Take Back the Fight
Subtitle: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd.; Fernwood Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Halifax, Canada; Winnipeg, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781773632414
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: Almost forty years ago to the day that I'm writing these words, Barbra Schlifer was sexually assaulted and murdered in Toronto's east end.
Description: "Social movements across North America have suffered from the rise of neoliberalism. Feminism in particular has not been able to call itself a structured movement since the 1990s with the end of National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Instead, feminism and other social movements have survived in a grassroots, disjointed manner. While the work of transition houses and crisis centres, student movements and gender studies departments, Indigenous woman-led land defence, BIPOC anti-racist organizing, social media campaigns and much more continues to claim and develop feminism, as a social movement feminism lacks purposeful structure. As a result, feminism has become prey to individualism and outsourced to digital platforms that seek to make money off harassment and acrimonious debates. Feminist identity and political demands are more and more in vogue, so much so that it seems that everything can be called feminist: from anti-abortion activists to the Prime Minister of Canada. This book argues that liberal, individualized feminism can be made accountable through a formal movement structure to bring sense and practice to ongoing feminist thought and action; this kind of formal movement structure plays a critical role not just in creating social change, but also in building leadership, feminist practice, innovation and debate."--
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Introduction; title: If Mainstream Feminism Says Everything Can Be Feminist, Is Anything Feminist?
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: White Supremacy and the First Feminist Waves in Canada
pagenum: 13; title: The Mainstream, White Women's Movement
pagenum: 14; title: The Second wave and the Rise of the National Action Committee
pagenum: 20; title: A New Wave Begins
pagenum: 26; label: 2
title: Neoliberalism and Decentralized Activism
pagenum: 31; title: The 1990s and 2000s: Decentralized Feminist Action
pagenum: 37; title: Neoliberal Feminism and Canadian Politics
pagenum: 43; title: Confronting Neoliberalism Through Grassroots Community Action
pagenum: 47; label: 3
title: Feminism in the Digital Era
pagenum: 51; title: Digital Feminism and the Feminist Blogosphere
pagenum: 52; title: Neoliberalism, the Internet and Hashtag Feminism
pagenum: 54; title: Digital Misogyny and the Far Right
pagenum: 60; label: 4
title: Social Movement Organizations as a Vehicle for Change
pagenum: 67; title: Social Movement Organizing in the Age of Social Media
pagenum: 69; title: The Neoliberal Transformation of Social Movements
pagenum: 76; title: A NAC 2.0?
pagenum: 80; label: 5
title: Debating and Re-Debating What is Feminism
pagenum: 85; title: Creating Spaces of Robust Debate
pagenum: 89; title: Good Feminists Versus Bad Feminists
pagenum: 93; title: No Means No Versus Yes Means Yes
pagenum: 96; title: Debates that Cause Harm
pagenum: 99; title: Moving the Terms of Debate
pagenum: 102; label: 6
title: Disseminating Feminist Knowledge in the Digital Era
pagenum: 107; title: Mainstream Education and Teaching White, Hetero-Patriarchy
pagenum: 108; title: Creating and Disseminating Feminist Knowledge
pagenum: 111; title: TW: Trigger Warnings
pagenum: 116; title: TW: White Feminism
pagenum: 121; title: Knowledge Creation and the Digital Age
pagenum: 125; label: 7
title: Ad Hoc Organizing in the Digital Age
pagenum: 129; title: The Slut Walk Phenomenon
pagenum: 130; title: Taking Action Through a Social Movement
pagenum: 135; title: Organizing to Resist Co-Optation
pagenum: 140; title: Ad Hoc Organizing and the Canadian Women's March
pagenum: 143; label: 8
title: Accountable Leadership
pagenum: 151; title: Leadership Born from the Grassroots
pagenum: 152; title: Generations of Feminist Leadership
pagenum: 155; title: Prepare to be Doxxed -- Leadership in the Digital Era
pagenum: 158; title: The Far-Right Leader Machine
pagenum: 161; label: 9
title: Feminist Opposition to Power
pagenum: 167; title: Feminists and the Constitution
pagenum: 168; title: A Feminist in the Prime Minister's Office
pagenum: 171; title: Feminist Parliamentarians Are Not Enough
pagenum: 178; title: Gender Based Analysis+ -- Feminism for Show or for Real?
pagenum: 182; label: 10
title: Mainstreaming Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Racist Feminism
pagenum: 189; title: Corporate Feminism Versus Anti-Capitalist Feminism
pagenum: 190; title: Anti-Racist Feminism
pagenum: 197; title: Erasing Colour and the Maintenance of White Supremacy
pagenum: 201; title: Policing and State Violence
pagenum: 204; label: Afterword; title: To Make Radical Feminism Mainstream
pagenum: 211; label: Notes
pagenum: 217; label: Index
pagenum: 236