Contingent meanings, shifting practices
Grandmother to grandmother solidarity as transnational feminist praxis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12291613 |
|---|---|
| Authors | May Chazan (0000-0002-2859-6163, Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1353-1368 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Place & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0966369x.2017.1377159 |
| OpenAlex | W2753968666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
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
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |