Feminism – difficult conversation

12th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference: Breastfeeding as Social Justice: From Crucial Conversation to Inspired Action.

Public health efforts to protect, promote and support breastfeeding are based on the central argument that breastfeeding is the healthiest way of feeding and nurturing infants. Although supported by abundant scientific research, this core message has offered an insufficient framework for successful breastfeeding advocacy, practice and policy. If we are to increase breastfeeding rates around the...

Has Feminism Changed Physics?

Looking for Feminism

In a recent talk given at a North American University, a prominent feminist scholar from the United States observed that the contributions of Black women in mass political movements have been given short shrift in both conventional male-centred narratives of revolutionary movements (such as the Black Power movement in the USA), and mainstream feminist accounts of women’s activism, because inter...

Feminism and Psychology

Starting in the 1960s, feminists argued that the discipline of psychology had neglected the study of women and gender and misrepresented women in its research and theories. Feminists also posed many questions worthy of being addressed by psychological science. This call for research preceded the emergence of a new and influential body of research on gender and women that grew especially rapidly...

From Marxism to Feminism