Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought I –

In-Person Roundtable

Participants:

• (Chair) Patricia Moynagh, Wagner College
• (Presenter) Mary Andrea Caputi, California State University, Long Beach
• (Presenter) Erica Suzannette Lawson, University of Western Ontario
• (Presenter) Catherine Wineinger, Western Washington University
• (Presenter) Min Joo Lee, Occidental College
• (Presenter) Kathryn J. Perkins, California State University, Long Beach

Session Description:
Pursuant to the publication of our co-edited book, Edward Elgar’s Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, Patricia Moynagh and Mary Caputi propose two roundtable panels for APSA 2025. These panels will each feature 7-8 contributing authors as well as our participation as co-chairs. These panels will allow us to showcase the book’s breadth of scholarship on cutting edge topics of concern to feminist theory that speak directly to various crises in today’s turbulent world. Each of the book’s twenty-four essays argues from a different angle that feminism offers a crucial corrective to the divisions, animosities, and gridlock that characterize politics today. Included among the topics addressed are the rise of the alt right, “white” feminism, transmisogyny, Black maternal grief, Chinese feminism, carceral feminism in India, abortion, and neocolonial gendered politics. We have received confirmation from our authors regarding their enthusiastic willingness to participate in these panels. We envisage two panels that will allow our authors to describe their contributions to the Handbook followed by a discussion with the audience regarding how feminism has changed in the twenty-first century and now addresses a wider array of topics than in the past. The book’s co-editors, Patricia Moynagh and Mary Caputi, will serve as co-chairs of each panel.