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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
Orchestrating Impartiality
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female MusiciansGoldin and Rouse follow screens, carpeting and candidate numbers through US orchestras to see how each round of an audition changes what judges can know.
- Workplace Equality
- Arts and Performance
- Research Methods
Aspiring to a politics of alliance: Response to Sylvia Walby's 'Beyond the politics of location: The power of argument in a global era'
Ann Phoenix’s reply to Sylvia Walby reframes a debate about feminist knowledge around a political question: how can collective claims cross difference without flattening it?
- Feminist Theory
- Intersectional Feminism
- Identity Politics
Being reasonable, telling stories
In a 2000 feminist-theory exchange, Rita Felski broadly agrees with Sylvia Walby while questioning how Walby characterizes Donna Haraway and Iris Marion Young.
- 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
Sylvia Walby replies to Felski, Phoenix and Knapp by asking what stories can persuade people to do, what a theory explains and how claims about inequality can be tested across contexts.
- Feminist Theory
- Global Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Indexing alternatives: Feminist development studies and global political economy
Priti Ramamurthy maps feminist debates over development through six books. Companion readings trace agricultural work, basic needs and the cotton commodity chain.
- Marxist Feminism
- Feminist Economics
- Development Studies
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor
Parreñas follows Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles as they earn wages abroad, hire help in the Philippines and keep ties with family.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
More Power to Argument
Axeli Knapp tests how Walby connects argument, difference and action. This guide follows the dispute into the practical problem of comparing concepts across contexts.
- Feminist Theory
- Feminist Epistemology
- Critical Theory
Re-reading the Second Sex: Theorizing the Situation
Elaine Stavro rereads The Second Sex through the concept of situation. This reading guide connects Beauvoir’s account of concrete opportunities to differences in what people can do under the same law.
- 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
Kathleen Kennedy reads Dorothy Allison’s Trash to ask how lesbians excluded by prevailing sexual norms claimed the right to speak, and what happened when they claimed a truer account of lesbian life.
- Lesbian Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Feminist Literary Criticism
Book Review: Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence
Jane Scoular reviews Hilaire Barnett’s feminist jurisprudence textbook. Start with the book’s examples of abortion debates and provocation before turning to the review.
- 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
In the first issue of Feminist Theory, Elizabeth Ermarth asks what women learn about competing with one another and what theory can do to those relations.
- Feminist Theory
- Postmodern Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
Who Counts (or Doesn't Count) What as Feminist Theory?: An Exercise in Dictionary Use
Bronwyn Winter starts with the dictionary’s account of theory and asks why readers encounter such different terms when they look up feminism.
- Feminist Theory
- Academic Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
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
Gender and Race
Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?Haslanger distinguishes three projects of definition, then traces how bodily markers are used to assign and sustain social positions of gender and race.
- Gender Identity
- Race and Gender
- Power Dynamics
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
Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position
In this 1998 EPW essay, Sharmila Rege asks how Dalit women's situated experience can become collective feminist knowledge without turning identity into either silence or an unquestionable credential.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Epistemology
Nepotism and Sexism in Peer Review
Nepotism and sexism in peer-reviewWennerås and Wold follow competence scores, journal measures and reviewer ties. A later reanalysis shows why the way those records are compared matters.
- Academic Patriarchy Critique
- Research Methods
- Gender Discrimination