Top Research Papers on Feminism

FEMEN is a site for transnational debate over the effectiveness of a ‘‘Ukrainian form of pop feminism,’’ as core members describe their activities in a newly released historiography (Ackerman 133). Clearly situated in the hyperreality of postmodern feminism, FEMEN’s four core members, all in their twenties, admit to using media as a primary tool for discovering issues that might serve as a call to action in their quest to ‘‘kill patriarchy.’’ Using the street technique of ‘‘sextremism,’’ where ‘‘female nudity is a grave-digger of the system,’’ FEMEN claims a form of ‘‘peaceful terrorism’’ (FEM...

Contemporary depictions of famine and disaster are dominated by female images. "The Feminization of Famine" examines these representations, exploring, in particular, the literature arising from the Irish "Great Famine" of the 1840s and the Bengali famine of the 1940s. Kelleher illuminates recurring motifs: the prevalence of mother and child images, the scrutiny of women's starved bodies, and the reliance on the female figure to express the largely "inexpressible" reality of famine. Questioning what gives these particularly feminine images their affective power and analyzing the responses they ...

Between 1876 and 1879 five northern provinces of China were struck by the most lethal drought-famine in imperial China’s long history of famines and disasters. The provinces directly affected were Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Zhili and Shaanxi. The drought in the Yellow River basin area began in earnest in 1876, and worsened dramatically with the almost total failure of rain in 1877. By the time the rains returned late in 1878 an estimated ninety million people had suffered from hunger in an area larger than France, and between nine and thirteen million of the affected area’s roughly 108 million p...

On the occasion of the recurrent famines that devastated India at the end of the nineteenth century, the Indian "feminist" and social reformer Pandita Ramabai wrote two essays that chronicle and interweave her experiences as a very young woman during the famines of 1873-77 with representations of her relief work on behalf of female famine victims in 1896-97 and 1900-01 in the Central Provinces and in Kedgaon, near Poona. 1 While the Famine Commission reports (in 1867, 1880, 1898 and 190 I) and journalistic treatments of the famines were widely available, Pandita Ramabai's "unofficial" accounts...

Adopting a critical point of view, this article analyses the recognition of the feminist movement Femen by shedding lights on its media coverage from its creation in Ukraine to its settling in Paris and the expansion of its cause in Maghreb countries. It argues that the media coverage erects Femen as “avant-garde” and pop feminism through a series of binary oppositions with “archaic” enemies. Most of all, it draws new territorial frontiers based ethnic and race differences.

Taking a critical perspective on the question of feminism’s situation, this essay urges feminists to consider the benefits, both theoretical and political, of doing feminism without feminism. Contrary to how this may sound, this is not to recommend the wholesale abandonment of feminism, or less, a break. Rather, it is to recognize how feminism has always been defined by underlying normativities and politics that are analytically separate and distinct from feminism itself. It is also to suggest that these normativities and politics have been the field of feminism’s greatness and the source of i...

Certain forms of protest have the ‘‘potential to put pressure on a too-limited view of feminist rhetoric’’ (Flannery 127) and Qahera, an Islamic superheroine wearing a traditional hijab, attempts to do just that. Created in 2012, Qahera’s eponymous comic is the brainchild of Egyptian artist Deena Mohamed, who sought to find a way to inspire young girls to fight against her country’s sexist views of women while addressing stereotypes about Muslim culture. Mohamed posts comics featuring her superheroine on the blog aggregate Tumblr, where she also answers questions from people who want to learn ...

As Pussy Riot has changed the face of political protest in Russia, to the south, Ukraine has seen the emergence of Femen, famous for their topless protests against everything from sex tourism and trafficking to hot water shut-offs in Kyiv to sexism in the Ukrainian government to Putin's visits to Ukraine. Their concurrent appearance in the post-Soviet sphere encourages a discussion around the mobilization of sexuality as protest in the region. Both groups appropriate sexual language and imagery as well as physical sexuality in protest of their current regimes. This article engages the question...

Feminism, both as a theoretical analysis of gender inequality and oppression and as a political movement, has used literary texts extensively in making and disseminating its meanings. Literary and literary-critical texts were central to 'second-wave' feminist politics and the movement for 'women's liberation' in the late 1960s and 1970s, laying many of the foundations for the developments in feminist and gender criticism and theory that have changed literary studies so radically. The significance of literature for feminism also gives a particular place to those writers whose work spans both fe...

stitution in 1935, they included a plank that withdrew the policing powers of the American-backed SPCA of the Philippines. Whether they promoted it or rejected it, both animal advocates and colonial nationalists recognized the “gospel of kindness” as a tool of assimilation. In focusing on the connection between the gospel of kindness, animal advocacy, and programs of civilizational uplift at home and abroad, Davis brings fresh questions generated by imperial, borderlands, and transnational history to the study of animal protection. She convincingly shows how the treatment of animals became a m...

The aim of this article is to introduce a mother-centred mode of feminism—what I have called “matricentric feminism”—to consider the context and challenges of a mother-centred feminist theory and politics, and to suggest directions for future research. Motherhood, it could be said, is the unfinished business of  feminism. Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers’ needs and  concerns as the starting point for a theory and politics on and for women’s empowerment. This repositioning is not to suggest that a matricentric feminism should replace...

eminism faces many challenges to its continued viability as both a social theory, and a political movement. Politically, the tides have turned against a range of equality enhancing projects. The rise of neo-liberal and neo-conservative political discourses has produced an environment hostile to the claims of feminism.' Neo-liberalism insistence on individual self reliance, formal equality and minimalist governance has diverted attention away from political claims about redressing historical and systemic inequalities. Neoconservatism, by contrast, has fueled an anti-feminist backlash by reartic...

CITIZENSHIP DRAMATIZED. A Bit oi Brightening For the Study oi Civil Government. By George A. Mcf'heters, Melrose. Mass.• Grace J. A. Cleav eland, and Stella \\'. Jones. Xcw York: Henry Holt and Company. Cloth. The wonder is that Civil Government has not been taught by dramatization for scv enty-five years. It is the vitalization of every function of government. Town Meetinz, County Court in action. City Election, Session oi a Board oi Alderman, State Hearing. Model Legislative Session. both Lower and Upper Honse, Federal Government in Court, in Congress, and in Presidential Election. The infor...

The contemporary“post-feminism” in the West does not mean the end of feminism but the theoretical transformation of feminism. The post-feminism doubts about the grand narrative of the traditional theory while the psycho-analytic study of feminism becomes the supplement to the micro-analysis of the women’s emancipation in the traditional theory of feminism. Queer Theory and Cyber-feminism which appeared in the 1990s are an interpretation of the traditional form of standardization.

This work is based on a theoretical research study on Southern Feminisms and Social Intervention developed at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The South is understood as a metaphor for human suffering systematically caused by the oppression and domination of an imperialist, capitalist, colonial and patriarchal North. It is a very powerful geo-corporate-political and epistemological metaphor because it reveals and problematises the devices used for oppression and domination. This article uses cartography as a methodology to make explicit the analytical and interpretative mat...

During the summer of 2005, as with every summer in New York City, a person couldn’t enter a bar or dance club without hearing a predetermined set of summer hits. This past summer, the host was composed of Mariah Carey’s seductively thumping ‘‘It’s Like That,’’ Kelly Clarkson’s rousing anthem ‘‘Since U Been Gone,’’ The Killers’ exhausting ‘‘Mr Brightside,’’ and Gwen Stefani’s pumped up ‘‘Hollaback Girl.’’ Rounding out this chorus of lately come (and lately comeback) divas was the surprising inclusion of a song bursting with DIY electroclash beats, rousing military horn sections, and the gunfire...

Abstract:This essay examines the grassroots feminist zine Flor y Canto, published by the East LA Chicana collective Mujeres de Maíz (MdM). This submission-based publication consists of poetry and visual art by women of color. Often associated with third wave feminism, feminist zines are credited for being the vehicle of expression for third wave feminist thought. Although Flor y Canto presents many of the characteristics common in feminist zines, MdM also draws on a Chicana feminist epistemology grounded in Indigenous worldviews to denounce the gender status quo. MdM adopts a politicized spiri...

The feminist movement supports equity and equality for all. Alongside the feminist struggle for equity is a newly developing social phenomenon known as pseudo-feminism. Principles of pseudo-feminism support the advancement of females ahead of other genders, and the active targeting of males to right the wrongs of the past. These principles stand in direct opposition to the gender equity principles of feminism. This research paper seeks to provide insight into the phenomenon of pseudo-feminism as it appears across genders, explored in the personal and professional contexts of South African citi...

On 4 February 2023, the Centre for Gender Studies as SOAS University of London in the United Kingdom spontaneously hosted a conference titled We are the feminisms in the lecture theatres (and in the streets). The event was put together within 10 days and speakers from London-based SOAS, University College London (UCL), London School of Economics and Cardiff University, Glasgow School of Arts as well as independent scholars promptly agreed to share their work and – as the subtitle to the conference promised – their understanding of feminisms as ‘intersectional, transnational and interconnected ...

efforts were strongly imbued with this social commitment, which perhaps found its best expression in the manner in which he treated the problems of women in his fiction. In doing so he marked a definite break with the earlier literary tradition which placed women within the parameters of romantic chronicles. In contrast to the earlier tradition, Premchand conceived a new image of woman in the context of the changes taking place in Indian society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the process, the ’persecuted maiden’ emerged as a social being, a living critique of the male world, wit...

This article argues that the concept of ‘state feminism’ no longer adequately captures the complexity of emerging feminist engagements with new forms of governance. It suggests that ‘market feminism’ offers a new conceptual framework from which feminist engagements with the state can be analysed and evaluated, and the changes within state feminism can be understood. The article documents the growing feminist embrace of the logic of the market, which manifests itself in changed practices and priorities. The article gives examples of ‘market feminism’ and argues that the move from state feminism...

Liberal Feminism and Socialist Feminism both originated from two British theoretical schools. They,from women's angle,reexamined political ideas and sexes in human society,and explored the sources of sex inequality,the differences between sexes,how to get rid of sex inequality and how to realize sex equality. Thus,based on the new feminist culture,new social values were put forward and theories on feminist movement were constructed which opened and instructed the Western feminist movement in different periods. However,the limitations of the two schools in theory have brought puzzlement to wome...

. Severally, European and North American feminists have often been blamed for imposing the historical and cultural experiences of North America and Europe on African women, and Nigerian women in particular. It is a fact as well as a truism that African and Western societies have different historical antecedents. Historical differences like colonialism and neo-colonialism have grave effects and consequences for the role, position and status of women. Like women all over the world, African women haveobstacles and challenges and they are the only one who can set right their priorities and agendas...

Feminism is not a deserted abstract concept, but instead a diverse and multifaceted grouping of ideas, and indeed conviction-oriented phenomena. Women enjoy a major presence in the world with their right to dignity. There rights and duties have been given priority by the concept of popular sovereignty and a good number of international conventions. Feminism has a history of its own. It has brought revolutionary changes in the globe. It is worthwhile to assay that in global terms, an important humane milestone came with the development of the doctrine of human rights. These rights are guarantee...

A R e v i e w of: From Feminism to Liberation. E d i t h H o s h i n o A l t b a c k (ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1971. Pp.275; Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism. Z i l l a h E i s e n s t e i n (ed.). New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. Pp.394; Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism. L y d i a Sargent (ed.). Boston: South End Press, 1981 and Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1983, Pp.373.

This article focuses on three key debates within China about the formation of Chinese feminisms: the origin of the Chinese women's movement; the theoretical debates on the origin of women's subordination; and what constitutes legitimate knowledge. It considers these internal debates in relation to the dialogues that Chinese feminists have pursued with western feminisms, and more specifically UN-based international feminisms. Chinese feminism is above all heterogeneous, and despite common beliefs about Chinese political discourse, meaningful debates do take place within Chinese feminism. Howeve...

The “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” conference, coconvened by Carmen Geha, Sara Mourad, and Rim Saab at the American University of Beirut, took place on January 19–20, 2018. It included keynote addresses by Nadje Al-Ali (University of London), Hoda Elsadda (Cairo University), Frances S. Hasso (DukeUniversity), Beth Baron (City University of NewYork), and Islah Jad (Birzeit University). It also included multiple panels that ran in parallel over two days. The conference organizers asked what feminism can accomplish “in the midst of the geopolitical crises sweeping the reg...

T THE END of the twentieth century, the American feminist movement no longer speaks with one voice. In the academy, a particularly influA ential version reigns, declaring that women not only speak “in a different voice” but encounter the world through a different “way of knowing.” This view is now coming under challenge from other feminists, among them the contributors to this section, to whom this seems a thinly disguised regression to the belief that women have innate intellectual and social limitations. Philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards provides a close analysis of the fashionable practi...

“men did not differ much in intellect” (George Levine, Darwin and the Novelists [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988], 182).

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Beatrix Campbell spoke at many meetings in Australia during her visit last April. The visi t was spo nsor ed by Australian Left Review as part of the Marx centenary. In this paper, based on the topic "Marxism and Feminism", Beatrix Campbell challenges socialists to think of the ways in which class struggle had demobi l i sed the social ist imperative. In one sense, she asserts, socialism has been spoiled by men. In a critical survey of women's movement she polemizes with various strands of the movement and suggests that a problem for women is that it is a very unusual experience for them to fi...

This chapter reviews a selection of books published in 2018 relevant to feminist critical and cultural theory. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Feminist Pasts, which reviews Victoria Margree’s Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone, Celia Marshik and Allison Pease’s Modernism, Sex, and Gender, and Ania Loomba’s Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India; 3. Feminist Presents, which reviews Orienting Feminism: Media, Activism and Cultural Representation, edited by Catherine Dale and Rosemary Overell, and Emma ...

This chapter reviews a selection of new work in the field of feminist critical and cultural theory published in the year 2020. The chapter consists of five sections: 1. Introduction, which addresses the context of the Covid-19 pandemic for the reception and application of feminist thought; 2. Feminist Technologies, which reviews Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto and Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein’s Data Feminism; 3. Archival Bodies, which reviews Cait McKinney’s Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies and Samantha Pinto’s Infamous Bodies: Earl...

As two major school,Liberalism Feminism and Radicalism Feminism occupies important position in feminism theories and criticism.They have formed different and unique opinions about science when they go into science field.This article try to give a brief analysis from origin,criticism to science and significance about Liberalism Feminism and Radicalism Feminism view on science.

While its primary focus is the United States,Feminismalso examines how multiculturalism and global thinking have infused today's feminists with a sense of widened responsibility for girls and women worldwide. Readers will find a cultural overview of society's changing perception of women and a thoughtful analysis of the directions feminism is taking today. Other sections include a chronology of significant events, a collection of biographical sketches, and annotated listings of organizations and print and nonprint resources, including Internet coverage. Rounded out by a comprehensive index, t...

I cannot agree with Dr. Faulder White that a wave of surgical prejudice in favour of mastoid operations has cast a dark shadow over intrameatal surgery, but there are a large number of chronic cases of tympanic disease which can be permanently benefited by minor permeatal procedures.

This chapter examines three feminist responses to Reinhold Niebuhr’s thought and contemporary Christian Realism—conflict, integration, and conversation. The chapter emphasizes the need for future conversation between feminists, realists, and ethicists across a wide variety of fields with people living in the most vulnerable and precarious economic circumstances in the US and around the world. More attention and exploration of Christian concepts of sin and redemption relevant within the contemporary context are worthy of attention. Fostering more intentional conversation across established disc...

Currently, globalization is breaking through the borders of nations with the momentum of an avalanche and fastly rewriting the definition of place, state and region. In respect of women, the progress of globalization on the one hand rapidly uplifts the transnational women's problems such as women's impoverishment, the increase of female immigrants, etc. On the other hand, it boosts the link-up of women's movement worldwide, for example the UN World Conference on Women, the transnational NGO women's organization, and the internet. To define these new globalization developments and push women's ...

Many South African scholars have engaged intensively with questions of gender and drawn insights from and debated various schools of feminism for some time. Feminist and gender studies more widely have devoted considerable attention to methodological and paradigmatic issues that bear on a range of enquiries. This tightly argued work addresses many of such issues. While engaging primarily with Western feminisms, many of the questions that arise are ones that confront scholars in South Africa.

This article aims to revisit Islamic feminist thought on the reinterpretation of the Qur'an by analyzing the views of four major figures in the movement: Aminah Wadud, Fatima Mernissi, Asma Barlas, and Riffat Hassan. This study uses a critical text analysis approach to understand the arguments and interpretations they put forward in interpreting Qur'anic verses related to gender. Through an in-depth analysis of their work in articles, books, and papers of their views. In addition, the article explores the ways in which these Islamic feminists reconstruct an understanding of sacred texts, highl...

Ismert jelenseg, hogy a legtobb orszagban a szegenyek kozott tobb a nő, mint a ferfi, es a női nem igy a szegenyseg egyik rizikofaktora. Kutatasunk elsődleges celja az volt, hogy megvizsgaljuk mely tarsadalmi szintű tenyezők azok, melyek a szegenyseg szempontjabol kulonosen hatranyos helyzetbe hozzak a nőket. Masodsorban, kicsit elmeletibb szinten kutatasunk soran egy specialis dimenziobol (a nemi egyenlőtlenseg iranyabol) kaptunk kepet a kelet europai rendszervaltas tarsadalmi folyamatairol es azok kulonbsegeiről a poszt szocialista allamokon belul. Eredmenyeink azt mutatjak, hogy azokban a p...

Feminism is a comprehensive movement that aims to address diverse manifestations of injustice and promote the rights of women. Despite their diverse nature, women's movements around the world express shared concerns regarding reproductive, political and legal rights. The primary objective of feminism is to emancipate women from various forms of mistreatment and foster global collaboration among women. However, there remains a substantial discrepancy in the quality of life experienced by women in economically impoverished nations in the Global South compared to those in economically prosperous ...

This book is an innovative and creative critique of the theories and practices of feminism, revealing why it still matters in the 21st century, written by a mother and daughter author team. The co-authorship of the book reflects a cross-generational dialogue within feminism, which demonstrates feminisms continued relevance in the 21st century. Kath and Sophie Woodward write as two situated people who challenge the current distancing of feminist theories from lived experience and use discussion between past and present feminisms to reinvigorate what it means to speak as a woman and to engage wi...

This path breaking book – the first of its kind – critically evaluates the place of women in the development of the neo-classical school of economics. It traces the origin of the school's approach to women and exposes the bias in methodology and discourse which has characterized the school's treatment of women and their place in the capitalist economy.

Existentialist feminism stresses that females should go beyond their own intrinsic nature and establish their consciousness of subjectivity while eco-feminism advocates reestablishing women's unique quality and objects to men's savage conquest over women.These two seemingly opposite and contradictory theories share the common ideals and expectations,namely to examine and overturn patriarchal rule,change women's passive status and search for and realize women's values.The differences lie in the different approaches to realize them.As they have the common ideals,it is necessary to seek for dialo...

Set within the context of a consideration of the cultural phenomenon of postfeminism, the focus of this chapter is an exploration of the issue of femininity and entrepreneurship, which unlike masculinity and its relationship with entrepreneurial activity, has had relatively little research attention directed at it. Drawing on three postfeminine factors—individualism, choice, and empowerment; notions of ‘natural’ sexual difference; retreat to the home—the chapter identifies four emerging entrepreneurial femininities including individualized entrepreneurial femininity, maternal entrepreneurial f...

This article turns to an eco/feminist peace camp of the early 1990s in order to revisit the often passionate and troubled debates in feminism about pacifism, non-violence, maternalism and essentialism. Many readings of feminist peace activism, and eco/feminism, have collapsed a complicated politics into simple manifestations of maternalism, while at the same time reducing maternalism to essentialism. In this process essentialism has been invoked to disavow feminist peace activism and eco/feminist activism. Yet the critique of essentialism has now been the subject of much reflection by feminist...

This article opens with the questioning of a now established scholarly category, `French feminism'. It proposes that theoretical and polemical understandings of `French feminism' have been founded on an opposition to its counterpart, `Anglo-American feminism'. The measure of this opposition has been defined mostly as geographical, linguistic and cultural. But underneath such constructions often lies the old sameness vs difference debate that has captivated feminism since the suffragettes. The article argues for a less oppositional and less discounting definition of the two strands of feminism....

Feminism defined as an attempt to eliminate the inequality between women and men by engendering the analysis of the social construct has been and is being challenging for the contemporary economics. Feminist approach argues that without critical analysis, economics rationalizes and naturalizes existing social hierarchies based on gender, race, class and nation. Therefore feminist economics is a revolutionary attempt with a transformative theoretical approach and transformative methodologies for a fuller understanding of real life economics for real people. Keywords: Feminism, Economics, Femini...