Gender and the Complexities of Freedom

Abstract

Freedom is an aspirational ideal, but it is also complex, defined as both an individual and a collective phenomenon, a condition and an action, a force for equality and a driver of inequality. These complexities double when it comes to the relationship between gender and freedom, as freedom has been used to describe both gender liberation and masculine supremacy, both the power to overthrow patriarchal oppression and the power that justifies patriarchal violence. Further, the entanglement of feminist freedom dreams with white supremacy, settler colonialism, and imperial disregard alert us to the underside of aspirations to overcome the injustice of the present. Each of these papers sits with the complexities of gender and freedom, drawing on different historical moments, theoretical perspectives, and genres of feminist expression to ask whether it is possible to discern emancipatory visions that do not further entrench the unfreedom of others and ourselves.

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