Feminism and Protest Camps: Entanglements, Critiques and Re-Imaginings

This groundbreaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Drawing on case studies that range from Cold War women-only peace camps to more recent mixed-gender examples from around the world, diverse contributors reflect on the recurrence of gendered, racialised and heteronormative structures in protest camps, and their potency and politics as feminist spaces. While developing an intersectional analysis of the possibilities and limitations of protest camps, this book also tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency. It will appeal to feminist theorists and activists, as well as to social movement scholars.

Catherine Eschle is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Alison Bartlett is Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia.