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“The frivolous objections some women made to our appeals were asexasperating as they were ridiculous”Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and MoreFrom the 1911 National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to PhyllisSchlafly’s “STOP-ERA” campaign in the 1980s and governor KayIvey’s recent signing into law of House Bill 314 criminalizingabortion in Alabama, women have played a prominent role in opposingfeminism in the US. Yet these visible forms of anti feminism are but thetips of a much larger iceberg of women’s resistance to feminism thatthis two-day conference, organized by the “Women and the F-Word”team (https://wfw.hypotheses.org), proposes to explore.The notion of women’s resistance to feminism includes—but is notreduced to—organized antifeminism, a countermovement which has beenthe object of pioneering work (A. Dworkin, _ Right Wing Women_, 1983, T.Jablonsky, _ The Home, Heaven, and Mother Party_, 1994, S. Marshall, _Splintered Sisterhood_, 1997). Resistance is understood as a broad setof negative reactions experienced and/or expressed by women or groups ofwomen when they are faced with self-styled feminist behaviors, ideas oractions. As feminism is conceived as a flexible and evolving ideology,which the plural “feminisms” more adequately reflects, the modes andmechanisms of resistance will be examined from a diachronic anddialogical perspective that always takes into account the particularhistorical moment.This interdisciplinary conference means to bring together contributionsshedding light on the specific features of women’s resistance tofeminisms in the United States since the 19th century.Papers addressing the following issues will be welcome:-How did/do women perceive the first women’s rights advocates?What precise term initially triggers resistance?: Rights? Suffragism? Feminism? Modern/Radical feminism? White? Elite? Abortion? Etc..How do women (de)construct their own (non) feminism through those terms?What sort of discourses/actions did/do they produce or perform and how did/do they spread them?How did/do women evolve from a position of “feminist” to “anti“ or “non feminist”?How did/do they (re)negotiate their identification to womanhood?How important are the binaries feminism/femininity, feminism/individualism ?How does intersectionality shape resistance and how, in turn, does resistance strengthen intersectional identities?How did/do women contest the boundaries of mainstream feminism?How does globalization affect the mechanisms of resistance?Are there cases of transnational resistance?How has resistance evolved over the centuries? (persistence andchange)How does women’s resistance impact feminism?Can indifference be considered a form of resistance?Please send a 300- word abstract and a brief bio to : claire.sorin@univ-amu.fr,  marc.calvini-lefebvre@univ-amu.fr andnicolas.boileau@univ-amu.frDEADLINE: October 15, 2019.PLACE AND DATE OF THE CONFERENCE: APRIL 3-4 2020 Aix-Marseille University, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence, FranceKEYNOTE ADDRESS : Dr Ronnee Schreiber (San Diego State University),author of _Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Polit_ics(OUP, 2008)