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Feeling Feminism : Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave, Paperback / softback Book

Feeling Feminism : Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave Paperback / softback

Edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney

Paperback / softback

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From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic video stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force underlying feminist activism.

They are at play in the experiences of injustice, exclusion, caring, and suffering that have fed women’s commitment to building and sustaining a new world. Feeling Feminism examines the ways in which emotions such as anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness influenced second-wave feminis action and theorizing across Canada.

Drawing on affect theory to convey the passion, sense of possibility, and collective political commitment that have characterized feminism, the contributors to this volume reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself. Insights from gender and women’s studies, cultural and literary theory, social psychology, and sociology infuse Feeling Feminism as the contributors explore how emotions shaped and nourished feminist activism.

More generally, they demonstrate the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world.

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