"Traveling feminisms? Women of the extreme right in Europe"
Social movements are becoming as globalized as economies. Feminism has long been transnational. Current versions, especially in the east of Europe, are striking and surprising for their xenophobia and social conservatism. How do social movements and ideals "circulate" and seem to travel? How does such travel contribute to extremism? How is it disrupting the longstanding contrasts between left and right, progressivism and conservatism in Europe.
Susan Gal, Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College, is presently doing research on the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, language and gender, and especially the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of political transformation in contemporary eastern Europe and post socialism generally. Her work focuses as well on the construction of gender and discourses of reproduction.
Date: February 27, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM
Date: February 27, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM