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Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
The authors trace how queer criminal stereotypes shape policing, courts, and prisons, turning sexuality and gender expression into suspicion.
- Queer Theory
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
Dalit Women Speak Out: Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
Drawing on 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four Indian states, this study traces gendered violence through caste, class, land, and barriers to justice.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Anti-Sexual Violence
A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty
Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan rework Jotiba Phule’s 1873 anti-caste text as a graphic argument about caste, literacy, Savitribai, and the politics of representation.
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Art
- Historical Context
The Queer Art of Failure
Halberstam challenges success standards in heteronormative capitalist society, exploring the productive potential of failure as a form of resistance. Through analysis of popular culture and queer theory, the author proposes ‘low theory’ as a mode of thinking and writing, redefining failure not as deficiency but as a strategy for subverting mainstream values.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Capitalism Critique
Thinking Out Loud About Feminism
Through a fictional roundtable dialogue, this article explores the diverse perspectives, internal tensions, and the profound impact of race, class, and gender identity on contemporary feminism.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Gender Equality
- Queer Theory
Gender and Coloniality
Género y colonialidad: en busca de claves de lectura y de un vocabulario estratégico descolonialA domestic-violence workshop in Brazil leads Segato to ask who sets the terms of research, who can represent a community, and how deliberation at home becomes private.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Gender Roles
The Bangkok Rules
The Bangkok Rules address searches, reproductive health, children and noncustodial measures, while leaving open the political question of imprisonment itself.
- Carceral Feminism
- Human Rights
- Motherhood
General Recommendation No. 27 on older women
CEDAW connects pensions, unpaid care, inheritance and health with inequalities accumulated across life, challenging the portrayal of older women as merely dependent.
- Care Economy
- Human Rights
- Policy Research
This isn't her mother's feminism
In this TEDWomen talk, Courtney E. Martin reflects on the evolving meaning of feminism across generations. Through personal narrative and cultural critique, she explores three paradoxes that define her generation’s feminist identity, emphasizing the tension between tradition and innovation, idealism and pragmatism.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Cultural Critique
- Identity Formation
Women, Wartime and the Dream of Peace
Zainab Salbi redirects attention from war’s front line to the women who maintain daily life, survive gendered violence, and are then excluded from formal peace negotiations.
- Arab Feminism
- War and Peace
- Ethics of Care
Misogyny
女ぎらい：ニッポンのミソジニーMisogyny is a major work by Japanese sociologist and feminist scholar Chizuko Ueno. The book deeply analyzes the pervasive phenomenon of misogyny in Japanese society, revealing how it exists in various hidden forms within families, workplaces, romantic relationships, and even within women's own consciousness. It is essential reading for understanding the mechanisms of misogyny in East Asian patriarchal societies.
- Feminist Theory
- Patriarchy Critique
- Gender Norms
The Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists
Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter links bodily autonomy and material rights to feminist organizations’ accountability and shared leadership.
- African Feminism
- Social Movements
- Political Participation
On Black Sisters' Street
A powerful novel by the Nigerian-born author following the lives of four African women working in Antwerp's red-light district. Driven to Europe by poverty, betrayal, and a longing for a better life, they seek to reclaim their identities and find new solidarity amidst cold realities.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- Poverty and Justice
Gender, War, and Militarism
Edited by Laura Sjoberg and Sandra E. Via, these seventeen feminist essays examine how military institutions, wartime violence, peacebuilding, and public memory reproduce gendered power.
- Feminist Security Studies
- Militarism
- War and Peace
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
A. Revathi’s autobiography records gender, family expulsion, labor, survival, and dignity in hijra communities, bringing South Asian trans experience into feminist mapping.
- Queer Theory
- Caste and Gender
- Trans Feminism
Our Steps Come from Far Away
Nossos passos vêm de longe! Movimentos de mulheres negras e estratégias políticas contra o sexismo e o racismoJurema Werneck follows the title Ialodê from Yoruba public life to Afro-Brazilian associations and sets those histories beside domestic workers’ organizing. The article asks how Black women gained resources, represented one another, and changed the political practices they inherited.
- Black Feminism
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
Nimo's War, Emma's War
Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq WarCynthia Enloe reads the Iraq War through eight Iraqi and American women, showing how gender shapes security, work, military service, and care - and why its costs continue after combat fades from view.
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
- Imperialism Critique
Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
From a family’s testimony in Ciudad Juárez to the Cotton Field judgment, this anthology asks how gendered violence is documented and how states are held accountable.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights
Abortion in Brazil: A Household Survey Using the Ballot Box Technique
Aborto no Brasil: uma pesquisa domiciliar com técnica de urnaBrazil’s 2010 survey uses confidential questionnaires to study abortion experience, distinguishing lifetime reports from annual incidence and procedure counts.
- Reproductive Justice
- Research Methods
- Bodily Autonomy
Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon’s anthology traces four decades of women’s organizing, citizenship struggles, and feminist politics across Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Latin American Feminism
- Political Participation
- Social Justice
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
A raw and powerful record of a girl growing up amidst poverty, violence, and rigid social expectations in Jamaica, winning her freedom through poetry and her own voice. It reveals the truth behind the illusion of 'paradise' while exploring biracial identity, sexuality, and the reclamation of self.
- Women's Literature
- Race and Gender
- Intersectional Feminism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander argues that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration rebuild racial caste through formally colorblind law.
- Prison Abolition
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
Community Feminism through Body and Land
Cabnal connects land defense with bodily autonomy while challenging internal patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality and idealized ancestral traditions.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Body Politics
Gender Dimensions of Agricultural and Rural Employment
A joint FAO, IFAD and ILO report asks how gender shapes paid and unpaid work on and off farms - and what decent rural employment requires.
- Labor Rights
- Gender Equality
- Economic Justice