Narrating feminisms : what do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia?

Koobak, Redi (2018) Narrating feminisms : what do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia? Gender, Place and Culture, 25 (7). pp. 1010-1024. ISSN 0966-369X (https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1471048)

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Abstract

Drawing on interviews with women who identify as feminists in Estonia, this article explores how the stories we tell about feminism and its past influence the kind of theoretical and political work we are able to do. Zooming in on the story of the emergence of feminisms in postsocialist Estonia which has not been thoroughly researched yet, this article calls upon feminists in Estonia to reflect critically on how they conceptualize feminisms, while at the same time building a framework to think about local feminism within transnational feminist context. Starting from stories of how women became feminists in Estonia since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, I reflect on the gaps, chance encounters and tensions that my fieldwork revealed to narrate feminism differently, to bring forth new aspects of feminism in this context. In particular, I focus on two moments: the common imaginary of ‘real’ feminism as Western mass movement and the tensions between the local context and ‘Western feminism’. I complicate the narrative in the article through including interludes in between the main text to highlight how the incidents that happened outside and around the interviews shape my story of feminism in Estonia.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:86509
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    3 July 2018
    Published
    18 May 2018
    Published Online
    1 March 2018
    Accepted
    6 June 2017
    Submitted
    Notes:Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Redi Koobak (2018) Narrating feminisms: what do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia?, Gender, Place & Culture, 25:7, 1010-1024, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1471048
    Subjects:Social Sciences
    Political Science
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Journalism
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:17 Aug 2023 09:24
    Last modified:09 Apr 2024 04:13
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86509
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