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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
02

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
03

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
04

Data Feminism for AI

Klein and D'Ignazio apply the principles of Data Feminism to AI, calling for AI practice grounded in power analysis, intersectionality, co-design, situated knowledge, and refusal of harm.

  • Data Feminism
  • AI Ethics
  • Data Justice
05

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
06

“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
07

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
08

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
09

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 China

This 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
10

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
11

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
12

Indigenous Women Refusing the Violence of Resource Extraction in Oaxaca

A place-based Indigenous feminist analysis showing that mining violence acts on bodies, water, land, and community relations - and that women’s refusal defends this entire web of life.

  • Latin American Feminism
  • Indigenous Feminism
  • Ecofeminism
13

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
14

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
15

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) feminism

This 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
16

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
17

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 Nicaragua

Gonda 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
18

The Carceral Creep

The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expansion of the Punitive State, 1973-1983

A historical study of how gender-based violence reform became entangled with racialized law-and-order politics and punitive state expansion.

  • Carceral Feminism
  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Prison Abolition
19

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
20

From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice

From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to Incarceration

A women-of-color feminist account of anti-violence responses that pursue accountability, repair, and safety without relying on incarceration.

  • Transformative Justice
  • Carceral Feminism
  • Prison Abolition
21

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.

  • AI Ethics
  • Intersectional Feminism
  • Race and Gender
22

Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism

Loretta J. Ross situates reproductive justice in women of color organizing, showing how it connects bodily autonomy, parenting, community safety, human rights, and structural inequality.

  • Reproductive Justice
  • Intersectional Feminism
  • Women of Color Feminism
23

Feminist Data Visualization

D'Ignazio and Klein bring feminist theory into data visualization, proposing ways to redesign data expression around power, affect, embodiment, positionality, and uncertainty.

  • Data Feminism
  • Digital Feminism
  • Data Justice
24

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