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.

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.

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

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.

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.

MacGregor critiques the absence of feminist social analysis in climate change research and calls for attention to power, subjectivity, care, consumption, and political agency.

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 connects Native feminism with sovereignty, anti-violence organizing, anti-colonial struggle, and social transformation, challenging separations between feminism and Indigenous nationhood.

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 short intervention is a key starting point for Dalit feminist debate. It argues that Dalit women cannot be represented adequately by either upper-caste feminism or male-dominated Dalit politics, because caste, class, and gender together reshape experience, political organization, and knowledge.