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Thinking Feminism with and against Bourdieu
This groundbreaking article explores the productive tensions between Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of practice and contemporary feminist theory. Lovell critically examines Bourdieu's concept of habitus alongside Judith Butler's theory of performativity, revealing how each approach offers unique insights while harboring distinct limitations for understanding gender, agency, and social transformation. The analysis demonstrates how feminist scholars have creatively appropriated Bourdieu's concepts, particularly cultural capital, to illuminate the intersection of class and gender.
- Feminist Theory
- French Feminism
- Feminist Philosophy
Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement
This revolutionary article proposes a radical solution to persistent gender inequality: the complete elimination of gender categories. Lorber argues that despite significant improvements in women's status, true equality remains elusive because society continues to be organized around binary gender divisions. She calls for a 'feminist degendering movement' that would dismantle the very foundation of gender categorization rather than simply seeking equality within existing structures.
- Feminist Theory
- Gender Identity
- Social Movements
What Counts as Feminist Theory
This essay explores the definitional boundaries and epistemological foundations of feminist theory, questioning what kinds of thinking and practice can be counted as 'theory' and how such distinctions affect feminist academic and political practice. Ermarth examines feminist theory's diversity and inclusivity from a postmodern perspective.
- Feminist Theory
- Postmodern Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Who Counts (or Doesn't Count) What as Feminist Theory?: An Exercise in Dictionary Use
This critical essay examines epistemological boundaries and power relations in academic discourse by investigating how dictionaries define and categorize feminist theory. Winter analyzes which theoretical traditions are included or excluded, and how these choices reflect power dynamics and knowledge politics within feminism.
- Feminist Theory
- Academic Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Erin Brockovich
Based on true events, this film tells the story of single mother Erin Brockovich who, through tenacious will and relentless effort, exposed corporate environmental pollution scandals and fought for justice for victims. The film demonstrates how ordinary women can display extraordinary strength in adversity.
- Economic Empowerment
- Workplace Equality
- Legal Equality
Happening
L'ÉvénementHappening is an autobiographical novella by French Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, documenting her true experience of undergoing an illegal abortion as a university student in 1963. With calm and precise prose, this work transforms a personal bodily experience into a profound reflection on class, gender, and body politics.
- Body Politics
- Women's Health
- Reproductive Rights
Women's Burden: Counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival
Sassen theorizes the feminization of survival, analyzing how debt, restructuring, migration, remittances, and cross-border informal economies shift survival burdens onto poor women.
- Migration
- Globalization
- Transnational Feminism
Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour
Bridget Anderson analyzes how migrant domestic labor is organized by employers, states, and border regimes, exposing the race, class, gender, and citizenship politics behind household work.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
All About Love
Redefining the meaning of love, exploring how love can become the foundation for resisting oppression and building a just society, proposing an ethic of love as the core of social transformation.
- Black Feminism
- Ethics of Care
- Emotional Labor
Feminism is for Everybody
bell hooks' accessible introduction to feminism that articulates the core concepts of feminist thought in clear, simple language, emphasizing that feminism is not just for women but a political movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and sexist oppression that benefits everyone.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Education Equality
Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America
A historical collection on gender, state formation, citizenship, family, law, and power in Latin America.
- Latin American Feminism
- Gender Politics
- Historical Context
Maneuvers
Cynthia Enloe traces how women's lives are militarized through bases, nationalism, labor, marriage, and peacekeeping.
- Militarism
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
No Logo
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand BulliesNaomi Klein's seminal manifesto against corporate globalization analyzes the shift from manufacturing products to marketing brands, exposing the hidden costs of consumer culture on labor rights, public space, and individual choice.
- Consumerism Critique
- Globalization
- Corporate Power
Persepolis
An autobiographical graphic novel depicting the tumultuous years of the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War through the eyes of a young girl. It explores a rebellious spirit seeking freedom, identity struggles, and oppression by state power. A deeply human and powerful record of resilience told through stark black-and-white drawings.
- Women's History
- Women's Literature
- International Context
Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position
Sharmila Rege responds to and extends Gopal Guru's argument, proposing Dalit women's experience as a critical standpoint rather than a fixed boundary of difference. The essay matters for Indian feminism, anti-caste politics, and feminist epistemology.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
A foundational text of the transgender rights movement, exploring the oppressive nature of gender binaries and advocating for the liberation of all gender expressions.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Bodily Autonomy
Mulan
Disney's animated classic 'Mulan' tells the story of ancient Chinese woman Mulan who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army. The film breaks from traditional Disney princess frameworks, creating a brave, independent female character who dares to challenge gender norms.
- Feminist Art
- Bodily Autonomy
- Patriarchy Critique
The Space Between Us
Cynthia Cockburn studies women’s cooperation across Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Bosnia-Hercegovina to understand gender, nationalism, and democratic difference.
- Nationalism
- War and Peace
- Transnational Feminism
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí argues that Western scholarship projected a body-centered gender hierarchy onto Yoruba society, forcing feminist analysis to confront the colonial history of its own categories.
- African Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Gender Politics
African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
This landmark anthology grounds African feminist politics in struggles over land, work, food, health, citizenship, and state power across ten national contexts.
- African Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
- Political Participation
Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
A groundbreaking 1997 Hypatia paper that first systematically explored intersections between ecofeminism and queer theory, arguing inclusive environmental ethics must account for diversity of species, gender, and sexuality.
- Ecofeminism
- Queer Theory
- Queer Feminism
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
Nine labor histories use archives and oral testimony to reconstruct Latin American women workers’ factory lives, household obligations, organizing, and gendered citizenship.
- Latin American Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Economic Justice
Women and Social Movements in Latin America
A comparative account of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Political Participation
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
Sadie Plant’s cyberfeminist writing links weaving, computing, women’s labor, and network culture as a key 1990s digital feminist text.
- Cyberfeminism
- Digital Feminism
- Internet Culture