Most feminist theorists over the last forty years have held that a basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group are oppressed. The concept of oppression has never had a very broad meaning in liberal discourse, however, and with the rise of neo-liberalism since 1980 it has even less currency in public debate. This article argues that, while we may still believe women are oppressed, for pragm...

Feminist standpoint theory has a contentious history. It is an explicitly political as well as social epistemology, characterized by the thesis that those who are marginalized or oppressed under conditions of systemic inequity may, in fact, be better knowers, in a number of respects, than those who are socially or economically privileged. Their epistemic advantage arises from the kinds of exper...

There is a growing body of literature on the concept of gender and women empowerment through information and communication technologies. However, there is no considerable effort to investigate how information technology affects feminism movements particularly in eastern countries. Drawn from the findings in the current body of literature and using activity theory, this paper postulates the sign...

There is enough retrospective analyses and harangue pertaining to the field of women's studies that exists to raise the issue of whether or not this academic discipline is in its twilight. Perhaps the essential question involved is to what extent is women's studies still tenable as an institutionalized domain of academic study and what are the existing intellectual premises of the discipline. F...

This article presents conceptual bridges that exist between the philosophy of G.W.F Hegel and a feminist ethics care. To do so, it engages with Slavoj Žižek’s contemporary reading in concert existing interpretations Hegel’s thought. The goal doing so is to demonstrate how both Žižek selection critical thinkers interpret perspective on nature subjectivity, intersubjective relations relationship ...