Posters against the Patriarchy: Violence across the Public/Private Binary in Brussels

Abstract: Street protests create spaces of appearance (Arendt) that galvanize public support for fighting hitherto hidden forms of precarity and oppression. Put in these terms, street protests raise questions about their duration, as they rely on the physical proximity of people; they also raise concerns about who can and cannot participate in this space of appearance and in what way, as public space is subject to various forms of policing (Butler). In this paper, I investigate these limits of embodied resistance by looking at a different form of street protest, namely the feminist collectives that put up posters in the streets of Brussels denouncing gender- and sex-based violence. Some of these focus on feminicide, publishing the name of victims of domestic violence, while others target street harassment by imploring passers-by to “laisse[r] les filles tranquilles” and yet other denounce everyday sexism. In different ways, these interventions relate isolated and privatized experiences of vi.... https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/532

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Posters against the Patriarchy: Violence across the Public/Private Binary in Brussels ; volume:13 ; number:1 ; year:2023 ; HannahArendt.net ; 13, Heft 1 (2023)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Schoonheim, Liesbeth

Further information

• DOI: 10.57773/hanet.v13i1.532
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024020211073147538039
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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