Public feminism in times of crisis: from Sappho's fragments to viral hashtags

Abstract

Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. While their concept of public feminism emerges from a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager locate its foundations in history, journeying through broad swatches of time looking for connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture. In navigating the practices of public feminists, the authors also attend to the material conditions of writing histories as well as those shaping and enabling public feminist acts and protests more broadly--back cover.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Managing the public body : the archive, trauma, and silence -- 2. Mapping enclosure and disclosure -- 3. On the gendered politics of translation -- 4. The collective lyric I -- 5. The parabolic curve -- 6. Scaling loss, listing names -- Epilogue.