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Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios
A collective work of Latina feminist testimonios that links life writing, knowledge production, academia, and survival.
- Latina Feminism
- Feminist Education
- Knowledge Production
Legally Blonde
A groundbreaking comedy film where Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods challenges stereotypes about blonde women. This 2001 film deeply explores female intelligence, workplace discrimination, and multiple facets of feminism through the story of a fashion-conscious girl entering Harvard Law School.
- Media Representation Critique
- Education Equality
- Female Friendship
Nickel and Dimed
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaJournalist Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States, revealing the brutal reality of low-wage labor and the struggle for survival.
- Labor Rights
- Economic Empowerment
- Capitalism Critique
Radical Women in Latin America
An edited volume on women's participation in revolutionary, leftist, and radical politics across Latin America.
- Latin American Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- Social Movements
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
Feminist Epistemology and Value
This 2000 article by Alison Assiter develops a distinctive approach to feminist epistemology centered on the concepts of 'emancipatory values' and 'epistemic communities.' Assiter argues that knowledge production is fundamentally shaped by the values of the communities in which it occurs, and that feminist epistemology should focus on creating communities whose values promote emancipation rather than oppression. The paper offers a modernist feminist epistemology that is collective rather than individualist, value-centered rather than value-neutral.
- Feminist Theory
- Academic Feminism
- Feminist Literary Criticism
Book Review: Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship
This book review discusses 'Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship' edited by Moira Gatens and Alison Mackinnon. Bryson, as a distinguished Australian feminist sociologist, draws from her deep research background in welfare states and gender policy to evaluate the book's analysis of gender dimensions in Australian institutions.
- Feminist Economics
- Gender Politics
- Feminist Theory
Gender's Nature: Intersexuality, Transsexualism and the 'Sex'/'Gender' Binary
This groundbreaking article challenges the fundamental distinction between 'sex' and 'gender' by demonstrating that 'sex' itself is a social construction. Through examining intersexuality and transsexualism as embodied experiences that disrupt binary categories, Hird reveals how medical and social institutions work to maintain artificial divisions. The paper questions whether emphasizing sexual difference or exposing sex as construction better serves feminist goals for social transformation.
- Queer Theory
- Gender Identity
- Trans Feminism
Higamous, hogamous, woman monogamous
This essay critically examines evolutionary psychology's claims about gender differences and mate selection, particularly the popular notion that women are 'naturally monogamous' while men are 'naturally polygamous.' Rees reveals how these scientific narratives serve gender essentialism and how feminism responds to evolutionary psychology's challenges.
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
- Gender Norms
Pure tolerance revisited
This radical feminist theoretical article revisits the place of tolerance in feminist theory, critically responding to the pluralist stance advocated by the inaugural issue of Feminist Theory journal. Drawing on Herbert Marcuse's theory of 'repressive tolerance', Thompson argues that unlimited tolerance provides shelter for patriarchal and anti-feminist viewpoints, thereby undermining feminism's core as a liberatory politics. She contends that feminism must maintain intolerance toward male domination to preserve its theoretical coherence and political efficacy.
- Feminist Theory
- Radical Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Reconceiving Citizenship: The Challenge of Mothers as Political Activists
An exploration of how mothers as political activists challenge traditional conceptions of citizenship. Reiger examines maternal activism in Australian childbirth reform movements, arguing that mothers' claims for participation in health policy reconceive citizenship to include care, embodiment, and community advocacy.
- Feminist Theory
- Political Participation
- Ethics of Care
Aspiring to a politics of alliance: Response to Sylvia Walby's 'Beyond the politics of location: The power of argument in a global era'
This response essay explores tensions between universalism and politics of location in feminist theory, responding to Walby's claims about making universal arguments across local differences. Phoenix, from an intersectional perspective, advocates for alliance politics built on acknowledging difference rather than abstract universalism.
- Feminist Theory
- Intersectional Feminism
- Identity Politics
Being reasonable, telling stories
This essay explores the relationship between rational argumentation and narrative knowledge in feminist theory, questioning traditional oppositions between theory and story, abstract and concrete, argument and narration. Felski argues that narrative is not the opposite of rationality but an important mode of feminist knowledge production, and the two should be seen as complementary rather than opposed.
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Feminist Epistemology
Beyond the Politics of Location: The Power of Argument in a Global Era
This 2000 article by leading feminist sociologist Sylvia Walby challenges the dominance of standpoint epistemology and the 'politics of location' in feminist theory. Walby argues that in an era of globalization, feminism needs to move beyond location-based knowledge claims and embrace the power of reasoned argument to make effective universal claims about gender justice. The paper engages critically with postmodern and postcolonial feminist theories that privilege particular standpoints over universal reasoning.
- Feminist Theory
- Postmodern Feminism
- Academic Feminism
In search of feminist theory
This essay is Walby's response to critiques from Phoenix, Knapp, and others, further elaborating her position that feminism needs robust theorization and universal claims. Walby argues that in the era of globalization, feminism cannot be limited to politics of location but needs to develop theoretical frameworks capable of analyzing systemic oppression across local boundaries.
- Feminist Theory
- Global Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Indexing alternatives: Feminist development studies and global political economy
This essay explores how feminism reconstructs development studies and global political economy analysis, proposing alternative theoretical frameworks for understanding the intersections of globalization, development, and gender. Ramamurthy critiques mainstream development discourse and advocates for analytical perspectives centered on social reproduction and women's agency.
- Marxist Feminism
- Feminist Economics
- Development Studies
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor
Parreñas's classic article makes global care chains concrete through migrant Filipina domestic workers, showing how care crises in middle-class households are displaced onto women from the Global South while creating new care gaps in sending communities.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
More Power to Argument
This essay responds to Sylvia Walby's claim that feminism needs to move beyond politics of location toward universal arguments. Knapp, drawing from German Critical Theory and feminist traditions, explores the power of argument while warning against power relations that abstract universalism might mask, advocating for argumentative practice that is both critically powerful and acknowledges situatedness.
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Epistemology
- Critical Theory
Re-reading the Second Sex: Theorizing the Situation
This essay re-evaluates Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical contributions in The Second Sex, particularly her theorization of the concept of 'situation.' Stavro argues that Beauvoir was not merely a follower of Sartre but critically transformed existentialism through embodied, situated subjectivity, establishing a unique foundation for feminist theory.
- Existentialist Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Philosophy
Thinking Through Breasts: Writing Maternity
A groundbreaking exploration of how maternal embodiment, particularly breastfeeding, transforms academic writing and knowledge production. Bartlett develops an 'epistemology of breasts' that challenges traditional boundaries between personal experience and scholarly practice.
- Feminist Theory
- Body Politics
- Academic Feminism
Writing trash: Truth and the sexual outlaw's reinvention of lesbian identity
This essay analyzes Dorothy Allison's short story collection 'Trash' to explore how 'sexual outlaws' use truth discourse to establish legitimate subject positions within lesbian feminism. Kennedy examines how sexually radical lesbians challenge cultural feminism's normative definitions of lesbian identity and the complex intersections of class, sexuality, and truth.
- Lesbian Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Literary Criticism
Book Review: Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence
This book review discusses Hilaire Barnett's 'Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence'. Scoular, as a feminist legal scholar at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, evaluates the book's coverage of major issues in feminist jurisprudence as a student textbook, and its analysis of how traditional jurisprudence and law remain masculine subjects despite the vast strides in formal legal equality.
- Feminist Theory
- Legal Equality
- Gender Politics
Protesting like a Girl: Embodiment, Dissent and Feminist Agency
This 2000 article examines feminist agency through the lens of embodiment, drawing on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to analyze the British suffragette movement. Parkins focuses on Mary Leigh's suffragette career to argue that corporeal performance - the strategic use of women's bodies in daring protests - constituted a powerful form of feminist political agency that contested the boundaries of citizenship and the political domain.
- Feminist Theory
- Body Politics
- Social Movements