Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women. The essays are based on the textual analysis of interviews, oral histories, ethnography, video storytelling, and theater. The contributors come from many disciplinary backgrounds, including theater, history, literature, sociology, feminist studies, and cultural studies. The topics range from the underground library movement in Cuba, femicide in Juárez, community radio in Venezuela, video archives in Colombia, exiled feminists in Canada, memory activism in Argentina, sex worker activists in Brazil, rural feminists in Nicaragua, to domestic violence organizations for Latina immigrants in Texas. Each essay addresses two themes: telling stories and taking risks. The authors understand women activists across the Americas as storytellers who, along with the authors themselves, work to fill the Latin American and Caribbean studies archives with histories of resistance. In addition to sharing the activists’ stories, the contributors weave in discussions of scholarly risk taking to speak to the challenges and importance of elevating the storytellers and their histories.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword: The Thing about Taking Risks
Margaret Randall
Introduction: Research, Risk, and Activism: Feminists’ Stories of Social Justice
Julie Shayne and Kristy Leissle
Del Cielo los Vieron Llegar/From the Sky They Saw Them Coming
Nora Patrich
Part 1. Texts, Stories, and Activism
Introduction to Part 1: Texts, Stories, and Activism
Jessica Monteiro Manfredi
1. Writing and Activism
Carmen Rodríguez
2. Absence in Memories: Reading Stories of Survival in Argentina
Mahala Lettvin
3. Chilean Exiles and Their Feminist Stories
Julie Shayne
4. Navigating the Cuban Ideological Divide: Research on the Independent Libraries Movement
Marisela Fleites-Lear
Part 2. Performed Stories of Social Justice
Introduction to Part 2: Performed Stories of Social Justice
Jessica Monteiro Manfredi
5. We Also Built the City of Medellín:
Deplazadas’ Family Albums as Feminist Archival Activism
Tamera Marko
6. Who Owns the Archive? Community Media in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez
Robin Garcia
7. Echoes of Injustice: Performative Activism and the Femicide Plaguing Ciudad Juárez
Christina Marín
Part 3. Activist Stories from the Grassroots
Introduction to Part 3: Activist Stories from the Grassroots
Julie Shayne
8. Feminist Tensions: Race, Sex Work, and Women’s Activism in Bahia
Erica Lorraine Williams
9. Latina Battered Immigrants, Citizenship, and Inequalities: Reflections on Activist Research
Roberta Villalón
10. Rural Feminism and Revolution in Nicaragua: Voices of the
Compañeras
Shelly Grabe
Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity and Privilege
Julie Shayne and Kristy Lessle
Afterword: Mother’s Day
Julie Shayne
Contributors
Index
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Julie Shayne is Principal Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell and Affiliate Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington Seattle. She is the author of
They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism and
The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba.
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