Aiming at highlighting the important role of print media discourse in the implicit  transfer of  the dominant ideology of discourse context, the present data-driven paper demonstrates  how the lexical features of repetition and synonymy as well as the structural and thematic features of passivization, nominalization and predicated theme were utilized by the discourse producers to mediate betwee...

We are feminists in our 50s who first became activists in the women’s health movement when we were in our 20s. In 2002 we performed in The Vagina Monologues and participated in the 2002 V-Day College Campaign to end violence against women. We use our experiences bthenQ in the women’s health movement and bnowQ in the College Campaign as a lens through which to introduce a bworryQ about ba cultur...

The question of “why there have been no great women artists,” initiated by Linda Nochlin in 1971, elicits different responses from art domains China. In addition, the notions feminism or feminist criticism, translated English and practiced Chinese artists, create distinct connotations reflective gender conditions. Zhu Xiao, their Feminisms with Characteristics, claim that “Chinese feminisms mus...

Abstract In this article we explore how Swedish citizens perceive security threats, and threat perceptions overlap with ideology, trust demographics. The results show that concerns over threats are foremost connected to an authoritarian outlook. addition, four typical groups of orientations were identified. On the one end spectrum, found group anti-immigrant, anti-feminist anti-egalitarian opin...

This paper argues that the relation between marxism and feminism has, in all the forms it has so far taken, been an unequal one . While both marxist method and feminist analysis are necessary to an understanding of capitalist societies, and of the position of women within them, in fact feminism has consistently been subordinated . The paper presents a challenge to both marxist and radical femin...

How is it possible to construct a narrative and a reflection about contemporary Brazilian feminism for an international event that intends to conduct a review of feminist theory and activism on a global level, by bringing together feminist researchers from several countries? Even if it is necessary to contextualize some of the central features of Brazilian feminism, I will also try not to repro...

As collaborative guest editors, we Roxie Black Hamlin, Kathryn M. Loukas, are delighted to bring you this Jeanette Froehlich, Nancy MacRae landmark issue. Our profession is 93% to 95% female, compelling an examination of the effect of our demographics on occupational therapy. One method of examination is through a feminist perspective. Occupational therapy and feminism share many concepts: cari...

This study content analyzed six brands from Unilever and Procter & Gamble, whose advertisements promoted both male-targeted products and female-targeted ones. The study examined three femaleempowering advertisements and three male-targeted, or “opposition” advertisements. It concluded that companies producing these female-empowering advertisements are not truly supporting the feminism activist ...