“Class is part of the economy of truth,” says Sartre. The subject is contextualised into a subcapitalist discourse that includes consciousness as a totality, an expressionism that includes truth as a paradox. Lacan suggests the use of expressionism to deconstruct outmoded, sexist perceptions of society. An abundance of narratives concerning expressionism exist. Thus, neocapitalist feminism stat...

This essay examines the rhetoric of choice as it is used by direct-to-consumer campaigns to persuade women to limit menstruation through the consumption of oral contraceptives. Using the tools of feminist rhetorical criticism, I trace how choice is rhetorically constructed to suggest that menstrual suppression is a path to individual empowerment while co-opting second and postsecond-wave rhetor...

This paper contends that there has been a definitive and negative change in the trajectory of so-called Islamic feminism. This change has been effected in large part in the West , as part of the growing discourse of Euro-Islam, European Islam, indigenization of Islam, etc., a discourse that comes not from governments (though it is mirrored, applauded and rewarded by governments in the region) b...

Along with the popularization of feminism in Chinese social media, an antifeminist wave has become increasingly prominent since 2014, marked most notably by stigmatization buzzword “rural feminism.” We collected 2,104 texts regarding feminism” on Zhihu (the Quora) and applied approaches computer-assisted discourse studies (i.e., topic modeling, collocation, concordance analyses) as lenses to he...

This study dealt with the struggle of main character in Marlina Murderer Four Acts movie. The objectives were to find out oppressions that experienced, struggles against oppression, and how struggled oppression. used descriptive qualitative as method analyze data. researcher Young's (1990) theory data from movie's script. Marlina, character, suffered three kinds oppression; marginalization, pow...

Liberal feminism has become a trending topic in articles and journals also been appointed as theme several novels films. Some cases of liberal were depicted by the main character film Brave, Merida. In was talking about woman's liberation or movement, which fought for right to get her freedom. This research aimed find types characteristics utterances gestures film. From Merida, writer analyzed ...

Erich Fromm is one of the few members of the Frankfurt School who seriously engaged himself with theorizing the problems of gender and the differences between men and women. In certain ways, Fromm anticipated later attempts to produce a feminist Marxism and poststructuralist analyses of the socially constructed nature of gender. Yet Fromm's gender analysis was highly uneven and even contradicto...

Feminists are starting to look to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, in the hope that it might provide a useful framework for conceptualizing the tension between structure and agency in questions of gender. This article argues that Bourdieu’s analysis of gender can indeed be useful to feminists, but that the options Bourdieu offers for change are problematic. The article suggests that Bourdieu’s anal...

Global feminism has been critical of the earlier notion of “global sisterhood” and its uncritical attachment to commonalities of women’s oppression around the world. However, in this article I argue that global feminism curiously remains inadequately accountable for its differential attitude toward issues of difference and inequality among communities within the U.S. versus those alleged differ...