Margaret Fuller: Feminist Theory Years Ahead of Its Time

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: years ahead of her time.

Feminist Sociological Theory

A Critique of Feminist Theory

Objective: Feminism has grown rapidly in the last 40 years as both a multidisciplinary voice advocating for change and an area of scholarship and theorybuilding. A review of empirical articles describes 17 studies that indicate a wide range of applications of feminist theory, but theory is applied primarily as a lens for other issues, rather than to expand theory development. Advocacy and philo...

Light Years Ahead

(continued, page 4) (continued, page 2) Ask the average person where electricity comes from, and he or she is likely to reply, “Out of a wall socket.” Pressed further, they may suggest a thermal or hydroelectric plant as the source, depending on where they live in the country. In response to further probing, some may guess either nuclear power or fossil fuel as the origin. But it would be only ...

Informatics 10 Years Back , 10 Years Ahead

Interpretation is a theory of approximation of the be— havior of dynamic discrete systems such as the formal seman­ tics ofprograms. Since such behaviors can be characterized by fixpoints, the theory essentially provides constructive and ef— fective methods for fixpoint approximation and checking by abstraction. Non—conventionalapplications of abstract interpretation in— clude the design of hie...