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Contributions by Susan Eleuterio, Andrea Glass, Rachelle Hope
Saltzman, Jack Santino, Patricia E. Sawin, and Adam Zolkover. The
2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array
of protests notable for their use of humor, puns, memes, and
graphic language. During the campaign, a video surfaced of
then-candidate Donald Trump's lewd use of the word "pussy"; in
response, many women have made the issue and the term central to
the public debate about women's bodies and their political, social,
and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centred aspects of the
protests that started with the 2017 Women's March, Pussy Hats,
Politics, and Public Protest deals with the very public nature of
that surprising, grassroots spectacle and explores the relationship
between the personal and the political in the protests.
Contributors to this edited collection use a folkloristic lens to
engage with the signs, memes, handmade pussy hats, and other items
of material culture that proliferated during the march and in
subsequent public protests. Contributors explore how this march and
others throughout history have employed the social critique
functions and features of carnival to stage public protests; how
different generations interacted and acted in the march; how
perspectives on inclusion and citizenship influenced and motivated
participation; how women-owned businesses and their dedicated
patrons interacted with the election, the march, and subsequent
protests; how popular belief affects actions and reactions,
regardless of some objective notion of truth; and how traditionally
female crafts and gifting behaviour strengthened and united those
involved in the march.
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