Introduction: Sustainable Feminisms

Abstract

The significance of feminisms appears and disappears from where you stand. In the 20th century, feminisms of different contexts have been the very basis of struggles for equity and justice at the same as time as they have faced charges of illegitimacy or irrelevance. As in the last century, the current era can be read not as the histories of feminisms only but as chronicles of feminisms intertwined unevenly with other movements for social, political, and economic justice. In this sense, feminisms have disappeared or metamorphosed.¹ Both verbs signify either that many feminisms are not recognizable as some had known or interpreted them to exist, or that they have altered beyond familiar shapes to forms that have displaced or substituted them. These transformations have led to debates on purist and reconstituted versions; these disputes have, in fact, maintained the vitality of feminisms.²

Citation

Sarker, S. (2007), "Introduction: Sustainable Feminisms", Sarker, S. (Ed.) Sustainable Feminisms (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2126(07)11001-8