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Explore the latest academic research in feminist studies, gender theory, and intersectional scholarship from leading institutions

📄 49 papers
📚 23 journals
🏷️ 83 topics

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All Papers (49 papers)

💭 Theoretical Feminist Studies

Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

Donna Haraway

This groundbreaking paper redefines the concept of objectivity, proposing 'situated knowledges' as a third way between traditional scientific objectivity and relativism. Haraway argues that all knowledge comes from specific positional perspectives, advocating for 'feminist objectivity'—a form of knowledge production that acknowledges partiality, location, and embodiment.

Feminist Epistemology Science Studies Postmodern Feminism +2
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💭 Theoretical

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

This foundational text of postcolonial feminist theory questions the possibility of Western intellectuals representing the oppressed. Through analyzing colonial discourse on Indian widow immolation (sati), Spivak reveals the imperialist logic of 'white men saving brown women from brown men,' arguing that subaltern women are structurally silenced under the dual oppression of colonialism and patriarchy.

Postcolonial Feminism Decolonial Feminism Subaltern Studies +2
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💭 Theoretical Feminist Review

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

This influential essay critiques Western feminist scholarship that represents Third World women as a monolithic, oppressed group without agency. Mohanty argues that such representations perpetuate colonial discourses and calls for a more nuanced, contextualized understanding of women's experiences across different cultures and geopolitical locations.

Decolonial Feminism Postmodern Feminism Epistemic Colonialism Critique +2
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💭 Theoretical Socialist Review

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Donna Haraway

This influential essay reimagines feminist theory through the metaphor of the cyborg—a hybrid of machine and organism. Haraway critiques traditional boundaries between human and non-human, nature and culture, and proposes a post-gender, post-essentialist feminist politics rooted in affinity, irony, and technological embodiment.

Socialist Feminism Postmodern Feminism Digital Feminism +2
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💭 Theoretical

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

This influential essay critiques exclusionary practices within the feminist movement, arguing that using the tools and methods of oppressive systems to fight oppression is doomed to fail. Lorde calls for recognizing and embracing difference as a source of strength, emphasizing that true liberation requires creating entirely new frameworks rather than seeking reform within existing power structures.

Black Feminism Intersectional Feminism Decolonial Feminism +2
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💭 Theoretical

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

This groundbreaking article critiques Western feminism's discursive construction of 'Third World women,' revealing colonialist tendencies in feminist scholarship. Mohanty demonstrates how Western feminism homogenizes non-Western women as victims, ignoring their agency and diversity, laying the foundation for transnational and decolonial feminist theory.

Postcolonial Feminism Third World Feminism Transnational Feminism +3
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💭 Theoretical Discovering Reality (Synthese Library, vol 161)

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

Nancy C. M. Hartsock

This foundational chapter develops the concept of the feminist standpoint by integrating Marxist theory with feminist epistemology. Hartsock argues that women's experiences—particularly in domestic labor and social reproduction—offer a privileged epistemic position from which to critique dominant knowledge systems and capitalist structures.

Marxist Feminism Epistemic Colonialism Critique Domestic Labor +2
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💭 Theoretical Human Studies

Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality

Iris Marion Young

This groundbreaking 1980 essay analyzes the particularity of feminine bodily experience through a phenomenological lens. Young combines Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body with de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism to explore how patriarchal society shapes women's bodily comportment, movement patterns, and spatial perception, revealing how gendered bodily experience limits women's agency and self-realization.

Phenomenological Feminism Body Politics Gender Socialization +3
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💭 Theoretical Signs

The Laugh of the Medusa

Hélène Cixous

This groundbreaking 1975 essay introduces the concept of 'écriture féminine' (feminine writing), calling for women to reclaim their bodies and desires through writing. Cixous reinterprets the myth of Medusa, transforming her from a monstrous figure into a symbol of feminine power and creativity, challenging patriarchal language systems and advocating for the revolutionary potential of women's writing.

Postmodern Feminism Feminist Literary Criticism Women's Writing +3
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