My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movements.

IF 1.4 2区 心理学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-09 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1177/17506980241262391
Tashina Blom
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This article discusses how the reproductive rights slogan 'my body my choice' - which functions as a carrier of feminist cultural memory - was weaponised when it gained traction in anti-vaccine movements that appropriated it. During the global Covid-19 pandemic, transnationally coordinated groups associated with the far right and characterised by nationalist and pro-life values started using the protest slogan to politicise their resistance to local lockdown restrictions and vaccine and mask mandates. The article shows that their use of the slogan was a hostile form of mnemonic appropriation and analyses the discursive mechanisms used to discredit the reproductive rights movement. It demonstrates that when slogans become carriers of cultural memory, they can be used in claim-making by movements on opposing sides of the political spectrum. It concludes that protest memories can be used politically both in the advancement of social movement causes as well as in the backlash against those causes.

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我的身体我做主:美国反疫苗运动中对女权主义文化记忆的敌意挪用。
本文讨论了生殖权利口号 "我的身体我做主"--作为女权主义文化记忆的载体--是如何在反疫苗运动中被武器化的。在 Covid-19 全球大流行期间,与极右翼有关联并以民族主义和支持生命价值观为特征的跨国协调团体开始使用这一抗议口号,将他们对地方封锁限制以及疫苗和口罩规定的抵制政治化。文章表明,他们对口号的使用是一种充满敌意的记忆挪用形式,并分析了用来诋毁生殖权利运动的话语机制。文章表明,当口号成为文化记忆的载体时,它们可以被政治立场对立的运动用来提出主张。研究的结论是,抗议记忆既可以在政治上被用于推动社会运动事业,也可以被用于对这些事业的反击。
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Memory Studies
Memory Studies Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. Memory Studies affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today. Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourse on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
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