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Reconceptualizing Work and Building Ruddick's Feminist Solidarity Transnationally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2015

Sally J. Scholz
Sally J. Scholz*
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Villanova University
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Abstract

I offer a reading Sara Ruddick's account of feminist solidarity as grounded in her reconceptualization of “work” in order to suggest that she provides a framework for transnational feminist solidarity that offers an important augmentation to other contemporary theories of transnational feminist solidarity. Feminist solidarity, according to Ruddick, forms through struggles to work. But what she means by work has not been fully appreciated in the literature on Ruddick. Scholars who focus solely on maternal thinking or even the work of mothering obscure the fact that such work is just her prime example of the reconceptualized notion of work she develops. I unpack her notion of work and show how it functions in a theoretical account of transnational feminist solidarity and feminist resistance movements.

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Research Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 382 - 405
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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