Feminist Trouble. Intersectional Politics in Post-Secular Times

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Title
Feminist Trouble. Intersectional Politics in Post-Secular Times
Author(s)
Lépinard Eléonore
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Address of publication
Oxford, New York
Publication state
Published
Issued date
07/05/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Language
english
Abstract
For more than two decades Islamic veils, niqabs, burkinis, have been the object of intense public scrutiny and legal regulations in many Western countries, especially in Europe, and feminists have been actively engaged on both sides of the debates: defending ardently strict prohibitions to ensure Muslim women’s emancipation, or, by contrast, promoting accommodation in the name of women’s religious agency and a more inclusive feminist movement. These recent developments have unfolded in a context of rising right-wing populism in Europe and have fueled “femonationalism”, i.e. the instrumentalization of women’s rights for xenophobic agendas. This book proposes to explore this contemporary troubled context for feminism, its current divisions and its future. It investigates how these changes have transformed contemporary feminist movements, intersectionality politics, and the feminist collective subject, and how feminists have been enrolled in the femonationalist project or, conversely, have resisted it in two contexts: France and Québec. It provides new empirical data on contemporary feminist activists, as well as a critical normative argument about the subject and future of feminism. It makes a contribution to intersectionality theory by reflecting on the dynamics of convergence and difference between race and religion. At the normative level, the book provides an original addition to vivid debates in feminist political theory and philosophy on the subject of feminism. It argues that feminism is better understood not as centered around an identity —women —, but around what it calls a feminist ethic of responsibility, which foregrounds a pragmatist moral approach to the feminist project.
Keywords
Feminist theory, feminist movement, intersectionality, feminist ethics, ethics of care, whiteness, femonationalism, France, Québec, political subjectivation, Islamic veiling debate
Open Access
Yes
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation / Scientific communication / 10BP12_189051
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