Everyday Life Practices

This work demonstrates how feminist theory emerges from everyday life, exploring the revolutionary potential of the 'feminist killjoy' figure. Ahmed combines affect theory, queer phenomenology, and intersectional feminism to analyze how feminists become estranged from worlds by naming problems, and create survival strategies to cope with the walls of racism and sexism.

Cynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through eight Iraqi and American women, showing how gender shapes security, work, military service, and care - and why its costs continue after combat fades from view.

Through the absurd comedy of two brides swapped on a train due to identical veils, this film exposes how rural Indian patriarchy employs the 'erasure of the face' to systematically invisibilize female identity.