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Salem, Sara (2018) On transnational feminist solidarity : the case of Angela Davis in Egypt. Signs : Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 43 (2). pp. 245-267. doi:10.1086/693535 ISSN 0097-9740.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/693535
Abstract
In the early 1970s, Angela Davis visited Egypt, a trip she wrote about in her book Women, Culture, and Politics. This article uses Davis’s trip as a lens through which to approach the question of transnational feminist solidarity through the eyes of multiple generations of Egyptian feminists. It argues that the particular conditions in Egypt in the 1950s through to 1970s allowed for new international forms of solidarity focused on material conditions. This enabled Egyptian feminists to forge solidarity with women across the globe, Angela Davis included, who located gender oppression within the same structures, namely capitalism and imperialism. This type of solidarity was made possible by the particular political and economic context of the 1950s–1970s, which differed radically from the eras preceding and following it, as well as the analysis that came out of this context, including a strong focus on capitalism and imperialism. Indeed the decline of this type of analysis can be located in the changes that occurred in Egypt in the 1970s and 1980s—following the shift to an open-market economy—that led to a decline in material analysis. This shift has had major effects on the ways in which Egyptian feminists imagined and put into practice forms of transnational feminist solidarity. By looking at Davis’s encounter with Egyptian feminists, this article demonstrates how practices that were built on a material analysis of gender allowed for solidarity to be created by making differences productive rather than merely divisive.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Feminism -- Egypt, Feminism -- International cooperation | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Signs : Journal of Women in Culture and Society | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0097-9740 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 43 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 245-267 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/693535 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 November 2019 | ||||||
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