Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas
(Part of the SUNY Series: Praxis: Theory in Action Series)
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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 Ju rez, 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1438452454
ISBN13:9781438452456
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:383 Pages
Weight:1.56 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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