{"product_id":"feeling-feminism-activism-affect-and-canadas-second-wave-hardback-9780774866507","title":"Feeling Feminism; Activism, Affect, and Canada's Second Wave (Hardback) 9780774866507","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFeeling Feminism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eActivism, Affect, and Canada's Second Wave\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLara Campbell (Edited by), Michael Dawson (Edited by), Catherine Gidney (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774866507\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 9 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e...a fascinating collection of essays about second-wave feminist activism in Canada\u003c\/p\u003e - Nancy Janovicek. University of Calgary (Social History\/Histoire Sociale.) To call this book thought-provoking is a profound understatement. - Phyllis Reeve (The British Columbia Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic video stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force underlying feminist activism. They are at play in the experiences of injustice, exclusion, caring, and suffering that have fed women's commitment to building and sustaining a new world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeeling Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e examines the ways in which emotions such as anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness influenced second-wave feminis action and theorizing across Canada. Drawing on affect theory to convey the passion, sense of possibility, and collective political commitment that have characterized feminism, the contributors to this volume reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInsights from gender and women's studies, cultural and literary theory, social psychology, and sociology infuse \u003cem\u003eFeeling Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e as the contributors explore how emotions shaped and nourished feminist activism. More generally, they demonstrate the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions \/ \u003cem\u003eLara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women's Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada \/ \u003cem\u003eWhitney Wood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 The Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis \/ \u003cem\u003eCheryl Krasnick Warsh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia \/ \u003cem\u003eSarah A. Nickel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 \"Feeling My Way\": Women's Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians \/ \u003cem\u003eKevin Brushett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests \/ \u003cem\u003ePatrizia Gentile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 \"Jesus Is Not Part of This Collective\": Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood \/ \u003cem\u003eLynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing \/ \u003cem\u003eLiz Millward\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminism, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion \/ \u003cem\u003eEryk Martin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s \u003ci\u003eKinesis \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003cem\u003eEmma McKenna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization \/ \u003cem\u003eFunké Aladejebi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 \"Briser le mur du silence\": Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists' Conference in Quebec \/ \u003cem\u003eJosette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University \/ \u003cem\u003eMatthew Fesnak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52531137872152,"sku":"9780774866507","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/feeling-feminism-activism-affect-and-canadas-second-wave-hardback-9780774866507","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}