The Women’s March on London: Judith Butler, John Berger, Virginia Woolf and Intersectionality

Authors

  • Maggie Humm University of East London

Abstract

The Women’s March on London: Judith Butler, John Berger, Virginia Woolf and Intersectionality

Abstract

The paper brings together three thinkers; Judith Butler, John Berger and Virginia Woolf, not often considered together, to examine how their ideas about assemblies/demonstrations, democracy and feminism apply to the Women’s March on London January 21st 2017.

Intersecting these thinkers’ ideas, drawn from psychoanalytic, feminist and cultural analyses, helps to explain key features of the March, for example its careful construction of symbols and intersectional appeal.

The paper concludes that the March bore features of older feminism but offered a newer feminism in its uses of social media and intersectional approach.

Author Biography

  • Maggie Humm, University of East London

    Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies,

    School of Arts and Digital Industries

    University of East London

References

https://unphilosophe.com/2016/12/19/interview-with-judith-butler-the-freedom-of-assembly-assumes-that-bodies-can-assemble/

http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3025-trump-fascism-and-the-construction-of-the-people-an-interview-with-judith-butler

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1968/no034/berger.htm

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1332581573479599/

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Crenshaw, Kimberlé (1989). ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: a Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,’ University of Chicago Legal Forum, 14, 538-54.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé (1991). ‘Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity, Politics and Violence Against Women of Color,’ Stanford Law Review, 43 (6) 1241-99.

Davis, Kathy (2008). ‘Intersectionality as a Buzzword,’ Feminist Theory, 9:1, 67-85.

Woolf, Virginia (1977). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume I 1915-1919. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell, London: Hogarth Press.

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Published

2017-05-01

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017)

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