Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest presents several grounded accounts and analyses of the 2017 Women's March on Washington through a folkloristic lens. Alongside its six peer-reviewed essays, it incorporates many pages of large, full-color photographs of protestors and their signs—an important documentation project in its own right. Edited by Rachelle Hope Saltzman, this volume was published in 2020 at a time of escalating state violence and political maneuvering designed to bewilder and exhaust the public. Precisely because so much has happened in the few years since the Women's March, we are fortunate to have this thoughtful documentation of a decisive moment in the recent past: the lead-up to the 2016 United States presidential election and the wave of popular resistance that grew between Donald Trump's win in November 2016 and his inauguration in January 2017.
The collection foregrounds marches outside the largest women's marches in the United States (those...
