ABSTRACT
As feminist scholars we acknowledge the violent force of feminism as something required in order to challenge hegemonic knowledges and practices. For many this appears as a provocative statement, yet as we have argued, “feminism, in all its multiplicity, is part progenitor and product of modernity; but also antithetical to modernity. Shattering myths, blurring and betraying boundaries, obliterating social/sexual contracts – feminism has vigorously deployed and celebrated these kinds of violence” (Zalewski and Runyan 2013: 298).
