Bringing the Revolution Home: Filipino Urban Poor Women, "Neoliberal Imperial Feminisms," and a Social Movements Approach to Domestic Abuse.

Urban poor women in Metro Manila, Philippines, have developed social movement strategies toward domestic abuse. I consider how these synergize with and diverge from U.S. women of color feminist calls for "community accountability." "Survivor-organizers" in the women's federation GABRIELA influence place-based social networks to shift power relations, while organizing whole communities into a broader Left movement. I argue that their community organizing principles and survivor-centered ethics have served as vehicles to transcend carceral remedies. Entangling reformist, prefigurative, and revolutionary politics, they contradictorily invoke (and reify) carceral feminist logics and legal reforms--yet have fostered transformations that surpass possibilities offered by what I call "neoliberal imperial feminist" frameworks for punitive state action. I propose a protest politics grounded in how GABRIELA's and U.S. feminist of color political traditions speak to and expand upon one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]