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Jindy Pettman stresses that “differences among women must be part of theorizing women’s experiences of states and citizenship, and of power more generally.”1 As the introduction to this collection suggests, this involves understanding how individuals are effected by, and respond to, oppression in varied ways while maintaining a commitment to an overarching feminist ethic. By this account, successful critical theory—feminist or otherwise—demands constant negotiation between induction and deduction, empathy and judgment, difference and emancipation.
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Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996), 22.
James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 30.
James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
Michel de Certeau, trans. Steven Rendall, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
Vietnamese women and everyday resistance are examined in Kim Huynh, “Modernity and My Mum: a Literary Exploration into the (Extra)ordinary Sacrifices and Everyday Resistance of a Vietnamese Woman,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 25:2 (2004), 1–25;
see also Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004);
Marguerite R. Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, ed, Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance (New York: Routledge, 2001).
Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (London: Pandora, 1989), 17.
See Matthew Gutmann, “Rituals of Resistance: a Critique of the Theory of Everyday Forms of Resistance,” Latin American Perspectives 20:2 (Spring 1993), 74–96;
James C. Scott and Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance in South-East Asia (London: Frank Cass, 1986).
Pham Van Bich, The Vietnamese Family in Change: The Case of the Red River Delta (Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999), 188.
Enloe, Bananas, Beaches & Bases, 1989.
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Huynh, K. (2009). One Woman’s Everyday Resistance. In: D’Costa, B., Lee-Koo, K. (eds) Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617742_8
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