Taking Risks
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Taking Risks

Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas

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Taking Risks

Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas

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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 JuĂĄrez, 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.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781438452470
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Foreword: The Thing about Taking Risks
  7. Introduction: Research, Risk, and Activism: Feminists’ Stories of Social Justice
  8. Del Cielo los Vieron Llegar/From the Sky They Saw Them Coming
  9. Part 1. Texts, Stories, and Activism
  10. Part 2. Performed Stories of Social Justice
  11. Part 3. Activist Stories from the Grassroots
  12. Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity and Privilege
  13. Afterword: Mother’s Day
  14. Contributors
  15. Index
  16. Back Cover