Consumer Boycotts as Female Ethics, 1800-1990

在群众运动的支持下，消费者的抵制，特别是对食品的抵制，被认为是一种强有力的道德工具，可以通过破坏现有的道德秩序和做法来实现改变行为的目标。反种族隔离运动就是一个有力的例子，该运动从1959年开始禁止从南非进口水果，直到该政权垮台。19世纪末，抵制来自印度尼西亚的天堂鸟羽毛用于装饰帽子的运动也是一个有力的例子。很少有人知道，在19世纪早期的英国，抵制某些消费品的方法已经成功地应用了，例如对糖和咖啡的抵制。更令人吃惊的是，这两场抗议运动都是由激进的新教团体发起的，更确切地说，是由她们的女性分支发起的。这个项目从全球历史、人类学和性别研究的角度出发，特别关注于分析女性的抗议模式，并探讨她们是如何引发抵制，从而破坏连接亚洲和欧洲的现有全球经济秩序的。它认为，妇女的激进主义通过发展消费者抵制作为一种强有力的工具，在开创19世纪新形式的道德政治方面发挥了至关重要的作用。

Consumer boycotts, especially of food and supported by mass movements, are perceived to be a powerful ethical tool to achieve goals to change behavior by destabilizing existing moral orders and practices. The anti-apartheid movement which banned fruit from South Africa since 1959 until the collapse of the regime is a powerful example, the late 19th century campaign to boycott feathers from Paradise birds from Indonesia used for decorating hats another. It is less known that the method of boycotting certain consumer goods has been successfully applied already in the early 19th century in Britain, for example on sugar and coffee. What is even more striking is the fact that both protest movements emerged with radical-protestant groups, and to be more precise, from their female branches.This project, drawing from global history, anthropological as well as gender studies perspectives, focuses in particular on analyzing female modes of protest, and asks how they triggered the boycott to destabilize the existing global economic order linking Asia and Europe. It argues that women’s activism played a crucial role in inaugurating new forms of ethical politics in the 19th century by developing consumer boycott as a powerful tool.