Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space
Elizabeth Currans
Abstract
This book examines how women’s public demonstrations claim and transform public space. Focusing on seven examples--Take Back the Night Marches, Dyke Marches, SlutWalks, Women in Black Vigils, CODEPINK direct actions, the March for Women’s Lives, and the Million Mom March--the book explores the ways that women use gender to physically and affective transform public space, through a process of “holding space” for each other. Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers is organized into three sections addressing key foci of feminist public demonstration: sexuality, war and militarism, ... More
Keywords: public demonstrations, feminist, women, public space, sexuality, citizenship, militarism, holding space
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252041259 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252041259.001.0001 |
