Monday, 30 November 2015

My Body Is My Manifesto : SlutWalk , Femen and Femenist Protest .

The author of the following text 'My Body Is My Manifesto : SlutWalk , Femen and Femenist Protest , is Theresa O Keefe which was published in 2014 . She was a lecturer in sociology department at National university of Ireland Maynooth . Her book Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013 . She mainly emphasizes on the uses of intersectional analysis to look at a popular form of womens protest to raise questions . She then mentions about the body protests Slut Walk , and Femen . 
In the following text she talks about where slutwalk took place , and how was it formed . All this started when a police officer told a woman to present in a safety information session at University's Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto by saying that if she wanted to be safe they should avoid dressing like sluts . She also makes a comparison between a Slut Walk and Femen . This article is mainly about her difficulties in analyzing slut walk and femen . Then in her sub heading spectacles of defiance or compliance she first stated the meaning of bodies . Then she questions about how do we build bodies that are inclusive of differing bodies like skiny , fat . ugly etc . On slut Strutting she stated that the slut walk modus operandi is to challenge the world slut and words like sexuality and sexual assault and to correct the world slut to use in a self defining and positive way . 
About Femen its main point was to defend with their breast sexual and social equality of the world and to organize publicity stunts where breast is used to capture the attention of mainstream media .Femen was founded in Kyiv in 2008 by Okasana Shachko Inna Shevchenko , sasha shevchenko and 23 years old economist Anna Hutsol . Femens believe that womens liberation is tied to what they wear . 
I think Theresa has made a great comparison between Slut Walk and Femen . This text is mainly for the ones thinking positively and taking things in a positive manner for what is happening around the world and taking positive steps where needed . 


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