Transnational Feminisms in Francophonie Space

Maillé, Chantal

doi:10.1080/09574042.2012.644491

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“…For instance, Francophone Quebec feminism and its internalization of narratives of national oppression in which French Quebec's settlers were conquered by Britain, failing to examine indigenous dispossession and colonial anti-Native racism (Maillé 2012). This is an example of these multiple layers of inequality and how dismissing them contributes to the reinforcement of power relations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, in the 1960s, Quebec feminists identified with the women's double oppression analysis, related to gender and nation (Maillé 2007), with slogans such as, “No national liberation without women's liberation; no women's liberation without national liberation” (Maillé 2002, 38). In the 1970s, class was also considered an axis of oppression, integrated into the global liberation struggle (Maillé 2012). Also in Scotland, feminists have argued that independence can be seen as an opportunity for women and feminism, as it could open up the possibility of restructuring institutions and society.…”

Section: The Catalan Casementioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism

Rodó-Zárate

2019

Pol & Gen

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Debates on nation, self-determination, and nationalism tend to ignore the gender dimension, women's experiences, and feminist proposals on such issues. In turn, feminist discussions on the intersection of oppressions generally avoid the national identity of stateless nations as a source of oppression. In this article, I relate feminism and nationalism through an intersectional framework in the context of the Catalan pro-independence movement. Since the 1970s, Catalan feminists have been developing theories and practices that relate gender and nationality from an intersectional perspective, which may challenge hegemonic genealogies of intersectionality and general assumptions about the relation between nationalism and gender. Focusing on developments made by feminist activists from past and present times, I argue that women are key agents in national construction and that situated intersectional frameworks may provide new insights into relations among axes of inequalities beyond the Anglocentric perspective.

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Section: The Catalan Casementioning

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Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism

Rodó-Zárate

2019

Pol & Gen

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“…Que´bec scholar Chantal Maille´(2012) has noted that the Francophone origins of the World March of Women partially explains its misfit with discourses of postcolonialism as they have emerged in Anglophone academia. Maille´also argues that there is a misfit between the World March of Women (c. 2000) and Grewal and Kaplan's conception of transnational feminist practices.…”

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Troubling transnational feminism(s): Theorising activist praxis

Conway

2017

Feminist Theory

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This article identifies a misfit between transnational feminist networks observed at the World Social Forum and the extant scholarship on transnational feminism. The conceptual divide is posited as one between transnational feminism understood, on the one hand, as a normative discourse involving a particular analytic and methodological approach in feminist knowledge production and, on the other, as an empirical referent to feminist cross-border organising. The author proposes that the US-based and Anglophone character of the scholarship, its post-structuralist and post-colonial genealogies and the transnational paradigm's displacement of area studies can be seen as contributing to the misfit. The article concludes by arguing for theoretical reconsideration of activist practice, place and the 'posts'-post-structuralism and post-colonialism-in the study of contemporary transnational feminist activisms. This marks an effort to get beyond the binary framework of 'transnational feminism' versus 'global sisterhood' in analysing activist practices within an increasingly diverse and complex transnational feminist field.

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“…La langue est l'arme du colonisateur, mais elle constitue un territoire impensé au sein des fémi-nismes de la francophonie (Maillé, 2012). En quoi l'appartenance à la francophonie confère-t-elle une personnalité propre aux analyses féministes, ainsi qu'aux réseaux féministes et à leurs stratégies d'intervention ?…”

Section: Féminismes Francophonie Et Postcolonialismeunclassified

Approche intersectionnelle, théorie postcoloniale et questions de différence dans les féminismes anglo-saxons et francophones

Maillé

2017

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Ce texte s’intéresse aux travaux féministes récents qui ont porté sur les questions de différence, notamment aux courants de l’analyse intersectionnelle et du féminisme postcolonial. La première partie du texte propose une synthèse des textes canoniques de ces deux courants et fait état des résistances présentes au sein des féminismes de la francophonie à l’endroit d’une analyse décentrée d’un sujet-femme universel. La deuxième partie aborde le projet politique du féminisme postcolonial et montre comment ce genre d’analyse permet de rendre compte de l’influence des legs coloniaux sur les rapports de pouvoir présents au sein des féminismes de la francophonie.

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Transnational Feminisms in Francophonie Space

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism

Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism

Troubling transnational feminism(s): Theorising activist praxis

Approche intersectionnelle, théorie postcoloniale et questions de différence dans les féminismes anglo-saxons et francophones

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