Unravelling anti-feminism: On the domestication of resistance

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dc.contributor.authorThomas, Kylie
dc.contributor.funderKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappenen
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-09T14:46:01Z
dc.date.available2023-02-09T14:46:01Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-30
dc.date.updated2023-02-08T22:13:28Z
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a critique of neoliberal feminism and argues for nuanced and critical approaches to the question of what constitutes feminist resistance. It focuses on visual artist Billie Zangewa's creative practice and positions it within the longer history of how women have made use of traditional crafts, such as quilting and embroidery, as a means of expression and as a form of resistance. It positions Zangewa's work alongside that of some of her feminist contemporaries who have also used thread and cloth in their work to reveal how the political is woven through the fabric of everyday life. I argue that in order to understand why Zangewa's seemingly mundane, even bourgeois practice, has been framed and taken up as a form of feminist resistance, it is necessary to read her work through a historical lens that takes colonial dispossession and the brutal history of violence in Southern Africa into account. My readings of Zangewa's work acknowledge the significance of the artist's affirmation of care and self-love as resistance, as much as they point to the limits of a politics that valorises (unpaid) domestic work and fails to address the structural violence of capitalism.en
dc.description.sponsorshipKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW Academy Institutes Fund)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid20en
dc.identifier.citationThomas, K. (2022) 'Unravelling anti-feminism: On the domestication of resistance', Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 7(2), 20 (8pp). doi: 10.20897/jcasc/12761en
dc.identifier.doi10.20897/jcasc/12761en
dc.identifier.endpage8en
dc.identifier.issn2589-1316
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Cultural Analysis and Social Changeen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14200
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherLectito B.V.en
dc.rights© 2022, the Author and Licensed by Lectito BV, Netherlands. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectAnti-feminismen
dc.subjectAfricaen
dc.subjectResistanceen
dc.subjectVisual arten
dc.subjectVisual activismen
dc.titleUnravelling anti-feminism: On the domestication of resistanceen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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