Feminist Political and Legal Theories

A Feminist Political Economic Framework

FPE deconstructs and reframes basic neo-liberal assumptions and in the process refocuses economic theory and constructs alternatives. It uses a political economic approach, which is “the study of society as an integrated whole.” This approach identifies and analyzes “social relations as they relate to the economic system of production” (Drache 1978 as quoted in Bezanson and Luxton 2006, 12). A ...

Introduction, Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory

Mind the gap: bridging feminist and political geography through geopolitics

The intersections and conversations between feminist geography and political geography have been surprisingly few. Feminist geographers’ forays into geopolitics and international relations within political geography have been relatively rare compared to their presence and influence in social, cultural, and economic geography. Likewise, only a few political geographers concerned with IR and geop...

Feminist Political Economy : An Introduction PAT ARMSTRONG AND

This issue is about feminist praxis; about the theoretical assumptions that are reflected in women's struggles to improve their conditions and about the implications of these activities for theory. In the early stages of post-war feminism, there was a tendency to think of women as passive victims of their bodies, of their ideas, of men or of capitalism. Increasingly, however, feminists have bee...

Covenant and Feminist Reconstructions of Subjectivity within Theories of Justice