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Introduction: feminism, in theory -- The future of an ideal: consciousness and the radical vision of women's liberation -- The activist unconscious: feminism and psychoanalysis -- The feminist body politic: sexuality's domestic incarnation -- The feminist abject: death, fiction, and theory -- Obstructive behavior: dykes in the mainstream of feminist theory -- Conclusion: left justified

Best all-around : Harriet Tubman -- Most loyal : Dede Mirabal -- Most distinguishable voice : Coretta Scott King -- Most determined : Grace Lee Boggs -- Biggest dreamer : Victoria Woodhull -- Earth's best friend : Wangari Maathai -- Most caring : Lizzy Lind -- Most proud : Barbara Gittings -- Best team : Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Yearbook editor : Amelia Jenks Bloomer -- Best sense of humor : Wilma Mankiller -- Most likely to lead a protest : Mother Jones.

Foreword: So what? --Preface --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The what and why of activist theology --1.The darkness of Holy Saturday: rupturing complacency and becoming transformation --2.Turning tables in the temple: disruption --3.The struggle is real --4.The Psalmist sings: the poetry of protest --5.Following the ways of Jesus: enacting radical social change --6.Old wine in new wineskins: reframing theology as activism --7.Economic supremacy: when class ascendency doesn't work in your favor --8.Activist theology's resilience: a year after Charlottesville --Coda: Poetry by Ree Belle --Further reading.

Introduction -- Women and activism -- Women in the media -- Image, ability, and health -- Fighting for women : and against violence -- Fighting for political and economic rights -- Fighting for women globally -- Starting at home -- Glossary -- For more information -- For further reading -- Bibliography -- Index

"Activist Identity Development of Transgender Social Justice Activists and Educators introduces an anti-oppressive, critical and intersectional approach to social justice activism and education, and adult education for social change. This book examines how state governments, laws, policies, institutions, and systems of dominant hegemonic ideologies, such as education systems, the legal systems, and their gatekeepers influence the social position and epistemic agency of transgender and gender non-conforming people (TGNC), therefore shaping their social justice activist and educator identity development. The research was conducted with eight TGNC social justice activists and educators from eight different countries, who were at the time in leadership positions in organizations working on the advancement of LGBTQI human rights. This volume seeks not only to understand and interpret power structures, power relations and inequalities in society which determine social positionality of trans activists and influence the formation and development of their activist identity, but also to challenge them by raising critical consciousness, questioning dominant cultural, political, and social domains which determine knowledge production. It advocates for a trans-affirming, intersectional approach to educational provision, theory, and research"--