Differences Between Women? Intersecting Voices in a Female Narrative

Ludvig, Alice

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“…It engages with these concepts not as separate entities, but ways in which they overlap, 'ways in which each is implied in and experienced through the other …' (Maynard 2001: 131). This study also incorporates the intersectionality theory which highlights varying levels of inequities, such as race, gender class, age and how they are interactive and intersect in shaping and defining women's experiences (Ludvig 2006;Crenshaw 1991;McCall 2005;Yuval Davis 2006). Thus, this paper argues that race and gender, along with class and religion are central to understanding resistance strategies of women in South Africa and India's road to democracy.…”

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Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Hiralal

2017

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Women have been at the forefront of global nationalist movements. In Latin America, Asia and Africa colonialism and its subjugation of men and women inevitably led to the rise of nationalistic fervour. In both South Africa and India women were at the forefront of the struggle challenging gender roles and creating new spaces for their political activism. This paper adopts a gender lens and engages in a comparative approach to document the role and contributions of women in the nationalist and anti-apartheid movement in India and South Africa respectively. It highlights the similarities and differences in terms of their mode of resistance, political agency and mobilisation. More significantly, it documents the challenges and constraints they endured in different geographical settings, in the context of gender, class, race/ethnicity and religion and how it shaped and defined their political activism and consciousness. This article contributes to narratives on gender and nationalism and how regional and continental histories shape and define women's participation and opportunities.

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Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Hiralal

2017

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“…In fact, most theorists of intersectionality do not even mention religion (besides Crenshaw, and other widely quoted scholars such as Davis 2008;Ludvig 2006;Lykke 2005;McCall 2005;Nash 2008). Those scholars who at least mention religion, even if on a rather general level, as a 'difference' or 'category' to be considered tend to be those who think within postcolonial feminism.…”

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2017

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture a

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Founded in 2017, Feminist Encounters is a journal committed to argument and debate, in the tradition of historical feminist movements.In the wake of the growing rise of the Right across the world, openly neo-fascist national sentiments, and rising conservative populism, we feminists all over the world are needing to remobilise our energies to protect and advance gender rights.Feminist Encounters provides a forum for feminist theorists, scholars, and activists to communicate with each other, to better educate ourselves on international issues and thus promote more global understanding, and to enhance our critical tools for fighting for human rights.Feminism is an intellectual apparatus, a political agenda, and a programme for social change. Critical analysis of how gender discourses produce cultural identities and social practices within diverse lived realities is key to this change. We need to think more sharply in order to strategise well: as the discourses of conservatism renew and invigorate themselves, so we as feminist scholars need to be refining our amazonic swords in order not just to respond effectively but also to innovate our own ideas for equality and social justice.We are, of course, committed to intersectionality, a vital lens through which to see the contours of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, age/ability, and explore how gendered scripts get lived, and filtered through these specificities of cultural organisation. Lived experience is never codified in terms of gender alone, and so our research will always be sensitive to the nexus of lived oppressions.The journal has a large editorial board and journal team, consisting of over forty scholars in twenty countries. This is deliberately inclusive in order that we can promote diversity and engage with different concerns from across the world. Our aim is not to simply talk to ourselves, reconfirming our localised assumptions, but to generate feminist encounters across regions, even if this is sometimes uncomfortable. Globalisation has been a triumph of neoliberalism, but digital technologies have also flattened and reduced the distance between us in dramatic ways, so that now we can talk to each other with unanticipated ease.This new access to each others' voices has also brought challenges to the way we think and do things, so that being a feminist today might be quite a different prospect to a person living in China, Iran, Norway, South Africa or the UK. Second Wave Feminism used the idea of 'sisterhood' to invoke solidarity between women. I've always rather liked Andrea Dworkin's claim, though, that: "Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore." The notion of sisterhood was challenged by Black feminists in the 1980s as being too conceptually white, thus bell hooks' trenchant critique that: "the idea of 'co...

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“…Rather, data from this study evidences how fears were often more firmly linked with locality and studenthood, with gender elements more difficult to 'uncover'. Ludvig (2006) argues that 'gender is a category that one is not easily 'conscious' of because, as a normative category, it is rarely questioned (p.252). Thus, women's fears are often a taken-for-granted aspect of feminine subjectivity and thus not viewed as unusual or problematic.…”

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“…However, one cannot assume that all women experience gender in the same way and recognising 'difference' (Maynard, 1994(Maynard, , 2002 amongst women is central to understanding how gender interlocks with other identities to produce diverse gender experiences. More recent discussions focus on intersectionality in an attempt to fully unpack and understand how multiple identities/oppressions function concurrently (Ludvig, 2006;Phoenix and Pattynama, 2006;Walby, 2007).…”

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Women students’ perceptions of crime and safety: negotiating fear and risk in an English post-industrial landscape

Wattis

Green

Radford

2011

Gender, Place & Culture

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CitationWattis, L., Green, E. E. and Radford, J. (2011) This paper explores safety concerns and fear of crime amongst women students attending university in a large town in the north-east of England. It acknowledges that gender as a social category is problematic; however, the paper is grounded in recognition of its significance in shaping experiences of fear, safety and space. The main aim is to explore how gender intersects with student identity/ies in a specific local context.The paper draws upon qualitative data from doctoral research which explored the crime and fear experiences of women students studying in a town bearing all of the hallmarks of industrial decline. It evidences powerful representations of place with respondents drawing heavily on the town's working-class culture and deindustrialisation in their reading of the locale. In addition, respondents linked the town unequivocally to crime and disorder, and identified the criminal threat as originating from local people. In this way, fears were frequently locally focused, linking to a fear of place and the risks associated with the student identity. This highlights that women's fears and spatial negotiation cannot be read exclusively in terms of gender -in this context they are frequently shaped by 'studenthood' and the dynamics of class and locality. At the same time however, the paper reveals how the local intersects with gender to shape experiences of space, fear and safety, as well as the transformative effects of ethnicity at its intersection with gender, locality and the student identity.Keywords: Identity; students; safety; fear; local context. IntroductionThis article explores women's fears as students in a post-industrial, urban locality where crime and disorder were highly visible features of the social landscape. It is underpinned by a recognition of the salience of gender 1 in shaping women's experiences of space, fear and safety. These themes have been covered extensively in feminist literature and research which focuses on how gender structures, sexual violence, harassment, ideology and discourses of victimisation perpetuate fears and render public space differential and problematic for women (Gordon et al.

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Differences Between Women? Intersecting Voices in a Female Narrative

Cited by 114 publications

References 11 publications

Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

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