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Wendling, Karen. "A Classification of Feminist Theories." Les ateliers de l'éthique 3, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 8–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1044593ar.
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In this paper I criticize Alison Jaggar’s descriptions of feminist political theories. I propose an alternative classification of feminist theories that I think more accurately reflects the multiplication of feminist theories and philosophies. There are two main categories, “street theory” and academic theories, each with two sub-divisions, political spectrum and “differences” under street theory, and directly and indirectly political analyses under academic theories. My view explains why there are no radical feminists outside of North America and why there are so few socialist feminists inside North America. I argue, controversially, that radical feminism is a radical version of liberalism. I argue that “difference” feminist theories – theory by and about feminists of colour, queer feminists, feminists with disabilities and so on – belong in a separate sub-category of street theory, because they’ve had profound effects on feminist activism not tracked by traditional left-to-right classifications. Finally, I argue that, while academic feminist theories such as feminist existentialism or feminist sociological theory are generally unconnected to movement activism, they provide important feminist insights that may become important to activists later. I conclude by showing the advantages of my classification over Jaggar’s views.
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Tuana, Nancy. "The Radical Future of Feminist Empiricism." Hypatia 7, no. 1 (1992): 100–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00700.x.
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I argue that Nelson's feminist transformation of empiricism provides the basis of a dialogue across three currently competing feminist epistemologies: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theories, and postmodern feminism, a dialogue that will result in a dissolution of the apparent tensions between these epistemologies and provide an epistemology with the openness and fluidity needed to embrace the concerns of feminists.
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K, Veeramani, and Chandran K. "Poet Auvai Nirmala's Feminist Theories." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-18 (December 8, 2022): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s1822.
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It is essential to break the trend of patriarchal society and make a voice for women's rights. Feminism is not something against men. The basic purpose of feminism is to show that women should not be slaves and women should be respected. While many people are creating works that praise feminism, feminist thoughts are spread in the works of writer Auvai Nirmala. Standing as a social representative of women, she highlighted all the problems women face in their daily life and has recorded the solution for them in Tamil. Through her work, she has taught awareness about feminist thoughts and the troubles that women have to face in achieving their freedom.
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Morabito, Valeria. "Developing Transnational Methodologies in Feminist Studies: the relationship between postcolonial feminisms and new materialist feminism = Desarrollo de metodologías transnacionales en los estudios feministas: la relación entre los feminismos postcoloniales y el feminismo neo-materialista." FEMERIS: Revista Multidisciplinar de Estudios de Género 4, no. 1 (January 29, 2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/femeris.2019.4566.
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Abstract. The following article is an attempt to establish a constructive dialogue between two of the leading feminist philosophical theories of our time, new materialist feminism and postcolonial feminisms. Despite the fact that new materialist feminism has claimed to share the same concerns of postcolonial feminisms, this paradigm in some cases has been unappreciated among the postcolonial field, even though the two theories actually do have some common viewpoints, as I want to demonstrate. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to highlight the main standpoints of new materialist feminism, in relation with the theoretical positions of postcolonial feminism. In order to do so, I have engaged critically with Rosi Braidotti’s thought, putting it in dialogue with the critiques advanced by postcolonial feminist thinkers. After the analysis and the definition of new materialist feminism in the first section, and postcolonial feminism in the second, I then proceeded by envisaging a common ground for the two theories. The importance of this intercommunication is based on the idea that there can be no effective politics for new materialism if this theory doesn’t develop its ability to be transdisciplinar and intersectional. It also has to become capable of accounting for the dynamics of power at all levels and with different prospective, as a way to create new politics of identity and resistance. To answer to the challenges and paradoxes of our contemporary era the creation of a space for transnational actions is more effective than ever, as I want to attest.Palabras clave: Postcolonial Feminism, Neo-materialism, Feminist Philosophical thinking, New Methodological Perspectives in Gender Studies. Resumen. El siguiente artículo es un intento de establecer un diálogo constructivo entre dos de las principales teorías filosóficas feministas de nuestro tiempo, el nuevo feminismo materialista y el feminismo poscolonial. A pesar del hecho de que el nuevo feminismo materialista ha afirmado compartir las mismas preocupaciones de los feminismos poscoloniales, este paradigma en algunos casos no se aprecia en el campo poscolonial, aunque las dos teorías realmente tienen algunos puntos de vista comunes, como quiero demostrar. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de este artículo es destacar los principales puntos de vista del nuevo feminismo materialista, en relación con las posiciones teóricas del feminismo poscolonial. Para hacerlo, me he comprometido críticamente con el pensamiento de Rosi Braidotti, poniéndolo en diálogo con las críticas formuladas por las pensadoras feministas poscoloniales. Después del análisis y la definición del nuevo feminismo materialista en la primera sección, y del feminismo poscolonial en la segunda, procedí a prever un terreno común para las dos teorías. La importancia de esta intercomunicación se basa en la idea de que no puede haber políticas efectivas para el nuevo materialismo si esta teoría no desarrolla su capacidad de ser transdisciplinar e interseccional. También debe ser capaz de explicar la dinámica del poder en todos los niveles y con diferentes perspectivas, como una forma de crear nuevas políticas de identidad y resistencia. Para responder a los desafíos y las paradojas de nuestra era contemporánea, la creación de un espacio para acciones transnacionales es más efectiva que nunca, como quiero afirmar.Palabras clave: Feminismo poscolonial, neomaterialismo, pensamiento filosófico feminista, nuevas perspectivas metodológicas en los estudios de género.
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Flynn, Elizabeth A., Miriam Brody, Cinthia Gannett, Nancy Mellin McCracken, Bruce C. Appleby, and Donnalee Rubin. "Feminist Theories/Feminist Composition." College English 57, no. 2 (February 1995): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378815.
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Calloni, Marina. "Feminism, Politics, Theories and Science." European Journal of Women's Studies 10, no. 1 (February 2003): 87–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506803010001799.
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Are women's movement and feminist theories still connected to radical politics and the interest in changing social inequalities, when feminism has been `institutionalized', for instance in the academia, and has become a mainstreaming issue in social policies? This main question was put to eminent feminist scholars, with the aim of investigating the renewed critical role of international feminism and women's/gender studies in society, science, information, education and research. A reconstruction of the main changes which have occurred to women's movements and feminist theories in the last decades were the core of the interview, stressing differences and disagreement, also in relation to the new sociopolitical claims, supported by younger generations. The conclusion was that feminism has not lost its historical political mission, even though the world scenario and ideologies have dramatically changed. Indeed, feminism has become transcultural and `glocal', facing new socioeconomic inequities induced by globalization both in western societies and countries in development, confronting with the transformation of collective/gender identities and questioning the increasing importance of (bio)technologies.
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Pandey, Renu. "Locating Savitribai Phule’s Feminism in the Trajectory of Global Feminist Thought." Indian Historical Review 46, no. 1 (June 2019): 86–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0376983619856480.
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Initially, the feminist thought was based on Humanist approach, that is, the sameness or essentialist approach of feminism. But recently, gender and feminism have evolved as complicated terms and gender identification as a complicated phenomenon. This is due to the identification of multiple intersectionalities around gender, gender relations and power hierarchies. There are intersections based on age, caste, class, abilities, ethnicity, race, sexuality and other societal divisions. Apart from these societal intersections, intersection can also be sought in the theory of feminism like historical materialist feminisms, postcolonial and anti-racist feminisms, liberal feminism, radical feminisms, sexual difference feminisms, postmodern feminisms, queer feminisms, cyber feminisms, post-human feminisms and most recent choice feminisms and so on. Furthermore, In India, there have been assertions for Dalit/Dalit bahujan/ abrahmini/ Phule-Ambedkarite feminisms. Gender theorists have evolved different approaches to study gender. In addition to the distinction between a biosocial and a strong social constructionist approach, distinctions have been made between essentialist and constructionist approaches. The above theories and approaches present differential understandings of intersections between discourse, embodiment and materiality, and sex and gender. The present article will endeavour to bring out the salient points in the feminist ideology of Savitribai Phule as a crusader for gender justice and will try to locate her feminist ideology in the overall trajectory of global feminist thought. The article suggests that Savitibai’s feminism shows characteristics of all the three waves of feminism.
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Szymanski, Dawn M. "Feminist Identity and Theories as Correlates of Feminist Supervision Practices." Counseling Psychologist 33, no. 5 (September 2005): 729–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000005278408.
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Although feminist supervision approaches have been advanced in the literature as alternatives or adjuncts to traditional supervision models, little is known about those who utilize feminist supervision practices. This study was designed to examine if feminist supervision practices were related to one’s own feminist identity and various beliefs regarding feminism in general in a sample of 135 clinical supervisors. Results revealed that feminist supervision was significantly negatively correlated with passive acceptance of traditional gender roles and positively correlated with feelings of anger over sexism, connection with women’s communities, commitment to feminist activism, and beliefs that are consistent with five prominent feminist philosophies. Multiple regression analysis found that greater use of feminist supervision practices was uniquely related to being a woman; being lesbian, gay, or bisexual; and having a greater commitment to feminist activism. Research and practice implications are discussed.
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Ahmad, Mumtaz, Umar Hayat, and Nasir Iqbal. "Language, Women and Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (March 30, 2019): 425–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-i).55.
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The present study, grounded in the qualitative research paradigm, is an interpretive and explanatory analysis of Toni Morrison's fiction from the critical perspective of post structuralist feminist literary theory and fiction. In my reading of Toni Morrison's fiction as the manifestation/materialization of the knowledge in terms of discursive (re)configuration of women and to analyze their works from "feminine sentence" perspective, I have used Feminist poststructuralist theories in the discourse-theoretical/methodological background. As part of the methodology, this project draws extensively upon feminist theories, particularly those propounded by French Feminists Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva, which I have used in the backdrop of discourse analysis methods proposed by Michel Foucault. This fusion of Feminist theories as a theoretical framework and discourse analysis as a methodology has illuminated systematically the process of the discursive formation, dissemination, and institutionalization of the knowledge about women. For my analysis of the discourse spectrum of the texts-to-be-analyzed, I have used extensively Foucault's notions about discourse and knowledge as discussed comprehensively in his books, articles, and interviews.
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ARAT, ZEHRA F. KABASAKAL. "Feminisms, Women's Rights, and the UN: Would Achieving Gender Equality Empower Women?" American Political Science Review 109, no. 4 (November 2015): 674–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055415000386.
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Although all theories that oppose the subordination of women can be called feminist, beyond this common denominator, feminisms vary in terms of what they see as the cause of women's subordination, alternatives to patriarchal society, and proposed strategies to achieve the desired change. This article offers a critical examination of the interaction of feminist theories and the international human rights discourses as articulated at the UN forums and documents. It contends that although a range of feminisms that elucidate the diversity of women's experiences and complexities of oppression have been incorporated into some UN documents, the overall women's rights approach of the UN is still informed by the demands and expectations of liberal feminism. This is particularly evident in the aggregate indicators that are employed to assess the “empowerment of women.” In addition to explaining why liberal feminism trumps other feminisms, the article addresses the problems with following policies that are informed by liberal feminism. Noting that the integrative approach of liberal feminism may establish gender equality without empowering the majority of women, it criticizes using aggregate indicators of empowerment for conflating sources of power with empowerment and making false assumptions.
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Rhode, Deborah L. "Feminist Critical Theories." Stanford Law Review 42, no. 3 (February 1990): 617. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1228887.
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Figueroa, Yomaira. "After the Hurricane: Afro-Latina Decolonial Feminisms and Destierro." Hypatia 35, no. 1 (2020): 220–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2019.12.
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The first version of this piece was written for the opening panel of the 2017 Conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) in Florida. The panel, “Decolonial Feminism: Theories and Praxis,” offered the opportunity for Black and Latinx feminist philosophers and decolonial scholars to consider their arrival to decolonial feminisms, their various points of emergence, and the utility of decolonial politics for liberation movements and organizing. I was prepared to discuss some genealogies of US Latina decolonial feminisms with a focus on the relationship of decolonial feminisms to other feminist articulations—for example, a consideration of the relation and divergence between decolonial and postcolonial feminism. I was particularly interested in examining some of the “decolonizing constellations of resistance and love” created by Black, Indigenous, Latinx feminisms (Simpson 2014b). I wanted to track the intergenerational labor of relationality as a part of women of color politics and to discuss how these politics unseat coloniality in its variant iterations.
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Duriesmith, David, and Sara Meger. "Returning to the root: Radical feminist thought and feminist theories of International Relations." Review of International Studies 46, no. 3 (May 4, 2020): 357–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210520000133.
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AbstractFeminist International Relations (IR) theory is haunted by a radical feminist ghost. From Enloe's suggestion that the personal is both political and international, often seen as the foundation of feminist IR, feminist IR scholarship has been built on the intellectual contributions of a body of theory it has long left for dead. Though Enloe's sentiment directly references the Hanisch's radical feminist rallying call, there is little direct engagement with the radical feminist thinkers who popularised the sentiment in IR. Rather, since its inception, the field has been built on radical feminist thought it has left for dead. This has left feminist IR troubled by its radical feminist roots and the conceptual baggage that feminist IR has unreflectively carried from second-wave feminism into its contemporary scholarship. By returning to the roots of radical feminism we believe IR can gain valuable insights regarding the system of sex-class oppression, the central role of heterosexuality in maintaining this system, and the feminist case for revolutionary political action in order to dismantle it.
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Escaja, Tina. "MATERNIDADES DISIDENTES Y PARADIGMAS FEMINISTAS EMANCIPADORES: DE LA RESISTENCIA AL DESTRUCTIVISM/O DE UNA CAÍDA (EN) LIBRE." ConSecuencias 3, no. 1 (November 19, 2022): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/cs.v3i1.15933.
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Dissident motherhood-s appear directly or indirectly in many of my literary and digital productions, always from the perspective of resistance to the patriarchal paradigm. Somehow, these works illustrate a certain evolution in theoretical approaches, from Adrienne Rich's distinction between “motherhood” (institutional, patriarchal, oppressive) and “mothering” (potential empowerment of the mother), to more recent activist and feminist theories, including questionings from an intersectional and decolonial feminism that also reflects on allegedly emancipatory principles of neoliberal base by the third wave of feminism. The poems and projects 13 lunas 13 (2011), and Caída libre (2004), not only resist and redefine the patriarchal paradigm and its Judeo-Christian misogynist-based approach, but also propose a new emancipatory feminist paradigm, a paradigm taken to oppositional resistance as a feminist counter-narrative with the instigation of the Destructivist/a movement in 2014. Finally, the “Feminist Manifesto in Times of Coronoavirus” (2020), intends to bring dissident maternities to a space of eco-Queer, inclusionist, empowerment.
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El tema de la maternidad-maternidades disidentes aparece abordado de forma soslayada o directa en varias de mis publicaciones tanto literarias como digitales, siempre desde la perspectiva de resistencia al paradigma patriarcal. De algún modo, dichas obras ilustran cierta evolución en planteamientos teóricos, desde la diferenciación de Adrienne Rich entre motherhood (institucional, patriarcal, opresor) y mothering (potencial empoderamiento de la madre), a propuestas activistas y feministas en el nuevo milenio, pasando por cuestionamientos desde un feminismo interseccional y descolonial que también reflexiona sobre principios presuntamente emancipadores de base neoliberal auspiciados por la tercera ola del feminismo. El poemario y proyecto 13 lunas 13 (2011), y Caída libre (2004), no sólo resisten y redefinen el paradigma patriarcal y su planteamiento de base misógina judeocristiana, sino que proponen un nuevo paradigma emancipador desde el feminismo, paradigma llevado a nivel de resistencia oposicional a modo de contra-narrativa feminista con la instigación del movimiento Destructivist/a (2014). El “Feminist Manifesto in Times of Coronoavirus” (2020), pretende, por último, llevar el postulado de las maternidades disidentes a un espacio de empoderamiento inclusivo y eco-Queer.
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Weasel, Lisa. "Dismantling the Self/Other Dichotomy in Science: Towards a Feminist Model of the Immune System." Hypatia 16, no. 1 (2001): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb01047.x.
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Despite the development of a vast body of literature pertaining to feminism and science, examples of how feminist phifosophies might be applied to scientific theories and practice have been limited. Moreover, most scientists remain unfamiliar with how feminism pertains to their work. Using the example of the immune system, this paper applies three feminist epistemologies feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theory, and feminist postmodernismtoassess competingchims of immune function within a feminist context.
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Viveros Vigoya, Mara. "Teorías feministas y estudios sobre varones y masculinidades. Dilemas y desafíos recientes." La Manzana de la Discordia 2, no. 2 (March 11, 2016): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lamanzanadeladiscordia.v2i2.1399.
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Resumen: Las teorías feministas han sido fundamentales en laconformación de los estudios contemporáneos sobrehombres y masculinidades como tentativas intelectualesy asuntos académicos y como problemas sociales. Estetrabajo analiza el impacto que ha tenido la teoríafeminista en sus distintas vertientes en los estudios sobrelos varones y las masculinidades, así como los presupuestosde estas teorías y sus principales vacíos. Porúltimo, se cuestiona cierto optimismo compartido enrelación con los cambios que se han producido en lasrelaciones de género. Uno de los retos más importantesque tiene el feminismo actualmente es mostrar que los logrosadquiridos por las mujeres en la democratización de lasrelaciones de género no deben darse por un hechoincontestable y que las relaciones de género, como relacionesde fuerza dependen de la acción y reacción de lasfuerzas presentes en ellas. Para abordar este tema sehará referencia a una serie de trabajos que evidencianlas resistencias masculinas al cambio social y las luchasque libran actualmente los varones por mantener yconsolidar su dominación sobre las mujeres.Palabras clave: Teoría feminista, masculinidades,relaciones de género, estudios de géneroAbstract: Feminist theories have been fundamental in givingshape to contemporary studies of men and masculinitiesas intellectual and academic projects as well as socialproblems. This paper analyzes the impact feminist theoryin its different currents has had on these studies, as wellas the presuppositions on which these theories are basedand their major gaps. Finally, a certain optimism aboutchanges in gender relations is questioned. One of themajor challenges feminism faces at present is to showthat women’s achievements in democratizing genderrelations cannot be taken for granted, and that theircontinuation depends on actions and reactions of forces that are at play in them. To tackle this subject, reference is made to a series of studies that show masculine resistances to social change and the struggles that males wage at present to maintain and consolidate theirdomination of women.Keywords: Feminist theory, masculinities, genderrelations, gender studies
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Barandica Ortiz de Zárate, Amaia, and Rut Iturbide Rodrigo. "Centro de Documentación - Biblioteca de Mujeres de la Fundacion ipes." Las bibliotecas de Navarra: acceso a la información y el conocimiento / Nafarroako liburutegiak: informazioa eta ezagutza eskuratzeko bidea, no. 275 (May 29, 2020): 1307–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.35462/pv.275.14.
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RESUMEN En este artículo se presenta el trabajo realizado por el Centro de Documentación-Biblioteca de Mujeres de la Fundación ipes, una biblioteca única en Navarra, especializada en género y feminismos y cuyo servicio es público y gratuito. Dentro de la misma se destaca el trabajo de preservación del legado documental feminista y su actualización; el asesoramiento especializado sobre los últimos avances del pensamiento feminista y los estudios de género; así como la sensibilización, la formación e investigación sobre dichas teorías feministas y de género. LABURPENA Artikulu honetan, ipes Fundazioaren Emakumeen Dokumentazio Zentro eta Liburutegiak egindako lana aurkezten da. Liburutegi bakarra da Nafarroan, generoan eta feminismoetan espezializatua, eta zerbitzu publikoa eta doakoa eskaintzen du. Liburutegiaren barnean, dokumentu-ondare feminista zaindu eta eguneratzeko lana nabarmendu behar da; pentsamolde feministaren eta generoko azterlanen azken aurrerakuntzei buruzko aholkularitza espezializatua; eta bai teoria feminista eta generoko horiei buruzko sentsibilizazioa, prestakuntza eta ikerketa ere. ABSTRACT This article presents the work done by the Documentation Center-Women’s Library of the ipes Foundation, a unique library in Navarra, specialized in gender and feminisms and whose service is public and free. Within it, the work of preservation of the feminist documentary legacy and its update stand out; specialized advice on the latest advances in feminist thinking and gender studies; as well as raising awareness, training and research on these feminist and gender theories.
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HOSSAIN, ISMAIL, AL-AMIN, and JAHANGIR ALAM. "NGO INTERVENTIONS AND WOMEN DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH: DO FEMINIST THEORIES WORK?" Hong Kong Journal of Social Work 46, no. 01n02 (January 2012): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219246212000046.
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This paper reviews the extent to which feminist viewpoints are incorporated in NGO interventions aimed at women's development in Bangladesh by examining major feminist perspectives alongside NGO intervention strategies. Based on fieldwork experiences in four NGOs, it determines that NGOs are not following any specific feminist theory, but rather interventions are influenced by development paradigms engrossed in western feminist perspectives. The paper finds that third world feminism is more pertinent to the socioeconomic context of Bangladesh. However, this perspective is alone insufficient to bring desired change, rather the blending of feminist views may be more conducive to women development in Bangladesh. It concludes that the understanding of feminist theories is of greater importance for NGO practitioners and social workers to effectively address the issue of women's development.
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DELAP, LUCY. "THE SUPERWOMAN: THEORIES OF GENDER AND GENIUS IN EDWARDIAN BRITAIN." Historical Journal 47, no. 1 (March 2004): 101–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x03003534.
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This article examines the development of the idea of the ‘superwoman’ among British Edwardian feminists and contextualizes it within the aristocratic political thought of the day. I examine the idea of the ‘genius’ and the ‘superman’ in order to shed light on why, for some Edwardian feminists, the ideal feminist agent was to be an elite, discerning, remote figure. I argue that Edwardian feminism witnessed an ‘introspective turn’, marked by an interest in character, will, and personality as the key components of emancipation. The focus of political change was firmly located within women themselves. This belief was widespread, even though only a minority chose the language of the ‘superwoman’ to elaborate it. References to the ‘superwoman’ indicates the impact of Nietzschean and egoist ideas upon the women's movement. The ‘superwoman’ was used to position feminism as a movement not just for political rights but for wider social regeneration, and represents a characteristically Edwardian belief in the power of the ‘exceptional individual’ to promote social change.
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Haque, Farhana. "Gender and Development: A Study of Feminist Theories." International Journal of Culture and History 7, no. 2 (September 23, 2020): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijch.v7i2.17734.
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The term feminism derived from the notion to establish women’s right equal like men. It refers to the ideology that men and women should be treated equally both in the sections of politics and morality. Feminism means to create a scope to women to raise their voice against men regarding the matter of equality and as a result feminism does frequently linked towards different types of motions since last two centuries and performed to execute the concept of parity through implanting it throughout the culture. There are several other opinions and ideologies by different feminists regarding the term equality. The individual feminists said equality means equal treatment and that should be under the laws about homage the person and possession like the entire human beings without paying attention towards the secondary characteristics like sex, race, ethnicity. The school of feminism which is radical feminism. According to them parity means socioeconomic parity where power and wealth should be re-established by law through the society. Therefore from the historical perspectives advantages of men become deleted.
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Agri, Hanna. "Utopier, hopp och hopplöshet. Hur feministiska framtidsbilder och känslor av hopp påverkas av den nyliberala diskursen." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 43, no. 1 (January 11, 2023): 72–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v43i1.10078.
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If those who formulate visions of the future are prevented from thinking freely because of a reduced capacity to imagine a different world, then there is a risk that they only advocate limited changes. Some feminist researchers in political theory and philosophy, such as Wendy Brown (2003, 2008, 2015) and Johanna Oksala (2011, 2013), claim that this has affected feminist movements. They believe that hope for a different future has been weakened among today’s feminists and that this development can be explained by the spread of the neoliberal discourse. In this article, I discuss theories on how the neoliberal discourse has affected feminist movements and relate such theories to the lived experiences of contemporary feminist engagement. The latter is based on an interview study with seven Swedish feminists engaged in different feminist organizations. The analysis indicates that the neoliberal discourse could have affected how utopias are used and what inspires hope among contemporary feminists. The result of the study also indicates that feelings of hopelessness can be useful in feminist work.
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Nieukerk, Erika. "La ideología feminista en 'Si me permiten hablar...' Testimonio de Domitila, una mujer de las minas de Bolivia." El texto hispanoamericano/The Spanish American Text 1, no. 1 (December 20, 2014): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/eth183.
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El conocido testimonio de Domitila Barrios de Chúngara se analiza en este ensayo. A la luz de la teoría feminista y del análisis del contexto de la enunciación, se observa la posición de Chúngara como líder que apoya los derechos de la mujer y su simultánea representación como no feminista. Asimismo, se explora el papel de la autora y mediadora Moema Viezzer en relación al contenido feminista de la obra. La autora sugiere que, a pesar de la negación de Chúngara, su testimonio contiene ideas feministas. The well known “testimonio” of Domitila Barrios de Chúngara, by Moema Viezzer, is analized in this essay. In the light of feminist theories and the context of enunciation, the position of Chúngara as a leader who supports women rights is explored, as well as her representation as a non-feminist woman. Moema Viezzer’s role as author and mediator is also analized with regard to the feminist contents of the book. The author suggests that, in spite of Chúngara’s denial, her account includes feminist ideas.
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Lee-Oliver, Leece M. "Situating Native American Studies and Red Feminisms." Ethnic Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2019): 196–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2019.42.2.196.
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This essay aims to show that serious and robust engagement with Native American Studies and Red feminist research, methods, and theories contribute to the epistemological core of Ethnic Studies and produce new and important understandings of phenomenology, resistance, coloniality, and structures. Native American Studies and Red feminism are situated in relationship to Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies to question the ongoing necessity of Native American scholars to occupy academic spaces. Ultimately, this paper illustrates how Native American Studies and Red feminism offer inroads to understanding the matrix of coloniality and the systematic efforts of Native American scholars, including Red feminists, to arrive at an Ethnic Studies that works for the people and serves in efforts to achieve social justice and Native American sovereignty simultaneously.
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Wajcman, J. "Feminist theories of technology." Cambridge Journal of Economics 34, no. 1 (January 8, 2009): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/ben057.
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Stopford, Richard. "Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty." Philosophy & Social Criticism 46, no. 10 (February 13, 2020): 1203–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453720903473.
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Learning about feminism can be a revelation for many students. However, for others, it can be a confounding, troubling experience. These difficulties return as problems for the teacher: how to help sceptical, resistant students understand the theory. Moreover, understanding what can be so troubling about learning feminism helps us to better understand the situation of feminist modules in the contexts of broader humanities curricula. Obviously, these are complex issues, and I wish to focus on just two specific points: how feminist theories make critical claims and the challenges that emerge for students as a result; how feminist theory claims find challenges in student certainty. Firstly, feminist theory claims, which describe sociocultural states of affairs while at the same time destabilising them, are operating with critical norms. These critical norms are at odds with norms of descriptive theory claims that students find elsewhere in their curriculum. As such, I want to explore the effects of this clash in student learning experience, and the difficulties that teachers face a result. In the second part of the article, I use Wittgenstein’s analysis of certainty to explore how feminist theory claims often challenge the very foundations of students’ understanding of themselves, and the world around them. As such, learning in the feminist classroom is not merely an issue of learning about and then adjudicating between theories. Feminist theories implicate the way in which we live, and the conditions of intelligibility for theories as such. In light of my discussions, I do not think there are onesize solutions to these issues. However, I think that recognising these problems in theory can help us to articulate them in the classroom, and this might go some way to alleviating the structural challenges faced by teachers of feminism.
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Oliver, Kelly. "Julia Kristeva's Feminist Revolutions." Hypatia 8, no. 3 (1993): 94–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00038.x.
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Julia Kristeva is known as rejecting feminism, nonetheless her work is useful for feminist theory. I reconsider Kristeva's rejection of feminism and her theories of difference, identity, and maternity, elaborating on Kristeva's contributions to debates over the necessity of identity politics, indicating how Kristeva's theory suggests the cause of and possible solutions to women's oppression in Western culture, and, using Kristeva's theory, setting up a framework for a feminist rethinking of politics and ethics.
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Calheiros, Maria Clara. "ELENA FERRANTE AND PATRIARCHY. LESSONS FROM L'AMICA GENIALE (MY BRILLIANT FRIEND)." HUMANITIES AND RIGHTS | GLOBAL NETWORK JOURNAL 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 207–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24861/2675-1038.v1i1.21.
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The relationship between feminist theories and the law and literature movement is not new and has provided very fruitful analysis over many decades, ever since the 1970s. Twenty-first century literature, which includes L' Amica Geniale (My brilliant friend), even when describing stories and action that are placed in other historical times (in this case, in the historical context of the twentieth century), allows establishing an ever renewed dialogue with feminist theories, in its current expression. The author reviews the recent "rediscovery" of feminism and how some concepts evolved in the context of feminist theories. A concept to which she devotes attention is patriarchy, as it is paramount for understanding the connections that can be perceived to exist between feminist theories and FERRANTE's work. In the author’s opinion, the Neapolitan novels are eloquent in the portrait presented – complex, multifaceted, ambiguous even – of what it ultimately means to be a woman living in a patriarchal society.
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RIBEIRO (UFPA), Joyce Otânia Seixas. "DIVERGÊNCIAS E CONVERGÊNCIAS ENTRE O FEMINISMO DECOLONIAL DE MARÍA LUGONES, A HISTORIOGRAFIA FEMINISTA E O FEMINISMO PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTA." Margens 16, no. 26 (June 30, 2022): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v16i26.11154.
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Our intention is to carry out an introductory comparative analysis of three relevant feminist approaches that divide the gender studies scene. Despite the risks, the methodological decision was made by theoretical research (Salvador, 1986; Apple, 1994), aware that it is politically informed, as theories reveal interests of the class, gender, sexuality, nation, race/ethnicity, generation, and are linked to social practice. To proceed with the study, we highlight three aspects, which are: the assumptions, the notion of gender, and the political commitment. The results we have reached inform about the existence of divergences and convergences between these feminist approaches, confirming the irreconcilable divergence between feminist historiography and poststructuralist feminism, inconsistent convergence between poststructuralist feminism, and decolonial feminism, and convergence between feminist historiography and decolonial feminism.Keywords: Feminist historiography. Poststructuralist feminism. Decolonial feminism.
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Canning, Charlotte. "‘I am a Feminist Scholar’: The Performative of Feminist History." Theatre Research International 26, no. 3 (October 2001): 223–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883301000311.
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The prefaces to two collections of essays by feminist scholars, Gerda Lerner and Joan Kelly, reveal a fusion of historical scholarship and feminism. These texts of feminist history are read through the theories of the performative as a way of exploring the intersections of the performances which gave rise to the written texts and the texts themselves, as well as how the texts demonstrate the theatricality of feminist discovery and change. The declaration of their status as feminist scholars, positioning their work within the relationship of the personal and the political, constitutes a performative act of performing their community. The ‘doing’ of history foregrounds and reveals the ‘history done’, as the performative of feminist history constructs a once erased feminist past. Understanding history as performance serves feminism as an active political movement.
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Mojab, Shahrzad. "Theorizing the Politics of ‘Islamic Feminism’." Feminist Review 69, no. 1 (November 2001): 124–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01417780110070157.
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This article examines developments in ‘Islamic feminism’, and offers a critique of feminist theories, which construct it as an authentic and indigenous emancipatory alternative to secular feminisms. Focusing on Iranian theocracy, I argue that the Islamization of gender relations has created an oppressive patriarchy that cannot be replaced through legal reforms. While many women in Iran resist this religious and patriarchal regime, and an increasing number of Iranian intellectuals and activists, including Islamists, call for the separation of state and religion, feminists of a cultural relativist and postmodernist persuasion do not acknowledge the failure of the Islamic project. I argue that western feminist theory, in spite of its advances, is in a state of crisis since (a) it is challenged by the continuation of patriarchal domination in the West in the wake of legal equality between genders, (b) suspicious of the universality of patriarchy, it overlooks oppressive gender relations in non-western societies and (c) rejecting Eurocentrism and racism, it endorses the fragmentation of women of the world into religious, national, ethnic, racial and cultural entities with particularist agendas.
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Rodó-Zárate, Maria. "Gender, Nation, and Situated Intersectionality: The Case of Catalan Pro-independence Feminism." Politics & Gender 16, no. 2 (June 7, 2019): 608–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x19000035.
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AbstractDebates on nation, self-determination, and nationalism tend to ignore the gender dimension, women's experiences, and feminist proposals on such issues. In turn, feminist discussions on the intersection of oppressions generally avoid the national identity of stateless nations as a source of oppression. In this article, I relate feminism and nationalism through an intersectional framework in the context of the Catalan pro-independence movement. Since the 1970s, Catalan feminists have been developing theories and practices that relate gender and nationality from an intersectional perspective, which may challenge hegemonic genealogies of intersectionality and general assumptions about the relation between nationalism and gender. Focusing on developments made by feminist activists from past and present times, I argue that women are key agents in national construction and that situated intersectional frameworks may provide new insights into relations among axes of inequalities beyond the Anglocentric perspective.
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HAMZA REGUIG MOURO, Wassila. "From Feminization of Fiction to Feminine Metafiction in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Woolf’s Orlando." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 4, no. 4 (October 15, 2020): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no4.13.
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Feminism developed and widened its scope to different disciplines such as literature, history, and sociology. It is associated with various other schools and theories like Marxism and poststructuralism, as well. In the field of literature, feminist literary criticism managed to throw away the dust that cumulated on women’s writing and succeeded in raising interest in those forgotten female artists. Some critics in the field of feminism claim that there are no separate spheres, masculine and feminine, whereas others have opted for post-feminist thinking. Some women writers used metafiction to write literary criticism. Therefore, how do Gaskell and Woolf implement metafiction in their stories? Accordingly, this work aims at shedding light on Wives and Daughters by Gaskell and Orlando by Woolf to tackle metafiction from a feminist perspective. Examples from both novels about intertextuality, narration, and other aspects, that are part of metafiction, will be provided to illustrate how and where metafiction is used.
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Fong, Grace S. "Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique." Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 9, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 105–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23290048-9681176.
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Abstract Feminism, feminist theory, feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca. 1600–1911). Their research drew on developments in Western feminist theories while problematizing certain applications. In this article, I review major debates in 1980s and 1990s Western feminist literary theory, divided by the different approaches of Anglo-American and French feminist critics and gender studies, examining why specific arguments on women and language, genres studied, and theoretical underpinnings did not hold significant relevance to the study of similar issues when applied to women's writing in pre-twentieth-century China. Yet certain concepts were highly fruitful in critical analysis. Feminist theory was never monolithic, even when it was Eurocentric; theories were drawn from a plurality of different disciplines and schools. Concepts that came into currency—gender, gaze, voice, agency, subjectivity, authorship, and so on—from poststructuralist, postcolonial, cultural, and film studies proved to be useful tools in feminist literary studies. Some came to be deployed in scholarship on women's literature in historical China. In this context, I reflect on theoretical approaches in significant studies of women's writing of late imperial China and consider the impact or critique this subfield of Chinese literary studies posed to Western feminist theories and broader questions of the applicability of modern/postmodern feminist theories to literature of earlier periods and other cultures before the globalization of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Rodriguez, Ainhoa. "Review of Rosi Braidotti’s, Posthuman Feminism." Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 32, no. 2 (December 13, 2022): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v32i2.118.
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Critiques to the universal condition of the human have defied the boundaries of the body and what is meant to be considered as “normal” or “neutral”, prompting the-so-called posthuman turn. This book, written by Rosi Braidotti, elaborates on the thought that “mainstream posthuman scholarship has neglected femist theory” (p. 2), postulating feminist theory as not only a contributor, but also as a precursor of the posthuman turn. Braidotti aims at offering a more sophisticated analysis of the reframing of the human as an embodied and embedded “heterogeneous assemblage” (p. 6), that understands the prismic nature of feminism and builds on a multiple stanpoints emergent from the birth of ecofeminism, feminist studies of technoscience, LGBTQ+ theories, black feminisms, decolonial feminisms, and Indigenous feminisms and that recognises such complexity within the structural socio-economic dynamics and upcoming environmental challenges that shape the subject.
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Zalaquett Aquea, Cherie. "FeminismoS en el horizonte del pensamiento latinoamericano contemporáneo." Hermenéutica Intercultural, no. 24 (August 29, 2016): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07196504.24.536.
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ResumenNuevas exponentes de la teoría crítica feminista latinoamericana han desarrollado propuestas epistemológicas que desmantelan una serie de lugares comunes y mitos muy arraigados sobre el feminismo y los sujetos subalternos en nuestro continente, derivados de la inveterada costumbre de aplicar en nuestro suelo teorías elaboradas en el Primer Mundo. Estas pensadoras se sacudieron la colonización discursiva y la dependencia ideológica de los discursos académicos anglo-norteamericanos y exploraron la propia experiencia de las mujeres latinas, de color, afrodescendientes e indígenas. Sus elaboraciones teóricas, sobre todo nos muestran que la opresión es multidimensional, por lo tanto, la categoría de género por sí sola resulta insuficiente para abarcarla y es preciso intersectarla con variables como la clase y la raza para dar cuenta de la realidad “nuestramericana”.Palabras clave: Feminismo - género - pensamiento latinoamericano - epistemologías feministasAbstractNew exponents of the Latin American feminist critical theory have developedepistemological proposals that dismantle a series of commonplaces and myths very rooted on the feminism and the subaltern subjectsin our continent, derivatives of the deeply rooted custom to apply inour ground theories elaborated in the First World. These thinkers shookto the discursive colonization and the ideological dependency of theAnglo-American academic speeches and explored the own experience ofthe Latin women, of color, African descent and natives. Their theoreticalelaborations, mainly show to us that the oppression is multidimensional,therefore, the gender category alone is insufficient to include it and isprecise intersect it with variables as the class and the race to give accountof our American reality.Keywords: Feminism, gender, Latin American thought, feminist epistemologiesResumoNovos expoentes da teoria crítica feminista da América Latina, tem desenvolvidopropostas epistemológicas que abate uma série de locais comunse mitos arraigados sobre o feminismo e indivíduos subalternos no nossocontinente, derivada da inveterada costume de aplicar teorias elaboradasno Primeiro Mundo, em nosso solo. Essas pensadoras sacudiram a colonizaçãodiscursiva e a dependência ideológica dos discursos acadêmicosAnglo-Americanos e exploraram a própria experiência das mulhereslatinas, de cor, ascendência Afro e indígenas. Suas teorias mostram quea opressão é multidimensional, portanto, a categoria de gênero por si sóé insuficiente para ser abordada e precisa ser intersectada com variáveiscomo a classe e a raça para dar conta da realidade “nossamericana”.Palavras-chave:Feminismo - gênero - pensamento latino americano -epistemologias feministas
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Hurley, Amy E. "Incorporating feminist theories into sociological theories of entrepreneurship." Women in Management Review 14, no. 2 (March 1999): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09649429910261396.
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Bird, Faye. "‘Is this a Time of Beautiful Chaos?’: Reflecting on International Feminist Legal Methods." Feminist Legal Studies 28, no. 2 (July 2020): 179–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09434-2.
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Abstract This article considers how Margaret Jane Radin’s theory of the feminist double bind can bring conceptual clarity to the difficulties feminisms face in engaging with political and legal institutions of global governance. I draw on her theory to reinitiate a conversation on ideal and nonideal theory, in order to answer the call of key proponents in international legal feminism to reevaluate methodologies in critiquing mainstream institutions. By providing an account of how to navigate the double bind, this article brings conceptual clarity to the tension between resistance and compliance that has been argued to lie at the heart of the feminist project in international law. I demonstrate how this theoretical framework can foster greater pluralist perspectives in feminist engagement of ideal theories to temper the deradicalising and conservative risk of navigating feasibility constrained nonideal strategies.
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Marrero, Maria Teresa. "Feminist Theories Don't Travel Well." Pacific Coast Philology 29, no. 1 (September 1994): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1316354.
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Rolin, Kristina. "Philosophies of Science/Feminist Theories." International Studies in Philosophy 35, no. 2 (2003): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil2003352190.
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Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. "Introduction: Feminist Theories and Archaeology." Archaeologies 7, no. 1 (April 2011): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11759-011-9169-5.
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Steeves, H. Leslie. "Feminist theories and media studies." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4, no. 2 (June 1987): 95–135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295038709360121.
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Mahmud, Lilith. "Feminism in the House of Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 50, no. 1 (October 21, 2021): 345–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110218.
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Although early feminist insights about reflexivity and fieldwork relations have become core tenets of anthropological theories, feminism itself has been marginalized in anthropology. This review examines feminist contributions to American cultural anthropology since the 1990s across four areas of scholarship: the anthropology of science and medicine, political anthropology, economic anthropology, and ethnography as writing and genre. Treating feminist anthropology as a traveling theory capable of addressing critical social problems beyond gender, this article aims not merely to recredit feminism in anthropology, but also to show its potential to transform anthropology into an antiracist, decolonial, and abolitionist project.
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Hutchinson, Janet R. "The Practice of Feminisms and Public Administration." Public Voices 3, no. 1 (April 11, 2017): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.377.
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The practice of public administration is notably lacking in the practice of feminisms. Beyond claims for equal opportunities for women played out through appeals for affirmative action, the abolition of "glass ceilings" and sexual harassment, in the liberal feminist tradition, little attention has been given to fundamental disparities inherent in public administration discourses. This paper describes several feminist theories in relation to the liberal feminist paradigm, and introduces a postmodern notion of seriality as an alternative conception for the practice of feminisms.
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Aydın, Gülşen. "Feminist Challenge to the Mainstream IR." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 2, no. 1 (August 30, 2016): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v2i1.p62-69.
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This study deals with the Feminist challenge to the Mainstream International Relations Discipline (IR) - rationalist theories, especially Realism - and the mainstream's responses to this challenge. It addresses the issue in five steps. Firstly, it sheds light on how Feminism is related to International Relations. Secondly, it examines how Feminist IR theorists criticize the Mainstream IR due to its state-centric approach and argue that being obsessed with anarchic international system prevented analysis of social relations, including gender relations. Thirdly, the study addresses how Feminism exposes the gender biases in central terms such as power, autonomy, rationality, security, and state. Fourthly, it examines how Feminist writing on IR challenges the dichotomies of the Mainstream IR. Fifthly, the study examines how the Mainstream has responded to that challenge. The conclusion argues that although Feminist challenge to mainstream IR cannot be deemed successful in reconstructing IR, Feminism still enriches our understanding of global politics.
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Sabzalian, Leilani. "Curricular standpoints and native feminist theories: Why native feminist theories should matter to curriculum studies." Curriculum Inquiry 48, no. 3 (May 27, 2018): 359–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2018.1474710.
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Aziz Mohammadi, Fatemeh. "A Study of Carter’s The Snow Child in the Light of Showalter’s Theories." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 48 (February 2015): 133–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.48.133.
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Angela Carter was an English fiction writer and journalist. Her female protagonists often take an empowered roles where they rise up against oppression and fight for both sexual and political equality. The actions of these women are direct reflections of the feminist movement that took place in the 1970s. The concepts within this movement relating specifically to the ideologies of radical- libertarian feminist, and regarding the extent to which she promotes feminist due to her style, referred to as "Galm-Rock" feminism. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincided with the period of second wave feminism in the Unites States. The majority of Angela Carter’s work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine’s internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter’s short stories; such as The Courtship of Mr. Lyon, The Tiger’s Bride, The snow child and mainly in The Bloody chamber have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles. In these stories, the protagonist is a young girl who has many conflicts with love and desire. Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation.
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Kukaine, Jana. "Intimacy and Darkness: Feminist Sensibility in (Post)socialist Art." Arts 12, no. 1 (January 29, 2023): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12010024.
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This article assembles feminist articulations scattered across art histories and theories of Eastern and Central Europe, in order to reveal their potential, not only for foregrounding postsocialist feminist perspectives, but also for enriching the vocabulary and expanding temporal geographies of transnational feminist debates. By attending to intuitive, latent, reluctant, proto-, para-, unofficial and soft feminisms, this article establishes a peculiar feminist sensibility that is attuned to Central and Eastern European women artists’ approaches to everyday, embodied and affective experiences via the critical endorsement of intimacy and darkness.
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Houston, Claire. "How Feminist Theory Became (Criminal) Law: Tracing the Path to Mandatory Criminal Intervention in Domestic Violence Cases." Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, no. 21.2 (2014): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.36641/mjgl.21.2.how.
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Our popular understanding of domestic violence has shifted significantly over the past forty years, and with it, our legal response. We have moved from an interpretation of domestic violence as a private relationship problem managed through counseling techniques to an approach that configures domestic violence first and foremost as a public crime. Mandatory criminal intervention policies reflect and reinforce this interpretation. How we arrived at this point, and which understanding of domestic violence facilitated this shift, is the focus of this Article. I argue that the move to intense criminalization has been driven by a distinctly feminist interpretation of domestic violence, what I call the feminist understanding of domestic violence as patriarchal force. I demonstrate how this understanding grew out of a feminist rejection of alternative theories of domestic violence, specifically psychological and “family violence” theories, and was informed by earlier radical feminist theorizing on rape. I offer this account as a contribution to the ongoing feminist debate over mandatory policies, suggesting that for feminists looking to reform the current system, a different interpretation of domestic violence may be a necessary starting point
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Riley, Stephanie. ""First" and "Third" World Feminism(s): Does Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy Offer a Way to Bridge the Gap?" Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 4, no. 1 (June 6, 2013): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2013.171.
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This essay considers how Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy, including his philosophical hermeneutics and narrative theory, could be employed to facilitate dialogue and understanding between feminists from different contexts. Authors such as bel hooks and Hélène Cixous frame feminist tenets of liberation from sexual oppression and validation of the body as a source of knowledge. Weaving together Ricoeur’s writing and theories with the work of two feminist scholars, Trinh T. Minh-ha and Grace M. Cho, illuminates the potential Ricoeur’s work has to play a part in feminist discourse.
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Jacklin, Carol Nagy, and Catherine McBride-Chang. "The Effects of Feminist Scholarship on Developmental Psychology." Psychology of Women Quarterly 15, no. 4 (December 1991): 549–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1991.tb00429.x.
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The present article examines some of the ways in which feminist scholarship has helped shape developmental psychology, particularly the study of child development. Three main influences are discussed. (a) Feminist scholars have helped break the “male-as-norm” tradition. Toward this end, feminists have encouraged the valuing of females, the recognition that fewer sex differences exist than had previously been asserted by society at large, and the understanding that many sex differences that do exist are caused by the different socialization patterns of girls and boys. (b) Feminist scholarship has helped lessen “mother blaming” in accounting for children's behavior. The entire social world of the child (including fathers, peers, siblings, schools, grandparents, daycare, etc.) and biological makeup and predispositions are now all recognized as important influences on children's behavior. Finally, (c) feminist scholars have helped reconceptualize children's gender-role socialization. This has been done both by reinterpreting existing theories of gender-role socialization and by developing new theories.