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A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies
Noble argues for Black feminist technology studies, showing how search, platforms, and digital infrastructures reproduce racialized and gendered power rather than operating as neutral tools.
- Black Feminist Technology Studies
- Digital Feminism
- Black Feminism
Exploring the Contours of African Sexualities: Religion, Law and Power
Sylvia Tamale analyzes how colonial law, organized religion, nationalism, and contemporary politics manufacture supposedly timeless African sexual norms and police nonconforming bodies.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Queer Theory
Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation
Simpson rethinks education through Nishnaabeg knowledge, centering land, story, embodied practice, relational accountability, and Indigenous resurgence.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Land-Based Education
- Indigenous Sovereignty
Reproductive Justice
Luna and Luker review reproductive justice through law and society scholarship, showing how the framework reshapes research on reproductive rights, health, intersectionality, movements, and state power.
- Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Rights
- Legal Reform
Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy
Arvin, Tuck, and Morrill challenge feminist theory to confront settler colonialism, Indigenous sovereignty, heteropatriarchy, land, and the colonial relations that can be reproduced through knowledge production.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Settler Colonialism
What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions for Arab Feminisms
What do women want? A critical mapping of future directions for Arab FeminismsMervat Hatem maps Arab feminist debates beyond a single program, asking how changing states, generations, movements, and transnational agendas shape the authority to say what women want.
- Arab Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Political Participation
Ecofeminism Revisited
Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist EnvironmentalismGaard responds to anti-essentialist critiques of ecofeminism and argues for retaining its ability to connect gender, race, class, colonialism, species, and environmental justice.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
Virtue and Vulnerability
Virtue and Vulnerability: Discourses on Women, Gender and Climate ChangeArora-Jonsson critiques two recurring climate narratives: women as especially vulnerable and women as naturally more virtuous environmental actors.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Gender Politics
A Stranger Silence Still
A Stranger Silence Still: The Need for Feminist Social Research on Climate ChangeMacGregor critiques the absence of feminist social analysis in climate change research and calls for attention to power, subjectivity, care, consumption, and political agency.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
Love and Gold
Hochschild explains global care chains through the story of a Filipina migrant nanny: wealthy countries receive care while sending communities absorb care drain and emotional displacement.
- Care Economy
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
Introduction to Security Studies: Feminist Contributions
Sjoberg surveys how feminism reshapes security studies by shifting attention from states and war alone to bodies, everyday violence, gender order, wartime sexual violence, and global power.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of US Reproductive Rights Organizing
Zakiya Luna analyzes how women of color organizations pushed US reproductive rights organizing from individual choice and legal rights toward an intersectional reproductive justice framework.
- Reproductive Justice
- Women of Color Feminism
- Reproductive Rights
The Sexual Politics of the New Abolitionism
A key article on how anti-trafficking politics links sexuality, markets, morality, and punitive state power.
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Sex Worker Rights
Eroticism, Sensuality and ‘Women’s Secrets’ Among the Baganda
Sylvia Tamale examines Baganda women’s erotic knowledge as a contested archive shaped by female instruction, colonial morality, religion, commodification, and feminist struggles over pleasure.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Bodily Autonomy
Globalization and the Increase in Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side
Pyle analyzes the growth of transnational care work through globalization and social reproduction, showing how nursing, domestic work, intimate labor, and migration regimes form part of the global economy rather than private arrangements outside it.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Globalization
The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender, and Environment
Drawing on community forestry in Nepal, Nightingale shows gender not as a fixed identity but as a process produced through labor, embodiment, affect, ecological practice, and power.
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- Ecofeminism
Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change
Andrea Smith connects Native feminism with sovereignty, anti-violence organizing, anti-colonial struggle, and social transformation, challenging separations between feminism and Indigenous nationhood.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Feminist Disability Studies
Garland-Thomson maps feminist disability studies as a field, showing how disability reshapes feminist questions about bodies, staring, normalcy, dependency, and public life.
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Disability Justice
- Ableism
The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace
Cockburn places domestic, street, nationalist, military, and postwar gendered violence on a single continuum, challenging the false separation of war/peace and public/private harm.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Militarism
Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way
Obioma Nnaemeka theorizes African feminist agency through negotiation, give-and-take, and the strategic navigation of institutions rather than a universal script of confrontation.
- African Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Decolonial Feminism
Transnational Migration: Bringing Gender In
Pessar and Mahler move migration studies away from neutral accounts of households or labor flows toward a gendered analysis of power, asking how transnational spaces shape resources, obligations, belonging, and agency.
- Migration
- Transnational Feminism
- Gender Politics
As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability
McRuer connects queer theory and critical disability studies, arguing that compulsory able-bodiedness and heteronormativity jointly produce normal bodies, normal desires, and acceptable life.
- Crip Theory
- Ableism
- Disability Justice
Beyond Identity: Feminism, Identity and Identity Politics
This influential 2000 article critiques both Judith Butler's theory of the subject and the practice of identity politics in feminism. Hekman proposes a middle ground between modern and postmodern conceptions of the subject while arguing for removing identity from the political realm entirely. The paper challenges fundamental assumptions about how feminism organizes politically around identity categories.
- Feminist Theory
- Identity Politics
- Postmodern Feminism
But the empress has no clothes! Some awkward questions about the 'missing revolution' in feminist theory
This provocative 2000 article challenges the state of contemporary feminist theory, arguing that while feminist epistemology, methodology and ethics have undergone revolutionary transformation, feminist theory remains trapped within parallel structures to mainstream/malestream social theory. Stanley and Wise call for a fundamental feminist autocritique and the development of feminist metatheory.
- Feminist Theory
- Academic Feminism
- Feminist Literary Criticism