Feminist movement, feminist theory and citizenship

Feminist theory, feminist and anti-racist politics, and restorative justice

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Feminist Theory and Survey Research

Over the past three decades, feminist methodologists have hammered home one point with surprising regularity: Feminist research takes a variety of legitimate forms; there is no “distinctive feminist method of research” (Harding, 1987; see also Chafetz, 2004a, 2004b; Fonow & Cook, 2005; Hawkesworth, 2006; Hesse-Biber, 2007; Risman, Sprague, & Howard, 1993; and Sprague, 2005). And yet, to this da...

Feminist Sociological Theory

Four Nightwood and Feminist Theory

Characteristics of feminist theatre As we have seen in previous chapters, at its inception Nightwood participated in a widespread English-language women's theatre movement that had already been well established in the United States and Britain. As Phyllis Mael points out in an article about American feminist theatre published in Chrysalis magazine in April 1980, over two hundred plays by women ...