Feminism and the Politics of Canonisation in American Political Thought 1851-1978

1851-1978年美国政治思想中的女权主义与经典化政治

• 批准号: 2587197
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2587197
• 关键词: Feminism; Politics; Canonisation; American; Political

What does it mean to tell a history of feminism in a feminist way? As an intervention in the history of feminist thought, my research will reconstruct cases that span over a century of political activism to tell a story of conservation and transformation, and of memory and forgetting. This will be centred around the women's liberation movement in the United States, between 1851 and 1978. I will theorise in new ways about the modes through which feminists have told, complicated, and obscured their own history. By drawing together strands of feminist activism, I will explore questions including: What various purposes have the memories of past figures served for activists over time? Have different groups (including working class, black, queer) used memory in contrasting ways? In doing so, my research will contribute to work conducted by feminist academics, especially black feminist academics, including Kimberly Springer, Wini Breines, Ashley D. Farmer, Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard. Despite important work conducted by these academics, the history of activists who are feminist, black, queer, and/or working class remains an understudied area. There is extensive room for new findings and synergies - room which this research will inhabit. My project will pay particular attention to reception histories and the way history has served as a resource for activists. I take reception history to mean the study of how historical figures have been memorialised and interpreted by different individuals and groups over time. In the first instance, I will build on research conducted for my MPhil and reconstruct a feminist reception history of Sojourner Truth, an activist for women's rights who emancipated herself from slavery and was prominent and active in political circles between the late 1840s and 1883. In the second instance, I will contrast Truth's reception history with reception histories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, two early women's rights activists that engaged in important historical preservation work - but who, at times, used racist caricatures in telling the history of Black women's rights activists. Moving to a period of radical feminism in the 1960s-70s, I will next consider the work of Florence Howe, a pioneer in Women's Studies who actively sought ways to publish feminist history. I will follow this with a reconstruction of the political thought and practice of The Sisterhood, a group of black women writers and artists who drew strength from feminist history to support their own activism. The section on the Sisterhood will be informed by existing research conducted for my MPhil. I will use the preceding novel excavation work as an occasion for thinking about a series of pressing issues, asking: How have feminists reckoned with an inadequate and often racist history? And what place does historical memorialisation have in contemporary political theorising and activism? The primary research method used in this thesis will be historical, including extensive archival research. This will enable me to contribute to the novel excavation work of feminist history, thereby advancing knowledge of the political priorities and practical methods of feminists and early women's rights activists. This thesis also participates in ongoing efforts by political theorists to reassess what is included in histories of the discipline of political theory itself. This approach is informed by the work of Brandon Terry and Erin Pineda on the Civil Rights Movement, Adom Getachew on Post-Colonial activism, and Kathi Weeks on the Wages for Housework movement. As all of these theorists have asked, what follows from treating activist texts as political theory? Conducted in a contemporary moment in which statues are being torn down and nations are reckoning with their collective histories, this thesis will contribute innovative arguments to ongoing conversations about how history has, could, and should be told.

以女权主义的方式讲述女权主义的历史意味着什么？作为对女权主义思想历史的干预，我的研究将重建一个世纪以上政治行动主义的案件，以讲述保护和转型的故事，以及记忆和遗忘。这将集中在1851年至1978年之间在美国的妇女解放运动。我将以新的方式理论上关于女权主义者讲述，复杂和掩盖自己的历史的模式。通过将女权主义行动主义划定在一起，我将探讨问题，包括：随着时间的流逝，哪些各种用途的过去人物的记忆是为激进主义者服务的吗？是否有不同的组（包括工人阶级，黑色，同志）以对比方式使用内存？在此过程中，我的研究将为女权主义学者，尤其是黑人女权主义学者所做的工作做出贡献，包括金伯利·斯普林格（Kimberly Springer），温妮·布雷恩斯（Wini Breines），阿什利·D·法默（Ashley D. Farmer），戴戈·戈尔（Dayo F.尽管这些学者进行了重要的工作，但女权主义者，黑人，酷儿和/或工人阶级的活动家的历史仍然是一个研究的领域。新发现和协同效应的空间很大 - 这项研究将居住的房间。我的项目将特别关注接收历史以及历史为活动家提供资源的方式。我将接待历史记录在研究中，随着时间的流逝，不同个人和群体对历史人物的纪念和解释。首先，我将基于为我的MPHIL进行的研究，并重建女性主义的寄居者真理历史，这是妇女权利的激进主义者，她们从奴隶制中解放了自己，并在1840年代和1883年后期之间在政治圈子中占据着重要性和积极的态度。从事重要历史保护工作的活动家 - 但有时他们会使用种族主义漫画来讲述黑人妇女权利活动家的历史。在1960年代至70年代，我将搬到激进的女权主义时期，接下来，我将考虑佛罗伦萨·豪（Florence Howe）的工作，佛罗伦萨·豪（Florence Howe）是妇女研究的先驱，他们积极寻求出版女性主义历史的方法。我将重建姐妹会的政治思想和实践，这是一群黑人女性作家和艺术家，他们从女权主义历史上汲取了力量，以支持自己的行动主义。有关姐妹情谊的部分将由我的Mphil进行的现有研究告知。我将使用前面的小说挖掘工作来思考一系列紧迫的问题，问：女权主义者如何估计不足和经常种族主义的历史？历史纪念活动在当代政治理论和行动主义中有什么位置？本文中使用的主要研究方法将是历史，包括广泛的档案研究。这将使我能够为女权主义历史的新颖发掘工作做出贡献，从而促进对女权主义者和早期妇女权利活动家的政治优先事项和实际方法的了解。本论文还参与了政治理论家的持续努力，以重新评估政治理论学科本身学科的历史中所包含的内容。布兰登·特里（Brandon Terry）和艾琳·派迪（Erin Pineda）在民权运动，阿多姆·盖彻（Adom Getachew）的后殖民行动主义以及凯西（Kathi）的《家务运动工资》（Kathi Weeks）的工作中为这种方法提供了信息。正如所有这些理论家所问的那样，将激进主义文本视为政治理论的影响是什么？在当代的时刻进行，在当代时刻，雕像被拆除，各国估计其集体历史，本文将为关于历史，可以和应该讲述历史如何，应该被告知的持续对话创新论据。