Event Title
Feminism in Crisis: Navigating Feminisms and Debating Meanings
Location
Davis 217
Start Date
30-4-2015 3:15 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
Women Against Feminism emerged in the summer of 2013 and became a full-blown viral campaign by June 2014. The movement has its own Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter pages and is still active today, with participants posting their own photos to spread messages explaining why feminism is inadequate, unfair, or wrong. What is this backlash campaign and why did it happen? Women Against Feminism is a microcosm of broader issues and exists in a context in which feminism is in crisis today. In order to contextualize this campaign, my research looks at the context of crisis both in feminist theory and in practice. Then, I turn to the slew of satirical response campaigns to analyze the ways in which online outlets serve as spaces in which subjects navigate discourses and debate the meaning of feminism today. Ultimately, my research demonstrates the potential and importance of new sites for debate that can reinvigorate feminist discourse and eventually create a renewed sense of feminist identity.
Faculty Sponsor
Laine Thielstrom
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1503
Feminism in Crisis: Navigating Feminisms and Debating Meanings
Davis 217
Women Against Feminism emerged in the summer of 2013 and became a full-blown viral campaign by June 2014. The movement has its own Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter pages and is still active today, with participants posting their own photos to spread messages explaining why feminism is inadequate, unfair, or wrong. What is this backlash campaign and why did it happen? Women Against Feminism is a microcosm of broader issues and exists in a context in which feminism is in crisis today. In order to contextualize this campaign, my research looks at the context of crisis both in feminist theory and in practice. Then, I turn to the slew of satirical response campaigns to analyze the ways in which online outlets serve as spaces in which subjects navigate discourses and debate the meaning of feminism today. Ultimately, my research demonstrates the potential and importance of new sites for debate that can reinvigorate feminist discourse and eventually create a renewed sense of feminist identity.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/408