, languages, methods, philosophies, and central actors within these spaces.--Besi Muhonja, James Madison University


An unflinching testimonial on the need to defy and erase margins and centers in the practice of feminisms and the discipline of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The editors and contributors demand the decolonizing and de-whitening of structures, languages, methods, philosophies and central actors within these spaces.--Besi Muhonja, James Madison University This is a timely and provocative collection. The editors have shaped a volume that moves beyond critique and points the way towards an inclusive politics of liberation. --Marjorie Hass, Rhodes College


Author Information

Beth Hinderliter is assistant professor of art history and director of the Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University. Noelle Chaddock is vice president of equity and inclusion at Bates College.

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