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Care(s) and Anger(s): Exploring the everyday cultural politics of care and anger in feminists’ lives
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
2025 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

In feminist care ethics, the role of emotion is widely acknowledged, yet the relationship between care and other emotions remains generic. Feminist care ethicists often emphasize traditionally “positive” emotions such as empathy, compassion, or love, while negative or “less attractive” emotions are rarely examined in depth. This study seeks to broaden the engagement with care and emotions by exploring how anger and care operate within contemporary everyday feminism. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s (2014) relational understanding of emotions and analytical tools from the emotionality of texts, I examine semi-structured interviews approached as “affective encounters,” attending to how anger and care are framed and practiced in feminist daily lives. In showing how feminist caring and angry movements can be, or are, entangled, I suggest that care and anger might work to inform each other; anger might slide to care, and care might slide to anger. While not diminishing the role of empathy, compassion, or love, this analysis opens space for multiple forms of “caring with,” including caring with anger. Recognizing this entanglement highlights anger’s potential to clarify what and whom we care for, prompting further reflection on how we care with anger.

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2025. , p. 59
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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Other Humanities
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-79408OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-79408DiVA, id: diva2:1997294
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KS K3 Culture and Change
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Available from: 2025-09-12 Created: 2025-09-11 Last updated: 2025-09-12Bibliographically approved

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