Taking risks
Subtitle: feminist activism and research in the Americas
By: edited by Julie Shayne ; foreword by Margaret Randall
Series: SUNY series, praxis: theory in action
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781438452456
Subjects: Feminism; History; Social justice
Description: "Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women. The essays are based on the textual analysis of interviews, oral histories, ethnography, video storytelling, and theater. The contributors come from many disciplinary backgrounds, including theater, history, literature, sociology, feminist studies, and cultural studies. The topics range from the underground library movement in Cuba, femicide in Juárez, community radio in Venezuela, video archives in Colombia, exiled feminists in Canada, memory activism in Argentina, sex worker activists in Brazil, rural feminists in Nicaragua, to domestic violence organizations for Latina immigrants in Texas. Each essay addresses two themes: telling stories and taking risks. The authors understand women activists across the Americas as storytellers who, along with the authors themselves, work to fill the Latin American and Caribbean studies archives with histories of resistance. In addition to sharing the activists' stories, the contributors weave in discussions of scholarly risk taking to speak to the challenges and importance of elevating the storytellers and their histories."--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: About the cover; title: Monument to civilians massacred at Plaza de Mayo / Nora Patrich; title: Foreword; title: The thing about taking risks / Margaret Randall; title: Introduction; title: Research, risk, and activism : feminists' stories of social justice / Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle; title: Section onepart one: texts, stories, and activism; title: Writing and activism / Carmen Rodríguez; title: Absence in memories : reading stories of survival in Argentina / Mahala Lettvin; title: Chilean exiles and their feminist stories / Julie Shayne; title: Navigating the Cuban ideological divide : research on the independent libraries movement / Marisela Fleites-Lear; title: Section twopart two: performed stories of social justice; title: We also built the city of Medellín : Deplazadas' family albums as feminist archival activism / Tamera Marko; title: Who owns the archive? : community media in contemporary Venezuela / Robin Garcia; title: Echoes of injustice : performative activism and the femicide plaguing Ciudad Juárez / Christina Marín; title: Section threepart three: activist stories from the grassroots; title: Feminist tensions : race, sex work, and women/s activism in Bahia / Erica Lorraine Williams; title: Latina battered immigrants, citizenship and inequalities : reflections on activist research / Roberta Villalón; title: Rural feminism and revolution in Nicaragua : voices of the Compañeras / Shelly Grabe; title: Conclusion; title: Afterword; title: Mother's day / Julie Shayne; title: About the authorscontributors; title: Index.