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Ecofeminism Revisited: Rejecting Essentialism and Re-Placing Species in a Material Feminist Environmentalism
Greta Gaard revisits ecofeminism’s contested history, distinguishing necessary critiques of gender essentialism from the wholesale dismissal of a tradition that linked 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 ChangeSeema Arora-Jonsson uses Indian and Swedish policy and forestry cases to ask who gets called vulnerable or virtuous, and who gets to make rules.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Gender Politics
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
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
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
The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence
Anna Aizer uses California data from 1990 - 2003 to estimate how relative wage opportunities relate to women’s hospital admissions for assault.
- Gender Pay Gap
- Violence Against Women
- Feminist Economics
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
An Indian quota study separates recognition of women leaders' competence from liking them, showing why reduced bias need not mean prejudice has disappeared.
- Political Participation
- Gender Stereotypes
- Policy Research
A Stranger Silence Still: The Need for Feminist Social Research on Climate Change
Sherilyn MacGregor argues that climate research cannot be gender-neutral: its framing, everyday effects, and policy responses all require feminist social analysis.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
Love and Gold
Two wages paid across borders and a mother’s calls to her daughter give Hochschild ways to ask who buys care time and how families sustain intimacy at a distance.
- 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
Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History
Fraser asks how feminist critiques of the family wage and state power could be repurposed to legitimate insecure work and neoliberal reform.
- Feminist Economics
- Capitalism Critique
- Care Economy
From Rights to Justice: Women of Color Changing the Face of US Reproductive Rights Organizing
Luna follows SisterSong through its newsletter and a march negotiation to see how immigrant rights and parenting entered a U.S. reproductive agenda.
- Reproductive Justice
- Women of Color Feminism
- Reproductive Rights
Coloniality and Gender
Colonialidad y géneroLugones asks how colonial rule constituted gender itself, and why anticolonial struggles can still disregard violence against women within their communities.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Postcolonial Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
New Configurations of the Sexual Division of Labor
Novas configurações da divisão sexual do trabalhoHirata and Kergoat distinguish separation from hierarchy, showing why delegating domestic work to another woman may preserve its gendered allocation.
- Domestic Labor
- Care Economy
- Class Analysis
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
A Phenomenology of Whiteness
Sara Ahmed examines whiteness as institutional habit: whose body moves comfortably, whose arrival requires explanation, and whose criticism is dismissed?
- Race and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
- Academic Patriarchy Critique
Postcolonial Critique from Antiracist Feminist Practices
Crítica poscolonial desde las prácticas políticas del feminismo antirracistaCuriel traces how antiracist feminist organizing produces theory and changes who counts as a maker of postcolonial knowledge.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Intersectional Feminism
Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?
Correll, Benard and Paik use two matched studies to trace the motherhood penalty from evaluations of candidates to the chances of getting an interview.
- Workplace Equality
- Motherhood Critique
- Gender Pay Gap
Eroticism, Sensuality and ‘Women’s Secrets’ Among the Baganda
Sylvia Tamale follows the Baganda institution of Ssenga from a paternal aunt’s instruction to paid services, radio programs and public debate in Kampala.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Bodily Autonomy
Globalization and the Increase in Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side
Jean L. Pyle follows rest days, remittances and Philippine migration policy to ask who receives care when someone travels abroad to provide it.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Globalization
The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender, and Environment
Andrea J. Nightingale examines how gender is made through forestry labor, ecological rules, and unequal authority in a community-forestry case from western Nepal.
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
- Ecofeminism
Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
School rugby, bodily risk and long working hours help Connell and Messerschmidt explain how a form of masculinity gains authority and how it can change.
- Gender Roles
- Power Dynamics
- Political Consciousness
Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change
Andrea Smith’s 2005 essay challenges the feminist/nonfeminist binary and asks how Native women’s diverse political frameworks make sovereignty central to debates about gender justice.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Feminist Disability Studies
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson reads disability writing, reproductive experience and debates about care to show how social norms turn bodily difference into exclusion.
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Disability Justice
- Ableism