Feeling Democracy

SARAH TOBIAS is executive director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University and affiliate faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department. She is the co-editor of Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativites and Perils of Populism (Rutgers University Press).    ARLENE STEIN is distinguished professor of sociology at Rutgers University. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity and The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith and Civil Rights.  

Introduction - Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein
Chapter 1: Social Movements and Emotion Cultures: Learning from the Undocumented Immigrants’ Movement - Kathy Abrams            
Chapter 2: “The Women of Egypt are a Red Line”: Anger and Women’s Collective Action - Nermin Allam
Chapter 3: Our Paranoid Politics - Noëlle McAfee
Chapter 4: The Political Branding of COVID-19 - Ciara Torres-Spelliscy             
Chapter 5: Towards a Decolonial Democracy: Rageful Hope in the 1961 and 1972 Afro-Asian Women’s Conferences - Kirin Gupta    
Chapter 6: “The Kind of World We Wanted to Be In”: “Protocol Feminism” and Participatory Democracy in Intersectional Consciousness-Raising Groups - Ileana Nachescu                                 
Acknowledgments  
Notes on Contributors
Index