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Women’s Liberation and Agrarian Transitions in the Global South

Women’s Liberation and Agrarian Transitions in the Global South Editorial Agrarian South: Journal of Women’s Liberation Political Economy 10(1) 7–14, 2021 and Agrarian © 2021 Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South (CARES) Transitions in the Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india Global South DOI: 10.1177/22779760211010009 journals.sagepub.com/home/ags This special issue advances debates and examines lacunae in the literature on agrarian social movements with special focus on the participation and role of women’s leadership in historical and contemporary anti-imperial- ist struggles. On the one hand, the scholarly focus on a class analysis of the demands of movements for social transformation has often failed to account for the anti-patriarchal character of such demands and the influ- ence of feminist activists in shaping these agendas. On the other hand, some of the literature on women’s struggles has been concerned with the feminist credentials of women participants and their struggles in move- ments for social transformation. These two strands in the literature are both problematic, in the sense that they fail to fully account for women’s leadership of social movements. Not surprisingly, some have critiqued the hegemonic feminist discourses that exclude struggles that do not fit into limited definitions of what is “feminist,” characterizing them as a form of gate-keeping that colludes with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy SAGE

Women’s Liberation and Agrarian Transitions in the Global South

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy , Volume 10 (1): 8 – Apr 1, 2021
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Editorial Agrarian South: Journal of Women’s Liberation Political Economy 10(1) 7–14, 2021 and Agrarian © 2021 Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South (CARES) Transitions in the Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india Global South DOI: 10.1177/22779760211010009 journals.sagepub.com/home/ags This special issue advances debates and examines lacunae in the literature on agrarian social movements with special focus on the participation and role of women’s leadership in historical and contemporary anti-imperial- ist struggles. On the one hand, the scholarly focus on a class analysis of the demands of movements for social transformation has often failed to account for the anti-patriarchal character of such demands and the influ- ence of feminist activists in shaping these agendas. On the other hand, some of the literature on women’s struggles has been concerned with the feminist credentials of women participants and their struggles in move- ments for social transformation. These two strands in the literature are both problematic, in the sense that they fail to fully account for women’s leadership of social movements. Not surprisingly, some have critiqued the hegemonic feminist discourses that exclude struggles that do not fit into limited definitions of what is “feminist,” characterizing them as a form of gate-keeping that colludes with

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