Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Description

Reviews the historiography of the term ※feminism§ and perspectives and activism associated with the term.
Introduces feminisms for their value in understanding complex dynamics of domination and power from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Explains differences among self-identified feminists as thinkers and activists historically and in the contemporary moment.
Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of feminisms as complex and contested field of theories and practices
Discusses contemporary work by Brittney Cooper, Sarah Ahmed, Nevedita Menon, and Veronica Gago to set up questions about how/why each contemporary author identifies as a feminist and what they describe as feminism.
Shows how integral feminisms have become to academic, institutional and public understandings of historical and contemporary events and dynamics.