Aesthetics of South African Women's Embodied Activism: Staging Complicity
Aesthetics of South African Women's Embodied Activism: Staging Complicity
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南非女性具体行动主义的美学：上演共谋
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10.1080/10486801.2018.1476350
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2018
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0.3
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Hutchison Y
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Hutchison Y
女权主义在非洲是一个复杂的主题，非洲的性别研究学者与北美和欧洲的性别研究学者之间的关系一直很紧张，原因是“政治环境和种族主义经历的差异，以及对女权主义意识形态和不同政治联盟和联盟的解释”。1许多非洲妇女更喜欢谈论“非洲女权主义”2或“非洲女权主义”，3它突出了殖民主义在非洲妇女目前经历的压迫中留下的具体遗产。4然而，Gwendolyn Mikell 5指出，非洲妇女特别关切下列问题：政治主权、国家经济和国内文化、生产和生殖、母性、儿童死亡率、婚姻和彩礼、女性割礼、一夫多妻制、受教育机会以及地方和全球价值观和特性之间的冲突。与任何意识形态一样，非洲女权主义根据其如何在特定环境的细节中制定和谈判而产生细微差别。由于非洲有58个国家、2000多种语言和更多的文化，对非洲女权主义的态度因背景而异。在这篇文章中，我将重点讲述两位1994年后的南非女艺术家如何协商她们对自己的性别、文化和身份的理解，以超越简·班尼特和夏曼·佩雷拉所说的“被围困的、不断缩小的空间……”“性别与发展”或“赋权”。6.
Feminism is a complex subject in Africa, and the relationship between gender studies scholars based in Africa and those based in North America and Europe has been strained because of ‘the differences in political environments and experiences of racism as well as interpretations of feminist ideologies and different political alliances and coalitions’. 1 Many African women prefer to speak of ‘African feminism’2 or ‘Africana womanism’, 3 which highlights the specific legacies of colonialism in the current oppressions experienced by Africana women. 4However, Gwendolyn Mikell 5 identifies the following issues as being of particular concern to women in Africa: political sovereignty, their nation’s economies and domestic cultures, production and reproduction, motherhood, child mortality, marriage and bride-price, female circumcision, polygamy, access to education, and the clash between local and global values and identities. Like any ideology, African feminism is nuanced according to how it is formulated and negotiated within the details of a particular environment. As there are 58 countries, over 2000 languages and many more cultures, approaches to African feminisms differ according to context. For the purposes of this article, I am going to focus on how two South African women artists post-1994 are negotiating their understandings of their own sexualities, cultures, and identities in order to transcend what Jane Bennett and Charmaine Pereira call ‘the beleaguered, and ever narrowing, spaces... of “gender and development” or “empowerment”’. 6