Anarchafeminism

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Notes

1 I am opting to write the full name or the last name of authors interchangeably, as Chiara Bottici herself does in Anarchafeminism. Only using the family name of an author, which in many cases still is the father’s name, is not consistent with an anarchafeminist approach that fights patriarchal structures and oppression. I will further abstain from using pronouns if authors did not self-identify previously.

2 The term “women” encompasses feminine women, masculine women, lesbian women, trans women, queer women, cis women, women assigned female or male at birth, and all others who self-identify or are identified as women.

3 This positions anarchafeminism close to intersectional feminism, and Bottici also draws on this concept; however, for her, an intersectional approach carries the risk of losing something about the specificity of women’s oppression.

4 In the book, Chiara Bottici is also highly critical of the concept of “the West”/“Western” with all of its implications (as many other authors have been before her), which is why these terms are written in quotation marks to indicate their constructedness.

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Mariella Werner

Mariella Werner holds a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from the University of Passau, Germany. She is currently finishing her Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany. Her research interests revolve around critical, decolonial approaches to peace(building), critical European studies, and intersectional feminist perspectives on conflict.