Insurgent feminisms – women writing wars: mapping gendered trauma, un/learning generative utopias and the intersectional imperative

In seeking gender justice, the approach to inclusivity involves an imperative to intersectionality so other ‘minoritised’ groups and their values matter in shaping experiential analyses to bridging academic and activist interventions and seeking more communities of practice to emerge as possibilities for change. Thus, linking the materialities and embodiments of practitioner and activist work with transformative feminist and intersectional scholarship is the nexus that brings the nodes of theory, practice and activism together to set out an agenda for researching, writing and addressing trauma.
This intervention has two key sections, the one following situates gendered trauma as a process of unlearning in order to co-produce possibilities of generative utopias, taking memory in its intersectional context as a new sociological imagination; the second section then links these insights to the work of women scholars writing about war to make concluding arguments about the conceptual and political value of such interventions as blueprint to future work in trauma and (civil) war studies.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in the journal Feminist Review, published by SAGE Publications.