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“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution
Department of Politics, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, (GBR).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4729-2429
Swedish Defence University, Department of War Studies, Functions and Perspective Division.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9535-3276
2024 (English)In: Journal of Contemporary Asia, ISSN 0047-2336, E-ISSN 1752-7554, Vol. 54, no 5, p. 759-780Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article explores the gendered dynamics of revolutionary movements through a focus on women’s bodies as tools of resistance and protest. In the Myanmar Spring Revolution, gendered relations of power articulate with military authority to engender both women’s activism and military responses. To maintain power, the Myanmar military have sought to regulate women’s behaviour – and quell the protest – through attention to women’s bodies, sexuality, and reproductive potential. In response, women activists have mobilised against both state control and the violation of women’s bodies in imaginative and transgressive ways, using their bodies as well as gendered artefacts to subvert patriarchal and military norms. This analysis shows how women’s bodies constitute both the material object of protest – in the virtual and physical spheres – and the subject of resistance, aiming to challenge gendered logics. It means that the gendered body must be taken seriously in studies on revolutions and protests. The integral yet historically overlooked role of women in Myanmar’s revolutionary movements necessitates a gender-conscious analytical lens to fully comprehend the transformative potential and the power dynamics of such upheavals.

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2024. Vol. 54, no 5, p. 759-780
Keywords [en]
Bodies, Feminism, Gender, Myanmar, Revolution
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Gender Studies Political Science
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War Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-12610DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2024.2344117OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-12610DiVA, id: diva2:1877300
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Swedish Research Council, 2020-01922Available from: 2024-06-25 Created: 2024-06-25 Last updated: 2024-09-13Bibliographically approved

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