Activism and Protest

Books

• Blair, K. L., & Nickoson, L. (Eds.) (2018). Composing feminist interventions: Activism, engagement, praxis. University Press of Colorado. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/feminist/
• Breen, M. F. (2023). Pride and persistence: Stories of queer activism. Second Story Press. https://bookshop.org/p/books/pride-and-persistence-stories-of-queer-activism-mary-fairhurst-breen/19848792?ean=9781772603491
• Crossley, A. D. (2017). Finding feminism: Millennial activists and the unfinished gender revolution. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479884094/finding-feminism/
• Feldman, R. M., & Stall, S. (2004). The dignity of resistance: Women residents’ activism in Chicago public housing. Cambridge University Press. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dignity-of-resistance-women-residents-activism-in-chicago-public-housing-roberta-m-feldman/12515561?ean=9780521596862
• Garlough, C. (2013). Desi divas: Political activism in South Asian American cultural performances. University Press of Mississippi. https://www.ubcpress.ca/desi-divas
• Gieseler, C. (2019). The voices of #MeToo: From grassroots activism to a viral roar. Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538128015/The-Voices-of-#MeToo-From-Grassroots-Activism-to-a-Viral-Roar
• Mukhopadhyay, S., & Harding K. (Eds.) (2017). Nasty women: Feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump’s America. Picador. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250155504/nastywomen
• Naples, N. A. (2013). Grassroots warriors: Activist mothering, community work, and the war on poverty. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Grassroots-Warriors-Activist-Mothering-Community-Work-and-the-War-on/Naples/p/book/9780415910255
• Newsom, V. A. (2022). Contained empowerment and the liminal nature of feminisms and activisms. Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793612502/Contained-Empowerment-and-the-Liminal-Nature-of-Feminisms-and-Activisms
• Reger, J. (Ed.). (2019). Nevertheless, they persisted: Feminisms and continued resistance in the U.S. women’s movement. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Nevertheless-They-Persisted-Feminisms-and-Continued-Resistance-in-the/Reger/p/book/9781138306035
• Ricciutelli, L., Miles, A., & McFadden, M. H. (Eds.). (2004). Feminist politics, activism and vision: Local and global challenges. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.inanna.ca/product/feminist-politics-activism-and-vision-local-and-global-chall/
• Rose, L., & Bartoli, T. M. (2021). Pink hats and ballots: An ecofeminist analysis of women’s political activism in the age of Trump, coronavirus, and Black Lives Matter. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793626554/Pink-Hats-and-Ballots-An-Ecofeminist-Analysis-of-Women%27s-Political-Activism-in-the-Age-of-Trump-Coronavirus-and-Black-Lives-Matter
• Roy, C. (2004). The Raging Grannies: Wild hats, cheeky songs, and witty actions for a better world. Black Rose Books. https://www.abebooks.com/9781551642406/Raging-Grannies-Wild-Hats-Cheeky-1551642409/plp
• Serano, J. (2013). Excluded: Making feminist and queer movements more inclusive. Seal Press. https://www.juliaserano.com/excluded.html
• Shakes, N. M. (2023). Women’s activist theatre in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, race, and performance space. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087370
• Sheridan-Rabideau, M. P. (2008). Girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activism in the GirlZone. State University of New York Press. https://sunypress.edu/Books/G/Girls-Feminism-and-Grassroots-Literacies2
• Shockley, M. T. (2018). Creating a progressive commonwealth: Women activists, feminism, and the politics of social change in Virginia, 1970s-2000s. Louisiana State University Press. https://lsupress.org/9780807169360/creating-a-progressive-commonwealth/
• Sliwinska, B. (Ed). (2021). Feminist visual activism and the body. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Feminist-Visual-Activism-and-the-Body/Sliwinska/p/book/9780367693374
• Stephen, L., & Speed, S. (Eds.). (2021). Indigenous women and violence: Feminist activist research in heightened states of injustice. University of Arizona Press. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/indigenous-women-and-violence
• Weldon, S. L. (2011). When protest makes policy: How social movements represent disadvantaged groups. University of Michigan Press. https://press.umich.edu/Books/W/When-Protest-Makes-Policy2

Chapters

• Cooper, B. (2021). Digital demands toward decolonial feminist futures. In N. A. Hewitt & A. M. Valk (Eds.), A Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed. (pp. 389-404). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119522690.ch23
• Gleeson, J. (2018). SlutWalk Melbourne: Negotiating feminisms and organising activists. In C. Dale & R. Overell (Eds.), Orienting Feminism (pp. 95-112). Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-70660-3
• Moraro, P. (2023). The civility of the privileged. In D. Bridges, C. Lewis, E. Wulff, C. Litchfield, & L. Bamberry (Eds.), Gender, feminist, and queer studies (pp. 203-215). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Feminist-and-Queer-Studies-Power-Privilege-and-Inequality-in-a/Bridges-Lewis-Wulff-Litchfield-Bamberry/p/book/9781032328294
• Shuster, R. (2015). Beyond defense: considering next steps for bisexual liberation. In L. Ka’ahumanu & L. Hutchins (Eds.), Bi any other name (pp. 306-314). Riverdale Ave Books. https://www.abebooks.com/9781555831745/Name-Bisexual-People-Speak-Out-1555831745/plp
• Wright, L. (2022). Mayday: Rethinking reproductive justice protests utilizing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In B. W. Capo & L. Lazzari (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of reproductive justice and literature (pp. 621-637). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99530-0
• Zabyelina, Y., & Ivashkiv, R. (2017). Pussy Riot and the politics of resistance in contemporary Russia. In Oxford research encyclopedia of criminology. www.oxfordre.com/criminology/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-208.

Academic Articles

• Aviram, H., & Leachman, G. (2015). The future of polyamorous marriage: Lessons from the marriage equality struggle. Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, 38(2), 269-336. https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1992&context=faculty_scholarship
• Caesar, T, Melonas, D., & Jones, T. (2022). Mothering dead bodies: Black maternal necropolitics. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 21(2), 512-537. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/871067
• Cruz, M. (2023). ‘a revolt within a revolt’: feminist political ideas in Chile’s social uprising. Feminist Review, 135(1), 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231186974
• Feminist Africa, issue 22, Feminists Organising – Strategy, Voice, Power. 2017. https://feministafrica.net/feminist-africa-issue-22-2017-feminists-organising-strategy-voice-power/
• McCaffrey, B. (2023). Technologies of protest in Irish abortion activism. Feminist Anthropology, 4(1),115-131. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12116
• Mrovlje, M., & Kirkpatrick, J. (2023). Beauvoir and Lorde confront the honorary man trope: Toward a feminist theory of political resistance. Women’s Studies International Forum, 101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102839.
• Roper, D., & Wint, T. (2020). The Tambourine Army: Sonic disruptions and the politics of respectability. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 24(2), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604466
• Watters, J. (2017). Pink hats and Black fists: The role of women in the Black Lives Matter Movement. William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, 24(1), 199-207. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&context=wmjowl

Popular Press

• Ahn, A. (2022, December 3). Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that’s swept South Korea. NPR. www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1135162927/women-feminism-south-korea-sexism-protest-haeil-yoon
• Allam, N. (2018, August 13). Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard? The Conversation. www.theconversation.com/saudi-women-can-drive-but-are-their-voices-being-heard-99183
• Baskin, L. (2022, August 29). Black women resisting racial violence: A CBFS interview. Black Perspectives. www.aaihs.org/black-women-resisting-racial-violence-a-cbfs-interview
• Chotiner, I. (2022, November 2). Iranian feminism and “all these different kinds of veils”. The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/iranian-feminism-and-all-these-different-kinds-of-veils
• Diaz, J. (2021, March 15). Thousands march in Australia as another #MeToo wave hits the country. NPR. www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977340049/thousands-march-in-australia-as-another-metoo-wave-hits-the-country
• Heathcote, G. (2020, August 19). Protesting the preamble: the UN Security Council and the dilution of feminist activism. Open Global Rights. www.openglobalrights.org/protesting-the-preamble-the-un-security-council-and-the-dilution-of-feminist-activism/
• Kurian, A. (2020, February 24). Indian women protest new citizenship laws, joining a global ‘fourth wave’ feminist movement. The Conversation. www.theconversation.com/indian-women-protest-new-citizenship-laws-joining-a-global-fourth-wave-feminist-movement-129602
• McNeal, S. (2023, November 14). Raquel Willis on what being an activist really means. Glamour. www.glamour.com/story/raquel-willis-on-what-being-an-activist-really-means
• Pauly, M. (2020, October 26). A radical new plan for MeToo turns away from “law and order” feminism. Mother Jones. www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/survivors-agenda-me-too-racial-justice/
• Rumberger, A. (2023). Abortion in NYC: How to fight the right. Lux Magazine. www.lux-magazine.com/article/progressive-anti-abortion-uprising/
• Students protest after Texas University President cancels campus drag show. (2023, March 22). Insight Into Diversity. www.insightintodiversity.com/students-protest-after-texas-university-president-cancels-campus-drag-show/

Historical Perspectives

• Books
  • Cahill, C. D. (2020). Recasting the vote: How women of color transformed the suffrage movement. The University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469659329/recasting-the-vote/
  • Carroll, T. W. (2015). Mobilizing New York: AIDS, antipoverty, and feminist activism. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469619880/mobilizing-new-york/
  • Hobson, E. K. (2016). Lavender and red: Liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520279063/lavender-and-red
  • Khan, M. (2023). Young and restless: The girls who sparked America’s revolutions. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673432/young-and-restless-by-mattie-kahn/
  • Laughlin, K. A., & Castledine, J. L. (Eds.). (2011). Breaking the wave: Women, their organizations, and feminism, 1945-1985. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Breaking-the-Wave-Women-Their-Organizations-and-Feminism-1945-1985/Laughlin-Castledine/p/book/9780415874007
  • Moten, C. M. (2023). Continually working: Black women, community intellectualism, and economic justice in postwar Milwaukee. Vanderbilt University Press. https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826505576/continually-working/
  • Murphy, R. P. (2016). Deregulating desire: Flight attendant activism, family politics, and workplace justice. Temple University Press. https://tupress.temple.edu/books/deregulating-desire
• Chapters
  • Enke, F. (2003). Taking over domestic space: The battered women’s movement and public protest. In V. Gosse & R. Moser (Eds.), The world the sixties made: Politics and culture in recent America (pp. 162-190). Temple University Press. https://tupress.temple.edu/books/the-world-the-sixties-made
  • Gidlow, L. (2020). Woman suffrage, women’s votes. In N. A. Hewitt & A. M. Valk (Eds.), A companion to American women’s history (2nd ed.) (pp. 193-208). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/A+Companion+to+American+Women%27s+History%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119522652
  • Haddad, C. (2021). Second-Wave Arab American feminist activism. In M. W. Suleiman, S. Joseph, & L. Cainkar (Eds.), Arab American women: Representation and refusal (pp. 247-281). Syracuse University Press. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/3462/arab-american-women/
  • Political activism: a brief history. In L. Ka’ahumanu & L. Hutchins (Eds.), Bi any other name (pp. 400-408). Riverdale Ave. Books. https://www.abebooks.com/9781555831745/Name-Bisexual-People-Speak-Out-1555831745/plp
  • Sueyoshi, A. (2016). Breathing fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American activism in queer history. In M. E. Springate (Ed.), LGBTQ America: A theme study of lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer history. National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/articles/lgbtqtheme-asianpacific.htm.
  • Valk, A. M. (2020). Rethinking feminist movements after World War II. In N. A. Hewitt & A. M. Valk (Eds.), A companion to American women’s history (2nd ed.) (pp. 353-371). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/A+Companion+to+American+Women%27s+History%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119522652
• Article
  • Arfini, E. A. G. (2021). July 4, 1980: The first trans protest in Italy. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 8(2), 199-206. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8890579