Patriarchy Critique
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View All →Breaking Free: Why 'Equality' Is a Patriarchal Lie
New book 'Breaking Free' reveals how 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that keeps women and marginalized communities chasing an unattainable goal. True liberation requires not equality, but freedom.
Project 2025: A Dystopian Future for Women's Rights in America
Led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 far-right organizations, 'Project 2025' is an 887-page policy blueprint calling for the deletion of terms like 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from federal regulations. This document is a comprehensive declaration of war on women's rights.
Patriarchy Is Regaining Ground: UN Chief Warns of Unprecedented Threats to Women's Rights
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.
How Feminism Ends?
This article starts from bodily experience to critique contemporary feminism's over-abstraction of 'gender,' exploring the inescapability of the female body, the predicament of gender theory, and the tension between women's freedom and self-exhaustion.
The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity
The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.
South Korea's Gender Gap: The Paradox of Inequality and Backlash
An analysis of South Korea's complex gender landscape, where deep-seated structural inequality coexists with a powerful anti-feminist movement and political shifts that threaten existing protections for women.
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The Feminism Debate: Can Women Really Have It All?
In this episode of 'The Feminism Debate,' psychologist Jordan Peterson and news anchor Megyn Kelly engage in an in-depth dialogue exploring the cultural and psychological impacts of modern feminism, particularly the decline in women's happiness, the suppression of traditional masculinity, and the tension between motherhood and career.
BK Talks. Pedagogies of Feminism
This video is a recording of a panel discussion titled 'Pedagogies of Feminism,' where a panel of speakers from the fields of architecture and urban design share their experiences with feminism. The discussion covers how feminist values can be applied in design, the importance of recognizing the contributions of women, and the need to challenge existing patriarchal and capitalist structures. It also highlights an online platform for feminist spatial practices and discusses the challenges of translating academic theory into professional practice.
An Invitation to All Men: Taking Feminism Further
In this TEDxSydney Youth talk, Hannah Ferguson extends an invitation to all men: to engage more deeply with feminism. She points out that misogyny is not limited to extremists but exists widely among ordinary male populations. The speech explores the growing ideological divide between men and women, calls for redefining the term 'feminism,' and emphasizes that men are also harmed under patriarchy. Ferguson encourages men to move beyond the 'ally or enemy' binary opposition and challenge harmful speech and behavior in private spaces where women are not present through dialogue and education.
stop denying women their autonomy
In this video essay, oliSUNvia critiques the cultural backlash against 'choice feminism' and the rise of stay-at-home girlfriend discourse. She argues that autonomy must include the right to make non-normative or traditionally feminine choices without being dismissed as brainwashed or anti-feminist. Through nuanced commentary and community responses, the video explores the tension between agency, internalized norms, and feminist respect for individual paths.
What is Feminism?: From Beauvoir to Contemporary Controversies
In this episode 'What is Feminism?', Bilibili creator Wild Amber Miss traces the development of feminism in an accessible way, starting from Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought to explore core feminist issues, social misunderstandings, and contemporary controversies. The video combines book reviews, cultural critique, and personal reflection, representing one of the key introductory feminist content pieces in the Chinese context.
Climate action's hidden opportunities for women
In this TED@BCG talk, gender and climate researcher Zineb Sqalli critiques the gender-neutral framing of climate policy and reveals how it often perpetuates inequality. She highlights Vienna’s gender-equal urban planning as a model and calls for climate strategies that intentionally integrate gender equity at every stage.
🎧 Podcasts 17
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Big Bitch Energy
Big Bitch Energy is a feminist podcast hosted by Krystle and Kimber, exploring gender, labor, and cultural issues with socialist leanings and critical humor. The show covers content ranging from sexual harassment in the tech industry, colonialism criticism, body politics, academic patriarchy, social media norms, and gender exclusion in gaming culture. With a sharp, satirical, and left-wing critical style, it represents one of the feminist voices in the Canadian context.
en(gender)ed
en(gender)ed is a podcast hosted by Teri Yuan, focusing on gender violence, oppression mechanisms, and institutional solutions. The show centers on the voices of survivors, advocates, and policymakers, exploring issues such as coercive control, domestic violence, campus sexual assault, gun violence, and media bias, emphasizing intersectional perspectives and cultural literacy. With a profound, systematic style, it serves as an important knowledge platform in the field of gender justice. Spotify rating of 5.0 (3 reviews), representative among gender violence research and advocacy podcasts.
Feminist Current
Feminist Current is a podcast hosted by Canadian journalist Meghan Murphy, focusing on controversial issues within the feminist movement, particularly debates around gender identity, women's spaces, and legal policy. The show approaches from a critical feminist stance, emphasizing women's rights based on biological sex, covering content including Title IX revisions, transgender policy, domestic violence, pornography criticism, and internal left-wing controversies. With a frank and clear-positioned style, it represents an important voice in gender politics debates. Spotify rating of 4.5 (217 reviews), with broad influence among critical feminist podcasts.
Feminist History
Feminist History is a podcast hosted by Maggie Coomer, using creative non-fiction narrative to tell the life stories of historical women figures, focusing on those who challenged norms and advanced gender equality. The show's content covers pioneering women in journalism, mental asylum human rights history, baby placement controversies, and Black women newspaper editors, emphasizing the intersection of historical renarration and cultural memory. Spotify rating of 4.9 (7 reviews), representing exemplary work among feminist history podcasts.
Feminist Hotdog
Feminist Hotdog is a podcast hosted by Adrienne van der Valk, dedicated to finding joy and resistance through feminism. The show focuses on everyday feminist practices, marginalized group experiences, and social justice advocacy, covering content including self-recovery, prison system criticism, gender and mental health, socialist feminism, and far-right political criticism. With an intimate, highly critical style emphasizing voices of women, transgender, and non-binary groups, it represents a warm yet radical presence in American feminist podcasting.
Feminist Inc Pod
Feminist Inc Pod is a podcast hosted by Nigerian feminist Ayo, exploring the real circumstances of Nigerian women through satirical and intimate styles. The show's content covers systemic misogyny, body politics, legal injustices, cultural norms, and media representation, emphasizing Black feminist and intersectional perspectives, representing an independent voice in Nigerian feminist podcasting.
📄 Papers 8
View All →Higamous, hogamous, woman monogamous
This essay critically examines evolutionary psychology's claims about gender differences and mate selection, particularly the popular notion that women are 'naturally monogamous' while men are 'naturally polygamous.' Rees reveals how these scientific narratives serve gender essentialism and how feminism responds to evolutionary psychology's challenges.
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.
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.
Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images
This chapter from Collins’ seminal book *Black Feminist Thought* analyzes the controlling images of Black womanhood in U.S. culture—such as the mammy, matriarch, welfare queen, and jezebel—and how these stereotypes function to justify intersecting systems of race, gender, and class oppression. Collins argues that these images are ideological tools used to regulate Black women’s labor, sexuality, and social roles.
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
This paper challenges the assumption that heterosexuality is the 'natural' sexual orientation for women, arguing that heterosexuality is a political institution imposed upon women.
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
In this seminal essay, Laura Mulvey introduces psychoanalytic theory to film criticism, coining the concept of the 'Male Gaze' to reveal how classical Hollywood cinema constructs images of women around male visual pleasure.