Protest embodied

Enacting the Goal, Resisting the Clothing of the State

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ID6423650
AuthorsKaren Beckwith (0000-0002-7710-3302, Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume8
Issue2
Pages385-405
Publication date2025-02-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Politics and Gender (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2515-1088 • E-ISSN: 2515-1096
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/25151088y2025d000000076
OpenAlexW4407568235
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited35

This article identifies protests by organized women concerning state-imposed clothing requirements and bans. Relying on secondary sources, government reports, and newspaper accounts, the article analyzes women’s embodiment of protest in three mass actions around the globe: protests against mandatory hijab wearing in Iran, and global “Slut Walks” and “Take Back/Reclaim the Night” marches. The article locates these campaigns in women’s movement activism and shows how activist women, protesting for their goals, embody and hence achieve their goals in these campaigns. In this regard, such protests involve more than vestments: these protests assert women’s citizenship equality with men and demonstrate that achieving a goal that challenges the state is possible. The article concludes with speculations about state responses to women’s embodied protest

Clothing · Embodied cognition · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Law · Artificial Intelligence

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