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Handbook of Gender and Activism
Inclusive Pages
139-162
Creation Date
2025
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
This innovative Handbook examines how gender shapes social activism and is shaped by activism. With a unique interdisciplinary focus, it explores the effects of the gender binary on experiences of activism, considering how different movements negotiate and, at times, challenge these traditional conceptions. It then moves beyond the binary to explore how gender is challenged by contemporary movements.
Expert authors discuss the impact and limitations of the gender binary, using examples such as the MeToo movement to demonstrate how viewing men and women as separate, monolithic categories results in countless differences being overlooked. Chapters present a range of global and intersectional case studies such as the gender hierarchies in Swedish activism, Black women’s involvement in abolition movements, and feminist campaigns in Saudi Arabia. The Handbook also moves beyond the binary, adopting a transfeminist approach in relation to the experiences of trans, intersex, and non-binary people, and crucially advocating for the conceptualization of a more expansive gender system and the ways in which gender aids activism and impedes it.
This thought-provoking Handbook is a vital resource for students and scholars of gender politics, social movements, discrimination, and social inequality. It is also an enlightening read for academics interested in employing intersectional and transfeminist perspectives in their research.
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Author's Accepted Manuscript
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Part of the International Handbooks on Gender series
Edited by Jo Reger, Professor of Sociology, Oakland University, Rachel L. Einwohner, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University and Kelsy Kretschmer, Associate Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University, USA