Social MovementsPapers

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.

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.

Sarala Emmanuel and Shreen Saroor document how disabled women in eastern Sri Lanka encounter gender norms, inaccessible services and gaps in violence response, and how collective experience is translated into rights advocacy.

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.

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.

Using 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.

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.

Mervat Hatem maps Arab feminist debates beyond a single program, asking how changing states, generations, movements, and transnational agendas shape the authority to say what women want.

Sherilyn MacGregor argues that climate research cannot be gender-neutral: its framing, everyday effects, and policy responses all require feminist social analysis.

Zakiya Luna analyzes how women of color organizations pushed US reproductive rights organizing from individual choice and legal rights toward an intersectional reproductive justice framework.

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.

This book review discusses 'Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship' edited by Moira Gatens and Alison Mackinnon. Bryson, as a distinguished Australian feminist sociologist, draws from her deep research background in welfare states and gender policy to evaluate the book's analysis of gender dimensions in Australian institutions.

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.

This essay explores how feminism reconstructs development studies and global political economy analysis, proposing alternative theoretical frameworks for understanding the intersections of globalization, development, and gender. Ramamurthy critiques mainstream development discourse and advocates for analytical perspectives centered on social reproduction and women's 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.

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.

Gopal Guru’s 1995 EPW essay links Dalit women’s autonomous organizing to caste-shaped knowledge, gendered exclusion within Dalit politics, and the conditions of feminist solidarity.