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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
The Gleaners and I
Les Glaneurs et la GlaneuseVarda connects discarded food, her aging body and digital filming, asking who defines value and why intimacy must still acknowledge unequal power.
- Feminist Film Criticism
- Ageism and Gender
- Consumerism Critique
Maternity Protection Convention, No. 183
The ILO’s 2000 convention links leave with income, health, return to work and nursing time, while asking how funding can avoid making maternity an individual hiring cost.
- Reproductive Rights
- Labor Rights
- Care Economy
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
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
Wide Sargasso Sea
Nearly 200 years after Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was published, it has quite rightly earned the status of a classic feminist novel. If Jane Eyre is a classic, then Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - the 1966 novel that gives life to the abandoned woman in Brontë's story - is a masterpiece. By re-examining the character of Bertha Rochester and imagining her life before the events of the original novel, Rhys gives agency and dignity to literature's archetypal 'madwoman in the attic'.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Women's Literature
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
Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America
Edited by Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, this Latin American history collection traces how property, civic ritual, war, and family policy reshaped women’s rights and state power.
- Latin American Feminism
- Gender Politics
- Historical Context
Women's Burden: Counter-geographies of Globalization and the Feminization of Survival
Saskia Sassen links migrant women's cross-border work and remittances to debt, restructuring, and overlooked circuits of globalization, while acknowledging that the evidence is partial.
- 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
Maneuvers
Cynthia Enloe traces militarization through consumer culture, military labor, family life, and nationalism, asking how gender makes these ties seem ordinary.
- Militarism
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
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
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
bell hooks argues that feminism must center poor women and women of color and transform, not merely gain acceptance within, institutions shaped by race, class, and gender.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Second Wave Feminism
Parable of the Sower
Almost any Octavia E. Butler novel is feminist required reading: her Afrofuturistic science fiction published between 1976 and 2005 offers visionary explorations of new worlds and eternal ethical dilemmas. We recommend starting with 'Parable of the Sower,' the first novel in Butler's post-apocalyptic Earthseed duology.
- Black Feminism
- Ecofeminism
- Climate Justice
Sexual Politics
Kate Millett's groundbreaking doctoral thesis turned manifesto, Sexual Politics, established patriarchy as a political institution and is considered one of the foundational texts of second-wave feminism and feminist literary criticism.
- Political Critique
- Patriarchy
- Feminist Theory
Gender and Race
Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?Haslanger distinguishes projects of definition and proposes a structural account of gender and race, testing its political purpose against objections and exclusions.
- Gender Identity
- Race and Gender
- Power Dynamics
The Day I Became a Woman
Roozi ke zan shodamMeshkini’s three stories make girlhood, marriage and old age into a social timetable governing women’s movement, friendship, money and freedom.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Ageism and Gender
- Family
Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women’s Empowerment
Kabeer connects resources, agency and outcomes to ask when an indicator measures expanded life choices rather than a project’s visible outputs.
- Economic Empowerment
- Feminist Economics
- Research Methods
The Golden Notebook
The most famous 1962 experimental novel by 2007 Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, telling the then-unspeakable facts: women as beings with sexual desires, who suffer from mental illness, who struggle, who climax, who menstruate. Through the perspective of writer Anna trying to integrate her life experiences and creative notes into a unified whole, Lessing explores the unbeautiful aspects of women's lives with love, anger, and a frankness almost unheard of among women writers at the time.
- Second Wave Feminism
- Women's Writing
- Women's Literature