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Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

From Sappho's Fragments to Viral Hashtags
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Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. Rooted in a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and Jennifer M. S. Stager locate the foundations of public feminism in history, journeying through broad swatches of time to uncover connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture. Each chapter focuses on what public feminists do in the world: they gain control over an archive that otherwise contains or excludes them; they recover their own stories and subjective experiences, sometimes for activist use; they examine images and language that construct women in patriarchal texts; they situate the individual within a collective and the collective within an individual; they confront the limitations of such situating due to the containment of patriarchy and reclaim new systems of power in response; and they resurface a deep history for the alternative strategies of memorializing they employ. In navigating these practices, the authors also attend to the material conditions of writing histories, both in the past and in the writing of this book, along with those shaping and enabling public feminist acts and protests more broadly.
Leila Easa is instructor of English at City College of San Francisco. Jennifer Stager is assistant professor of ancient Mediterranean art and architecture at Johns Hopkins University.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Managing the Public Body: The Archive, Trauma, and Silence Chapter Two: Mapping Enclosure and Disclosure Chapter Three: On the Gendered Politics of Translation Chapter Four: The Collective Lyric I Chapter Five: The Parabolic Curve Chapter Six: Scaling Loss, Listing Names Conclusion Bibliography About the Authors
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