Contingent meanings, shifting practices

Grandmother to grandmother solidarity as transnational feminist praxis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12291613
AutoresMay Chazan (0000-0002-2859-6163, Trent University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen26
Número10
Páginas1353-1368
Fecha de publicación2017-09-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender Place & Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0966369x.2017.1377159
OpenAlexW2753968666
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas30

While ‘solidarity’ is frequently evoked in transnational feminisms, it is less clear how this concept is understood and practiced among different actors in different contexts. This article addresses this limitation by investigating a movement of some 10,000 older Canadian women who, drawing on longstanding commitments to feminist advocacy, have mobilized over the past decade in solidarity with ‘grandmothers’ impacted by AIDS in southern Africa. The article investigates one pivotal development within this movement as an entry point to consider the productive friction surrounding transnational feminist practice more broadly: the splintering of the campaign in 2011 into separate advocacy and fundraising networks. Drawing on archival materials and interviews, the analysis depicts how changing perspectives on advocacy within the movement, which became most evident in this splintering, provide critical insights into thinking about the complexities of ‘solidarity’ as transnational feminist praxis. In particular, it extends existing scholarship on solidarity-building, suggesting that theorizing ‘solidarity’ in this context requires an understanding of its contingent practices. It also draws on older Canadian women’s reflections to challenge notions that ‘Second Wavers’ do not adequately grapple with how differences in power and privilege shape and inform their movements

Context (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Praxis · Privilege (computing · Scholarship · Social movement · Sociology · Solidarity · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law