AHA Session 271
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Murray Hill West (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Karen Buenavista Hanna, Connecticut College
Papers:
Comment:
Katherine Marie Marino, University of California, Los Angeles
Session Abstract
This panel centers women in revolution-making and seeks to disrupt common and persistent narratives of revolution and feminism: that militant leaders and revolutionary intellectuals are universally male, that revolution-making occurs solely on the battlefield; that feminism in the Global North is ethnocentric; and that feminism in the Global South is a Western import. Drawing on oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, archival records, and personal letters, the panel features presentations about the valuable role of women as educators in the Palestinian Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s; the importance of revolutionary internationalism in the 1960s establishment of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the US-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the making of Black Revolutionary Feminism through the perspectives of leaders Gwen Patton and Frances Beal; the solidarity efforts of Japanese militant Shigenobu Fusako, a woman who led the Japanese Red Army (JRA) from its base in Lebanon in support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the 1970s and 1980s; and lastly, the transnational revolutionary feminist exchanges and theory-production between women in the United States and in the Philippine underground who were grappling with the “woman question” within their shared movement against dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. in the 1980s. The papers offer striking examples of internationalist solidarity as revolutionary praxis from multiple sites on the globe. The panelists hope that these examples will inspire discussion with the audience that is timely for today’s political moment.
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