Top Research Papers on Feminism

Feminism, at its very core, aims to dismantle systems of oppression; however, the identification of which systems are oppressive and what kinds of beings are harmed by them has been the subject of debate in feminist circles for more than a century. Across the many waves of feminist movements and throughout the halls of humanities and social sciences departments around the world, feminist thought and feminist practices are heavily contested and often come into conflict. From difference and discord arise efforts to make both feminism and the world a more inclusive and just place. Yet there remai...

1. Introduction 2. Feminism, cultural studies and popular culture 3. Film studies and the woman's film 4. Reading romantic fiction 5. Soap operas and their audiences 6. Consumption and material culture 7. Fashion and beuaty practices 8. Youth cultures and popular music 9. Conclusions

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 ...

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...

Feminism and social work alike are complicit in historic colonial projects and further this agenda into the present day through the perpetuation of white supremacy. As social work moves to reckon with historic harms and decolonial feminist discourse proliferates, it remains to be seen how feminist social work will acknowledge or account for the legacy of systemic violence against Indigenous peoples and make meaningful changes going forward. The combination of close reading of the literature and the embodiment of experiential and cultural knowledge informs the development of the Indigenous deco...

The language of gender equality is increasingly popular worldwide. Yet, it is used both to advance women’s rights and justify the rollback of commitments to equality and democracy. This kind of “abusive feminism” is also arguably on the rise: would-be authoritarian actors today often attempt simultaneously to appeal both to conservative anti-feminist and feminist voters. In one breath, authoritarian actors condemn feminist ideas, and in the other, they selectively and opportunistically advance the language, if not substance, of women’s rights and ideas about women’s descriptive representation...

The authors of Feminism for the 99% attempt a creative mimicry of Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto. With this mimicry they don’t just produce a book reflecting Marx and Engels systematic organi...

The article enhances Frigga Haug’s theses on Marxism-feminism by discussing a silence in the theses regarding the internal colonialism of the feminist movement that continue creating racialised hierarchies among White feminist and indigenous people and women of colour and their struggles. The author contends that Marxism-Feminism is failing to find new ways to understand diversity due to the influence of traditional Eurocentric Marxism. To tackle the problem, Marxism-feminism requires a decolonising Marxism that draws on ‘late Marx’ and recent Marxist and feminist theoretical developments aimi...

Agroecology claims to celebrate biocultural diversity and promote dialog of knowledge as two of its fundamental pillars. Unfortunately, our science is neither as diverse nor as dialogical as we portray it to be. That is why for the last ten years women agroecologists in Latin America have been shouting “¡Sin feminismo no hay agroecología!” (No feminism, no agroecology!). And why are we shouting? First, because, as FAO has documented, women perform most of the “care work” involved in producing crops for selfconsumption as well as storing and preparing food, but in most of the world women farmer...

One of the core contributions of a feminist analysis has been the examination of what was often an implicitly racialized gendering of a purported division between public and private; this work examines its relevance to the multiplicities of COVID-19.

Mollie Church Terrell’s black feminism addressed issues that confronted African American women. She identified herself as “a colored woman in a white world” who experienced both racism and sexism throughout her life. Terrell and other black women intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century articulated the interconnected nature of black women’s lived experience and helped create a framework of black feminist thought that stretches all the way to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. Terrell repeatedly asserted black women’s right to be full citizens, to vote, and to be treated...

‘Glitch feminism’ is a manifesto: this short, pamphlet-like book is structured around a series of 12 pronouncements declaring what ‘Glitch’ is or does, and in the process claims a new and distinct ...

Men founded and have ruled over Sufi orders since their inception, and thus the position of Khalifa or shaykh has been traditionally held by men. However, this study argues that in some Islamic mystical traditions women have assumed a senior leadership role with all the power that such a prominent position entails. More research is needed to understand the challenges Sufi women have faced in legitimizing their power, their experiences in a patriarchal society, and the various methods they have used to establish and protect their religious authority. By adopting a qualitative approach, this st...

This collection of essays explores how individual subjects come to their feminist praxis through autoethnographic and other qualitative accounts, and how they offer resistant and decolonial strategies via reflection on their lived and embodied realities. Drawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression. Plural Feminisms spurs a discussion on how structural violence is identified and resisted, and the invisi...

The question of “why there have been no great women artists,” initiated by Linda Nochlin in 1971, elicits different responses from art domains in China. In addition, the notions of feminism or feminist art criticism, translated from English and practiced by Chinese artists, create distinct connotations reflective of different gender conditions. Zhu and Xiao, in their Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics, claim that “Chinese feminisms must remain plural because those concepts represent the changing practical consciousness in response to historical and social developments” (Zhu and Xiao, 2021:...

Book Review of: REVOLUTIONARY FEMINISMS Bhandar, B. & Ziadah, R. Verso , 2020, 240 Pages.

ABSTRACT In this article I write on the rift between trans inclusive and gender critical feminists in the UK. I consider this division within university culture through a focus on the case of Kathleen Stock. I discuss the coverage of her resignation from the University of Sussex through a focus on The Daily Telegraph. From a trans inclusive feminist viewpoint, I discuss the way her case has been used to spread misinformation around universities, and trans people. I examine the key ideas of gender critical and trans inclusive feminists and present an analysis of concepts of free speech and deba...

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Abstract. Feminism is a movement of women who struggle against sexist oppression and exploitation by calling for equality and justice. The realization that women had equal rights to mine is what started the campaign. Women face discrimination in society due to norms and traditions. By all means, women cannot accept the social behavior that intimidates them. The study used descriptive qualitative approach. The novel Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El- Sadawi details the difficult circumstances faced by Firdaus, a woman who fought for her rights both  a woman and  a human. Talked  feminism and how ...

This Element analyzes the features of current feminist movements in Latin America and their responses to conservative reactions. For this, it focuses on the pro-choice movement vis-à-vis the anti-abortion countermovement in Mexico and Brazil. It offers a relational approach embracing the dynamics within the feminist field and between feminism and the state to capture the movements' potential effects. First, the Element proposes the concept of nested feminist networks, which comprises of three dimensions revealing the plurality of the movement across intersectional and sexual identity issues (h...

Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and economic necessity—both on- and offline.

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy...

The historian Lucy Delap, author of The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century [2] ?(CUP, 2007), winner of the 2008 Women’s History Network Prize, has now published another book—Feminisms: A Global History [3](Penguin in the UK, and the University of Chicago Press in the US). This book, at nearly 400 pages, is a truly global history, dealing with 250 years of feminisms. Readers will find here a profound analysis of feminism across Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas, and Europe, though Delap takes a non-Eurocentric approach.

ABSTRACT Anti-feminism and misogyny online have intensified globally over the last decade, bringing substantive challenges to feminist identification and activism. This article explores the strategies for silencing and expelling feminists via the deployment of an anti-feminist discourse online, in response to feminism’s increasing visibility in China. Data was collected via observation of 23 influential feminist accounts on Weibo. This was bolstered by data from 10 semi-structured interviews with feminist Weibo account contributors. By applying critical discourse analysis (CDA), four strategie...

A rationale for why feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research is presented, the original principles of data feminism with respect to AI are rearticulate, and two potential new principles related to environmental impact and consent are introduced.

Feminism assumes that there is an unequal position between men and women in society, so efforts need to be made to eliminate the gender gap so that there are equal rights between men and women. For feminism, gender exists in every aspect of human life. And this research aims to reveal how Islam views feminism and gender equality in the Quran. This research uses a qualitative approach by applying the descriptive-analytical method. The result of the research is that in Islam the position of men and women is the same from the point of view of the Qur'anic verses studied.

ABSTRACT By interviewing self-proclaimed feminists with small-scale businesses who sell feminist commodities, the aim of this article is to understand why and how the market has become an arena for doing feminism and what this can tell us about contemporary feminism. Using theories of postfeminism and popular feminism in combination with Lacanian discourse theory, the analysis shows that feminism is renegotiated into ownership by reshaping the feminist discourse of sisterhood into business support and advice. Furthermore, competition is reshaped into a positive value of expanding the feminist ...

Over the past decade, Instagram has become increasingly popular and embedded in the contemporary experience of everyday feminisms. The platform allows for the co-existence of political, personal, mundane, and aesthetically-oriented content, created by both established feminist actors and “ordinary” people (i.e. not activists, career politicians, or celebrities). While feminist media studies have long studied similar practices of online feminism, historically the discipline has tended to privilege qualitative approaches, rather than more quantitatively-oriented digital methods approaches. Howev...

False memories may be especially likely when one is exposed to misinformation that is consistent with one's beliefs. Here, we assessed whether feminist attitudes predict susceptibility to feminism-related fake news. In Experiment 1 (n = 1537), the more negative participants' attitudes towards feminism, the more likely they were to report a false memory for a fabricated event that negatively reflected on the feminist movement, and vice-versa. This effect was only evident for those who interpreted the event as expected (e.g.., those who rated the event as bad for feminism). When the purpose of t...

This article shows the description of the theme of American Feminism. Feminism is defined as the belief in women's full social, economic, and political equality. Feminism arose largely in response to Western traditions that limited women's rights, but feminist thought has many forms and variations around the world. Shortly, this article is about the topic of American Feminism and its phases in America.

The fullness of Woolf’s engagement with early-twentieth-century feminism has at times been overshadowed by the prominence given A Room of One’s Own, and by longstanding archival obstacles to accessing her extensive work in periodicals. This chapter aims to offer an overview of Woolf’s engagement with British feminism during her lifetime, and to promote a richer conversation about how Woolf’s fiction, journalism, and essays, as well as A Room and Three Guineas, reflect a sustained engagement with, contributions to, and wariness of the feminist concerns of her day. Her responses to women’s suffr...

This chapter discusses the various ways in which language portrays a negative image of women. Some of the ways in which language has been found wanting in as far as women are concerned are outlined as follows: Language creates false gender neutrality as this purported neutrality ends up showing a bias towards maleness anyway. Language generally makes women invisible and always overshadowed by men. It makes maleness the standard measure of humanity, and maturity is all about and thus maleness is seen as the norm. Sex-marking also encourages male visibility and powerlessness of women in a male-d...

In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces? This book examines how a range of underlying mechanisms — gendered socialization and essentialism, family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory histories — afford certain professionals egalitarian outco...

Focusing on the Portuguese case, this article explores the role of feminism in counter-trafficking. Through analysing feminist discourse on human trafficking, the article interrogates feminism's ability and its limitations in challenging or reinforcing some of the most controversial policy outcomes. The article argues that, due to a structural weakness within feminism itself and the profound institutionalisation of counter-trafficking, any possibility of challenging dominant discourses on trafficking remains a distant dream. Rather, counter-trafficking attempts ultimately help create a controv...

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...

FEMINISM AGAINST PROGRESS by Mary Harrington. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2023. 249 pages. Hardcover; $29.99. ISBN: 9781684514878. *In many ways, this book is an autobiography of Mary Harrington losing faith. Not losing faith in God. It is not at all clear that she has any faith in God or a higher being. This is a book about her loss of faith in a post-modern worldview with ideas of progress that go along with that worldview. She suggests that this worldview is, in fact, a "quasi-theological regime" (p. 12), and one with powerful economic, social, and media support. In Christian terms,...

The article presents a critical analysis of the theories and practices of scientific objectivity and outlines a promising feminist concept of objectivity. The author begins by criticizing two mainstream approaches to a feminist evaluation of scientific objectivity: a social constructionism combining the techniques of semiology and deconstruction, and a feminist empiricism. The former insists on the rhetorical nature of truth existing in the power field of a textualized world, while the latter legitimizes scientific objectivity adjusted for the results of gender analysis to yield a “successor s...

All data have biographies: they are collected, cleaned, and complied before they could support powerful decisions. Every junction on this trajectory matters. Yet, according to Catherine D’Ignazio a...

This paper tries to analyze the origin and progress of global feminism. Feminism is a mass movement commenced by women of all groups to eradicate all forms of feminist oppressions by men that are prevailing in a patriarchal society. It always fights against all types of oppressions on women. It is a procedure that takes attempts to understand and conceptualize gender roles and advocates for the annexation of women’s interests in social organization. It tries to explain the phenomenon of gender inequality. It is considered as a politics to achieve gender equality in all spheres of the society. ...

ABSTRACT Recently, televisual programs such as TV Land’s Younger (2015), Freeform’s The Bold Type (2017), The CW’s Charmed reboot (2018), and Netflix’s Sex Education (2019) joined consumer culture’s era of popular feminism by hailing audiences through feminist appeals. Pilot episodes sell series to network executives and viewers – establishing series’ central tensions. Thus, we analyze how feminism operates in these series’ pilots, attending to their narrative premises and televisual styles. Situating this analysis within the frameworks of postfeminism, girl power, and popular feminism, we tra...

ABSTRACT This article explores women’s attitudes regarding the feminist movement in science, feminist identification, and the ‘women in science’ label. The data was gathered through in-depth interviews with women studying and researching in the fields of physics and physical sciences at four Dublin universities. Previous studies have not looked into women’s participation in feminist collective action in science, as well as their perceptions of the movement and its impact on their science identities. This study sheds light on how women from undergraduate to postdoctoral levels in the fields of ...

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...

The great dominance of men in various areas of life and the injustice felt by Western women had an impact on the emergence of the feminist movement, which initially only demanded equal rights to continue education in all aspects, including gender equality. This study uses a literature review method on writings that talk about Islam and Feminism. From the research results, it was found that in Islam, the roles of men and women in terms of politics, economics, education, social life and legal sanctions have the same portions and responsibilities. Islamic texts urge the progress and role of women...

Feminism is widely developed in ideology and practice. A movement that elicits a great deal of individual and collective sympathy in order to fight for women’s rights, despite it continues to intersect with the subjectivity of various experiences of women’s oppression. The dynamic movement of this group, as well as the rights advocated for, contribute to the perception that feminism has gone too far. Literature studies was conducted to comprehend a tie-in the fragmentation of feminist groups to the emergence of this perception, which in turn influences rousing an anti-feminism perspective. Fem...

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 femini...

“This book is an argument for feminism to pitch itself against a very specific frontier, that of whiteness” (176). In Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, Rafia Zakaria presents a sound critique of whiteness within mainstream feminism. Whiteness is not understood as a biological category. “You do not need to be white to be a white feminist,” Zakaria clarifies in her opening note (ix). Instead, whiteness is about the practices and ideas that contribute to perpetuating white supremacy, as the direct legacy of empire and slavery. She underlines that

This paper is produced with the aim of examining the traces of feminist thinking that is rooted in Malaysia. Feminism is a movement that fights for women’s human rights from discrimination by all parties whether men, communities, or authorities until they achieve the desired emancipation and justice. Its historical background is traced among women as early as its growth after independence in 1957 until its latest development in the 2020s. The methodology used in the production of this writing is entirely armchair research. Data were mostly obtained from individual workbooks, seminar papers, re...

This paper aims to review the development of feminism in Chinese history at different times. This literature review shows the changes in China’s feminism, summarizes the essential reasons for these changes and put forwards better solutions for the future direction. It is interesting to find that the development of feminism in China is advancing with the progress of social civilization. Through the study of history, many problems encountered in the development of feminism are the legacy of problems that have been encountered. To solve today’s problems, it is not enough to only rely on the analy...

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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to offer a reparative framework for current feminist approaches, most of which seek to inhabit rather than assimilate previous forms of inclusivity or intersectionality, by vindicating the pioneering role of past feminisms. For this purpose, I will stick to a double-edged methodological tool that has been an object of dispute in feminist and literary studies for the last decades, namely, critique and postcritique, two concepts that could be said to bear witness to old and new ways of doing feminism. My aim is not to dismiss recent feminist work but to render...