For nearly two decades writers on the psychology of women have questioned what they have taken to be the male bias in traditional definitions of psychological health and development. In 1970 Broverman et al. charted the terms of what was to become the new feminist critique: their findings showed that clinicians implicitly associated psychological maturity and health with stereotypical male char...

There continues to be increasing evidence of the prevalence and growing impact of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among United States male veterans, as well as pressing concerns related to treatment engagement in mental health services for these individuals. As researchers have advocated for modifications to treatment approaches in the provision of mental health services among this unique ...

This intervention draws from and contributes to feminist and queer responses to Brenner and Schmid’s planetary urbanization thesis. I argue there is a lot to value in their call for alternative and politicized urban studies research pathways, especially their critique of urban age discourse, a body of work that defines cities as static sites of ‘innovation’, ‘creativity’ and ‘sustainability’. H...

In this article, Dolores Delgado Bernal outlines a Chicana feminist epistemological framework that is new to the field of educational research. This framework, which draws from the existing work of Chicana feminists, questions the notions of objectivity and a universal foundation of knowledge. A Chicana feminist epistemology is also grounded in the life experiences of Chicanas and involves Chic...

To what extent can Amartya Sen’s ideas on freedom, especially his conceptualization of development as freedom, enrich feminist economics? Sen’s notion of freedom (as the capability to achieve valued ends) has many attractions and provides important opportunities to analyze gender inequalities. At the same time, Sen’s recent emphasis on freedom as the dominant value in judging individual well-be...

The predominance of patriarchally-based structures in Kristeva’s work sets up an uncomfortable dichotomy for feminist critics. Her 1979 essay ‘Le temps des femmes’ (translated as ‘Women’s Time’ in 1981) most explicitly articulates her own approach to feminism, addressing women’s troubled relationship to patriarchy in terms of time and space. Kristeva identifies three distinct positions in femin...

islamic feminism and the feminist movement that has influenced the west in recent decades have spread in muslim countries, including iran, to such an extent that most supporters of women`s rights introduce themselves as muslim feminist and try to present a new comment of traditional and original understanding of islamic teachings in harmony with their claims. the most important foundations of i...

This paper explores the racism of mainstream feminism and the ways in which what we think of as feminism has not adequately addressed the needs of black women in the United States. It describes some of the ways in which black women’s experiences of oppression in the United States differ from white women’s. It then proposes a methodological tool for avoiding racism in feminist political theory, ...