Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South

This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered.

Gabriela Silva Loureiro is a feminist scholar with a strong synergy between research and teaching. Her main research interests are genders, sexualities, antiracism, decoloniality, and emotions. She currently works as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Wollongong, Australia, having held previous teaching and research positions in the UK. Her recent outputs look at the meaning-making of gender-based violence in Brazil (2023) and the work of Marielle Franco as an embodiment of Black feminist praxis (2020).

Introduction PART I: Recognition 1. Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and hashtag feminism in Brazil 2. Belonging and transformed subjectivities 3. Bodily expressions of emotions 4. A difficult vocabulary PART II: Breaking the silence 5. Saturation 6. Narrative strategies PART III: Shelter 7. Collective voices 8. Hashtag feminism in the intersections 9. Intersectionality praxis Conclusion