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Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics
This paper proposes leveraging insights from feminist economics, empirical research, and the capabilities approach to expand understanding of abortion beyond an individual act and the moment of choice, thereby providing a ground to integrate the reproductive justice framework into economics.
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Feminist Economics
- Reproductive Justice
Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Feminism: Empowering Women Through Digital Literacy
This paper investigates the interplay between gender bias in AI systems and the potential of digital literacy to empower women in technology. Synthesizing research from 2010-2024, it examines how gender bias manifests in AI and the effectiveness of digital literacy initiatives.
- Digital Feminism
- Algorithmic Bias
- Artificial Intelligence
Translating the Feminist Theory of Intersectionality into Gender Analytical Frameworks for Gender and Development
This paper explores how to translate intersectional feminist theory into practical gender analytical frameworks (GAF) for development interventions, warning against turning intersectionality into a simple instrument stripped of its theoretical and methodological nuances.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Development Studies
- Feminist Epistemology
Data Feminism for AI
Klein and D’Ignazio bring data feminism into AI research, using tenant screening, feminist data activism, and hidden annotation labor to examine power, consent, and environmental costs.
- Data Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Data Justice
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy
Anna Moser places Wages for Housework and the contemporary self-care industry in one political-economic history, showing how capitalism privatizes reproduction and resells individual solutions.
- Care Economy
- Domestic Labor
- Capitalism Critique
“Like Seeking Out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering Pioneer Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave
Roxanne Douglas reconstructs journals, salons, correspondence, and organizing across Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon to place Arab feminist networks inside - not after or outside - the history of feminism’s first wave.
- Arab Feminism
- Women's History
- Transnational Feminism
The Feminization of Resistance: The Narratives of #NiUnaMenos as Social Transformative Action
A narrative study of Ni Una Menos as more than a protest against femicide: a plural political practice seeking to transform precarious life, relationships, knowledge, and solidarity.
- Latin American Feminism
- Social Movements
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Unsettling Feminism in Social Work: Toward an Indigenous Decolonial Feminism
This research critically examines how feminism and social work have historically participated in colonial projects, perpetuating structural violence rooted in white supremacy. The author proposes an Indigenous decolonial feminist framework, emphasizing that social work should reorient its justice goals toward collective liberation and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
- Decolonial Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Female and Feminism: Gender Politics in Art History and Responses in the Chinese Context
Female and feminism: a historical overview of women and art in ChinaThis paper explores the multifaceted responses from the Chinese art world to Linda Nochlin's famous 1971 question 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' The author analyzes how feminist art criticism has been translated and practiced in China, and drawing on the theory of 'feminism with Chinese characteristics' proposed by Zhu and Xiao, emphasizes the non-binary nature of gender politics within specific historical contexts.
- Chinese Feminist Movement
- Feminist Art
- Cultural Critique
Intersectional Feminist Theory as a Non-Ideal Theory: Asian American Women Navigating Identity and Power
This philosophical examination argues that intersectional feminism functions as a strong version of non-ideal theory, focusing on the multiply oppressed to understand how intersecting structures of oppression work and generate strategies for dismantling them. Through analyzing Asian American women's experiences navigating identity and power, the paper reveals three characteristic types of identity-power relationships: manifestation of oppression through identity construction, reproduction of oppression, and creation of resistance and solidarity through identity reconstruction.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Asian American Feminism
- Political Philosophy
An Overview on the Feminism and Its Categories
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of feminism’s historical development, ideological foundations, and categorical variants. Mohajan traces the evolution of feminist thought from early movements to contemporary debates, highlighting key challenges and future directions for global gender justice.
- Feminism
- Liberal Feminism
- Radical Feminism
Indigenous Women Refusing the Violence of Resource Extraction in Oaxaca
A case study of Zapotec women in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, tracing how mining reshapes land, water, and community life - and how refusal sustains relations beyond extraction.
- Latin American Feminism
- Indigenous Feminism
- Ecofeminism
Feminist Mobilization and the Abortion Debate in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina
A mixed-method study showing that Argentina’s abortion debate became politically possible through feminist organization and framing, rather than waiting for favorable opinion, secularization, or party leadership.
- Latin American Feminism
- Reproductive Justice
- Social Movements
Rights, Democracy, and Islamist Women’s Activism in Tunisia and Egypt
This comparative study examines how Islamist women in Tunisia and Egypt articulated rights and democratic participation after the Arab uprisings rather than assuming their politics from party labels alone.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Political Participation
A Very Basic View of Feminism: Feminist Girls and Meanings of (Celebrity) Feminism
A very basic view of feminism: feminist girls and meanings of (celebrity) feminismThis paper explores young women's understanding of feminism, particularly their perspectives on celebrity feminism. The research finds that while celebrity feminism is often criticized as superficial and lacking intersectional perspectives, it plays an important role as a 'gateway' or 'starting point' for attracting and guiding young girls to engage with and deepen their understanding of feminism.
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Pop Culture Feminism
Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa
Drawing on fifty-one surveys, Glas and Alexander test the assumption that religious commitment and support for women’s rights are inherently opposed across Arab Muslim publics.
- Arab Feminism
- Religion and Gender
- Gender Politics
Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate
Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate: The Potential of Feminist Political Ecology to Engage with Power in Action in Adaptation Policies and Projects in NicaraguaGonda uses climate adaptation in Nicaragua to show how feminist political ecology can return power, emotion, subjectivity, and politics to gender and climate policy.
- Climate Justice
- Feminist Political Ecology
- Environmental Justice
The Carceral Creep
The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expansion of the Punitive State, 1973-1983Using the U.S. anti-domestic-violence movement of 1973 - 1983, Mimi E. Kim traces how collaboration with law enforcement reshaped movement autonomy and how gendered, racialized, and classed narratives legitimated punitive policy.
- Carceral Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Prison Abolition
Gender, migration and care deficits: what role for the sustainable development goals?
This article connects women's migration, care deficits, and the Sustainable Development Goals, asking how global policy frameworks can respond to care responsibilities displaced across borders.
- Migration
- Care Economy
- Development Studies
From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice
From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to IncarcerationMimi E. Kim traces how U.S. feminist anti-violence politics became entangled with criminalization - and how women-of-color feminist movements developed restorative and transformative alternatives.
- Transformative Justice
- Carceral Feminism
- Prison Abolition
Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
A groundbreaking 2018 FAccT study revealing severe bias in commercial facial recognition systems against darker-skinned women, with error rates up to 34.7% compared to just 0.8% for lighter-skinned males.
- Data Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Intersectional Feminism
Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism
Loretta J. Ross frames reproductive justice as Black feminist movement praxis: three linked rights, material conditions, and the risks of separating reproductive choice from race and power.
- Reproductive Justice
- Intersectional Feminism
- Women of Color Feminism
Feminist Data Visualization
D’Ignazio and Klein turn feminist epistemology into questions for visualization design: how categories, visual form, participation, context, and labor shape whose knowledge becomes legible.
- Data Feminism
- Digital Feminism
- Data Justice
Ending Violence against Women in Latin America: Feminist Norm Setting in a Multilevel Context
A study of feminist norm-making from resistance under dictatorship to the Belém do Pará Convention, focused on the persistent gap between regional commitments and state practice.
- Latin American Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Human Rights