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Feminist Activists on Brexit
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Feminist Activists on Brexit

From the Political to the Personal

Sue Cohen|Margaret Page
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9781800434219
30 March 2021
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30 March 2021
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Across an ever-changing political landscape, and in the midst of Brexit developments, this edited collection draws our attention to women's participation in transformative democratic processes, and captures how UK women were made 'other' in the political environment created by Brexit. 

Chronicling the work of diverse feminist activists connected to women’s equality organisations, grassroots networks and migrant communities who between them strove to further intersectional equality, and ensure women’s voices were heard across the UK during the Brexit campaign, the first section of this book highlights the impact of populist discourses on subjective identities and their place in public and political life. Through reflective conversation, autobiographical writing and poetic pieces, the authors transform their experiences of being 'othered', showcasing instead a new found community and collective agency across intersections of identity. In the second section, researchers and activists analyse how the socio-economic, political and legal changes unleashed by Brexit are undermining women's equality in the UK. Considering how to defend feminist concerns when facing populist political leadership, the authors make the case for constitutional reform which will enable direct female participation in the democratic process. Looking ahead to the post Brexit landscape, and the unknowable future let loose by Covid-19, the contributors offer us a glimpse of the world they are striving to create.

Introduction: Feminist Resistance in a Brexit Environment; Sue Cohen and Margaret Page Section 1: From the political to the personal and back again: reclaiming belonging.  Chapter 1. How Brexit is Changing Women’s Lives; Sue Cohen and Margaret Page  Chapter 2. Pivotal Moments in Feminizing Democracy: From the person to the political; Sue Cohen and Margaret Page 2.a: Extracts from the Journal of a Struggling Activist; Sue Cohen  2.b: Resistance in a Landscape of Othering; Margaret Page  Chapter 3. From the Political to the Personal in An Age of Uncertainty: Assault on self, identity, family, community, and nationhood; Susanna Giullari, Negat Hussein, Moestak Hussein, L., Tove Samzelius, Sue Cohen.  Chapter 4. Post-Brexit haiku: Countering prejudice with sticks-in –the-spokes and Danish pastries; Jane Speedy. Section 2: Feminising Democracy in Westminster and Devolved Nations  Chapter 5. Inspiring Change: Women Organising Across the Devolved Nations; Natasha Davies and Hade Turkmen (Chwarae Teg Wales). Lyn Carvill, (Women’s Budget Group Northern Ireland); Emma Ritch (Engender Scotland) and Sue Cohen.  Chapter 6. Feminists mobilising against Brexit in Westminster; Jenna Norman  Chapter 7. Risky Futures: Women in the British labour market; Susan Milner  Chapter 8. Towards Feminist Democracy: Populist forces and feminist activism; Diane Bunyan, Jackie Longworth, Su Maddock and Margaret Page.  Chapter 9. Everything has Changed and Nothing has Changed: Glimpses of utopian and dystopian futures; Sue Cohen and Margaret Page.

    The book is an invitation to feminists and progressive networks to re-engage with democratic institutions, challenge misogynistic and racist political cultures, and shape a genuinely inclusive, participatory democracy. Feminist Activists on Brexit is quite simply an essential read for anyone who cares about democratic politics in Britain today.

    - Professor Yvonne Galligan, Technological University Dublin

    I came away with optimism in the power of women, the importance of standing together, united by our commonalities and taking comfort in our diversity.

    - Leandra Box, Race Equality Foundation

    A highly needed and very original contribution to our understanding of intersectional feminist, women’s and migrant struggles against Brexit in the UK.

    - Dr Kateřina Vráblíková, University of Bath

    Feminist Activists on Brexit is unique in bringing together the experiences and reflections of feminist activists and academics to bear on the single most monumental constitutional change in contemporary British politics.

    - Dr Sue Ledwith, The Global Labour University
    Sue Cohen is a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK. Sue has been involved in participatory grassroots actions and co-produced research combatting poverty and discrimination at a local, national and European level. 

    Margaret Page is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, UK. She is a feminist activist, developing artist and writer.