While third-wave feminists do not have an entirely different set of issues or solutions to long-standing dilemmas, the movement does constitute, more than simply a rebellion against second-wave ...mothers. What really differentiates the third wave from the second is the tactical approach it offers to some of the impasses that developed within feminist theory in the 1980s. Third-wave feminism continues the efforts of second-wave feminism to create conditions of freedom, equality, justice, and self-actualization for all people by focusing on gender-related issues in particular, even as it offers a different set of tactics for achieving those goals. Here, Snyder explores a wide array of popular and academic literature on third-wave feminism in an attempt to make sense of a movement that on its face may seem life a confusing hodgepodge of personal anecdotes and individualistic claims.
Beyond wishful thinking Tummers, Lidewij; MacGregor, Sherilyn
International journal of the commons,
05/2019, Volume:
13, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Co-housing has re-emerged in European cities as a model of common dwelling that aims to be ecologically and socially sustainable. Although it is the subject of growing academic interest, there are ...significant gaps in knowledge and wishful thinking about its promise that is not substantiated by evidence. We examine co-housing from a feminist political ecology (FPE) perspective with the aim of contributing to research on co-housing, and commoning more generally, as alternative practices in affluent Global North cities. Drawing on extensive research on co-housing in Europe and our observations from joint visits to four co-housing projects in the Netherlands and the UK, we cast critical feminist light on sharing practices at the level of the collectivized household. In addition to identifying synergies and tensions between FPE and recent literature on the radical promise of commoning, we raise questions about the extent to which the seeds of transformative, post-capitalist and post-patriarchal change are being sown in actually existing co-housing projects. We conclude with questions toward an agenda for co-housing research that moves beyond wishful thinking.
This article examines early critiques of ecofeminism, including those usefully articulated by pathfinding ecofeminist philosopher Victoria Davion, and argues that concerns over essentialist ...tendencies in ecofeminism are misplaced. The article holds that the term “ecofeminism” performs theoretically and politically useful work by allowing us to think of feminism and environmentalism together—the term ought not be jettisoned in favor of other terms such as, for example, environmental feminism. While taking this stance, this article nonetheless explores in depth the productive effects and development of such critiques into the current era of ecofeminist writings and activisms, paying significant attention to the role Davion's ovial 1994 essay “Is Ecofeminism Feminist?” and the other works it inspired have played in indelibly altering ecofeminism for the better, producing a more nuanced theoretical stance regarding gender and ecological degradation and oppression that is now, more than three decades later, shedding important light on specific environmental problems and how such problems are, as all ecofeminisms argue, conceptually and materially connected to social oppressions.
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary ...cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History. Grant FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P (research Project “Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies”) funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe.”
Este artículo analiza La brecha (1961) de Mercedes Valdivieso, considerada la primera novela feminista de Chile. A partir de este antecedente, se busca problematizar los significados del feminismo ...que encarna el texto. Para alcanzar dicho propósito, se realiza, en primer lugar, una lectura en clave genealógica en torno a los principales acontecimientos e investigaciones sobre el rol de las prácticas literarias en la construcción de ideas feministas en Chile a partir del siglo XX. Posteriormente, a través de la puesta en diálogo con Los vigilantes (1994) de Diamela Eltit y Contra los hijos (2018) de Lina Meruane, se analizan los conceptos de cuerpo y maternidad, ejes articuladores del pensamiento de Valdivieso. Finalmente, se realizan algunas aproximaciones críticas sobre las aperturas y tensiones de La brecha en contraste con las emergencias de la política feminista reciente.
This article analyzes La brecha (1961) by Mercedes Valdivieso, considered the first feminist novel in Chile. From this background, it seeks to problematize the meanings of feminism embodied in the text. To achieve this purpose, first, a genealogical reading of the main events and research on the role of literary practices in the construction of feminist ideas in Chile since the twentieth century is carried out. Subsequently, through the dialogue with Los vigilantes (1994) by Diamela Eltit and Contra los hijos (2018) by Lina Meruane, the concepts of body and motherhood, pivotal themes of Valdivieso’s thought, are analyzed. Finally, some critical approaches are made on the openings and tensions of La Brecha in contrast with the emergences of recent feminist politics.
UNA BRUJA RECORRE EL MUNDO Bolívar, Rubí Carreño
Revista chilena de literatura,
11/2021
104
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
La brecha de Mercedes Valdivieso fue leída en los años sesenta como un “escándalo” y luego, en los ochenta, como “la primera novela feminista de Latinoamérica” (Guerra-Cunningam 45), es decir, como ...si fuera un momento fundacional de la narrativa de mujeres. ¿ Cómo podemos leer La brecha en la actualidad? ¿ Cómo dialoga con una historia de la narrativa escrita por mujeres en Chile? ¿ De qué forma recoge, o no, temas de la agenda feminista actual? ¿ En qué aspectos radica su valor literario y político? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que orientan la escritura de este artículo.
La brecha by Mercedes Valdivieso was read in the 1960s as a “scandal” and then, in the 1980s, as “the first feminist novel in Latin America” (Guerra-Cunningham 45). Thus, as if it has always been a founding moment of the narrative of women. How can we read La brecha today? How does it dialogue with the history of women narrative in Chile? In what way does it collect or not topics on the current feminist agenda? Which are its literary and political values? These are the questions that guide the writing of this article.
La brecha (1961) comienza con una advertencia: “El personaje de esta novela no tiene nombre, pero podría ser el de cualquier mujer de nuestra generación” (Valdivieso, La brecha 7). Estas palabras, ...tres líneas apenas2, permiten tomar una primera hebra al momento de desenmarañar el trayecto de algunos de los nudos presentes en la aparición e instalación de la novela debut de Mercedes Valdivieso en el campo cultural chileno. Estoy hablando del signo mujer enunciado en la advertencia, el cual se emplea no solo para signar la subjetividad y rol de la protagonista del relato –como es evidente por lo que el enunciado advierte– sino también al libro en su proceso de instalación en la institucionalidad literaria de mediados del siglo XX en la llamada “literatura de mujeres”. Estas notas persiguen cruces, intersecciones y encuentros entre las estrategias estéticas y políticas con arranque feminista3 presentes en el momento de producción, publicación, difusión y recepción de la novela en el Chile de 1961, con el propósito de hacer visibles una serie de condiciones materiales y abstractas que determinan el ingreso de Mercedes Valdivieso al campo cultural chileno de mediados del siglo XX y su posterior legitimación en el mismo, siendo esta última una a medias, coartada, pues ocurre tras un proceso de sujeción de la autoría de la escritora respecto a su rol a/signado socialmente bajo los parámetros y herramientas de sujeción de la identidad, como lo es la herramienta del género4, que, al decodificar el relato del cuerpo tras la escritura –un cuerpo que existe de cara a una cultura que universaliza lo masculino como la neutralidad, la norma y todo “lo otro”, todo lo demás, como lo particular; lo nominado como lo otro, de hecho– signa también la correspondencia –o no– de ese cuerpo material con el espacio virtual en el que se instala: en una relación de tutelaje o no de las escritoras con el domicilio literario5.
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