Top Research Papers on Feminism

I had some conception of feminism for much of my life, and it was probably something I supported. For the first 30 years of my

This work consists of a series of essays, mostly retrospective, by intellectuals and academics, all veterans of the British, American, and Canadian women's movements. The overall idea is to take stock of the prospects and problems raised by the women's movement during the past two decades. It should be stated at the outset that even to raise the question "what is feminism?" is important. "Second wave feminism," like the New Left, Black Power, and Socialist movements to which ? at least in the United States ? it largely succeeded has developed its own shibboleths and unquestioned assumptions th...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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.

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 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...

Stereotypes of feminists are almost as commonplace as stereotypes of women in general and certainly as unflattering. For some people, particularly men, feminists are women with hairy legs; for others they are aggressive, strident women; for yet others, they are women who are afraid of men and who seek the protection of women's company as a shield against a harsh, violent masculinist world. Even for those women who identify themselves as feminists or with feminist issues, there is confusion over the debates that rage within feminism, over the different kinds of feminism and the relationship bet...

« Nous sommes tous féministes » affirmait Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie en 2015. L’argumentaire de cette auteure nigériane met de l’avant l’importance de réfléchir et d’agir collectivement pour enrayer les inégalités qui existent entre les hommes et les femmes, déboulonnant ainsi l’idée que l’égalité serait atteinte et réaffirmant la pertinence du féminisme. Le féminisme peut être défini comme une «prise de conscience d’abord individuelle, puis ensuite collective, suivie d’une révolte contre l’arrangement des rapports de sexe et la position subordonnée que les femmes y occupent dans une société don...

From the Women's Marches to the #MeToo movement, it is clear that feminist activism is still alive and well in the twenty-first century. But how does a new generation of activists understand the work of the movement today? How are their strategies and goals unfolding? What worries feminist leaders most, and what are their hopes for the future? In Speaking of Feminism, Rachel F. Seidman presents insights from twenty-five feminist activists from around the United States, ranging in age from twenty to fifty. Allowing their voices to take center stage through the use of in-depth oral history inter...

A representative work of Arishima Takeo, A Woman is reputed as the Japanese Madame Bovary. Infused with feminism, the novel initiated the Japanese fiction of feminism. Arishima Takeo's feminist view was formed during his study in America. In early 20th century, his fiction had a great impact on the liberation of women.

Feminism is sometimes seen either as multiple or singular as though we have to make a choice along ideological as well as philosophical lines. Feminism, I shall argue, is both multiple and singular, since ‘liberal’, ‘socialist’ and ‘radical’ feminisms are distinctive feminisms that can and should be assessed according to the extent to which they contribute positively to the development of a post-patriarchal society. The same holds for the philosophically differentiated varieties of ‘feminist empiricism’, standpoint and post-modern theory. Each represent differing feminisms within a single body...

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Feminism in its modern meanings attests to a movement for change in the social, economic and legal position of women. In the Romantic period, no such movement existed. There were, however, individual women whose voices, separately and together, suggest the existence of a commonality of feeling around the intellectual advancement of the female sex. This article examines writing by women on female education and sexual and social reform, focussing on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, and Mary Lamb. It connects political writing and educational treatises to the novel...

Feminism is Politics! PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY NEW YORK CITY SEPTEMBER 28-NOVEMBER 23, 2016 This November, a woman from a major political party was on the American presidential ballot for the first time in history, and pundits predicted that the ultimate glass ceiling would finally shatter. In the words of this candidate's supporters, we would become a "pantsuit nation." During the several weeks prior to this unprecedented election, two news items featuring female protesters showed up in my Facebook feed. One occurred in Rhode Island, where more than three hundred women marched in solidarity fo...

in Afrikaans literature is strongly influenced by powerful and activist-oriented writers like Ronelda Kamfer, Lynthia Julius, and Veronique Jephtas. With their poetry and public statements, they have shaped the feminist discourse significantly. However, the recent discourse on feminism in Afrikaans largely overlooks the contributions of certain black Afrikaans women writers. Bettina Wyngaard, a black Afrikaans woman novelist, attempts to disrupt this silence and through her literature and opinion pieces, she advances an alternative feminist stance. This article focuses on Wyngaard’s contributi...