Heartland and periphery: local, national and global perspectives on women's history

Hannam, June; Holden, Katherine

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“…To avoid repeating the potential misreading of the tripartite scheme of the First, Second, and Third World, we use concepts that better equip us to understand the peculiarities of post-socialist countries, namely, the concepts of the core, semi-periphery and periphery, although, as Blagojević warns (2009), the concept of the semi-periphery is subject to continuous changes. Using the concept of the semi-periphery enables us to think about the contingency and complexity of power relations as well as its fluidity andimpermanencein terms of geographical dispersion, and its heterogeneity and differences in post-socialist countries alongside the diversity and plurality of women's experiences within each of them (Hannam& Holden 2002;Cerwonka 2008;Blagojević 2009). Thus, the concept of the semi-periphery with which we address the global position of post-socialist countries connotes its essence as 'transitional' .…”

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Feminist productions “in need of saving”: From #Savemelania to #saveeuropeansemiperiphery

Perger

Milica

2018

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The paper discusses the issue of feminist knowledge production and reproduction in relation to the subject and her geo-political location. This discussion was prompted by Sofi Oksanen's letter to Melania Trump in 2017. We argue that this letter is subtly based on the power dynamics of the centre, semiperiphery and periphery, and we attempt to make these dynamics visible. Namely, Oksanen addresses M. Trump as the one who made it without the necessary critique of what 'making-it' means, while at the same time she positions her as the potential hero that can save 'us' all, where 'us' refers to the women in the semiperiphery. This heroization of M. Trump presupposes that post-socialist countries face gender (and gendered) issues at the same time as it presupposes that these issues cannot be effectively and successfully addressed by the women in the postsocialist countries themselves. Thus, Oksanen's heroization is based on a twofold process of constituting a vulnerable subject stripped of her agency, i.e. the women in post-socialist countries, and an autonomous, agentic subject for whose intervention she calls for, that is, a 'Western-ized' subject. Such gestures, which are evident in the letter, are a part of reproducing the geopolitical dynamics between the centre, semiperiphery and periphery, or, more specifically, of constructing the semi-peripheral post-socialist countries, the construct of which neglects the vigour of feminist practices, productions and movements in post-socialist countries.

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“…18 In a subsequent editorial of the Women's History Review in 2002, June Hannam and Katherine Holden apply the 'Heartland and Periphery' concepts to women's history itself and stress the fluidity and interdependence of the inner geography of the field, by re-enacting 'the metaphor of heartland and periphery' which had been used by feminist historians 'to reclaim a place for women in history, and in so doing, challenged the view that women and their concerns were peripheral to mainstream historical inquiry'. 19 Such an ontological pattern has also been at the centre of Suffrage Outside Suffragism.…”

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Suffrage Outside Suffragism

2007

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Suffragism' was a political field where non-party structures were set up to gain women's suffrage. The suffragist field outside 'suffragism' offered party and non-party structures that were not specifically suffragist although suffragists belonged to them. If 'the study of antisuffragism is particularly important as an aid towards understanding suffragism', 1 then 'suffrage outside suffragism' should be seen as a valid object of study that can offer meaningful perspectives for understanding 'suffragism'.'Suffragism' has been studied through its organisations, whereas 'suffrage outside suffragism' has never been researched as a synchronic whole where various structures had to compromise with their suffragist activists. The aim of this book is to address how suffragists 2 outside 'suffragism' (hereafter 'outside suffragists') related to their original structures, what they targeted and how they fared, in a context where 'suffragism' as a separate field offered support and inclusion on an ad hoc basis. Such activists were thus suffragists with another (party or non-party) affiliation. The interaction between the two positions (suffragist and nonsuffragist) must have been difficult to experience. The fact that most outside suffragist activists were women also emphasized the gendered reading of affiliations. For each individual, being a suffragist mostly co-existed with being a female activist, and both positions needed some acknowledgement. At the height of the suffrage campaign, in the Edwardian era, organised structures outside 'suffragism' found it difficult to integrate one or both of these issues, suffrage and female activism, and one or both types of activists, suffragists and females. The existence of 'suffragism' could hardly be ignored, especially as many outside suffragists also belonged to suffragist societies: double-affiliations were common even if they were not always formalised through membership. How double affiliations were born but also how they affected the non-suffragist structures [page1] to which activists belonged, is discussed in this book. The fluidity and transfer of activists' affiliationseven if activists experienced contradictionsmust have enriched both 'suffragism' and 'suffrage outside 'suffragism'' (hereafter 'suffrage outside'): activists could compare political practices and structures, methods, back-up support and better assess how realistic their activists' expectancies were. Conversely, the structures outside 'suffragism' had to adapt to the pressure coming from their suffragist activists and gauge how realistic their expectancies (defined by the party or the group line) were in order to keep their suffragist members, that is, broadly speaking, their women members. This book's focus on suffrage outside 'suffragism' should help us to understand both fields, 'suffragism' and 'suffrage outside', their interaction and how they related to the Edwardian social and political fabric. 'Suffragism' and 'suffrage' were an integral part of Edwardian politics. Studying 'suffrage outside suffra...

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Heartland and periphery: local, national and global perspectives on women's history

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