There are a variety of ways that one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. Sandra Harding refers to this approach ...

In the wake of intersectionality's trans-disciplinary institutionalization, this Article considers how the meaning and practice of intersectionality has changed in different historical moments. This Article studies three periods in black feminism's long history of doing intersectional work: an early period (1968-87) marked by a broad conception of intersectionality, the watershed years (1988-90...

This article examines the previously unexplored current of Freethinking feminism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the women's movement of this period, Freethinking feminists were nonetheless viewed as a liability—an attitude that contributed to their exclusion from much of the subsequent historiography. Such marginalisation was due not only to their vocal opposition to al...

By interviewing self-proclaimed feminists with small-scale businesses who sell feminist commodities, the aim of this article is to understand why and how market has become an arena for doing feminism what can tell us about contemporary feminism. Using theories postfeminism popular in combination Lacanian discourse theory, analysis shows that renegotiated into ownership by reshaping sisterhood b...

This paper is a response to the chapter “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide” in Andrea Smith’s book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Smith argues that U.S. colonial culture strategically uses sexual violence against Native women as a weapon to ensure the oppression and marginalization of Native people. This paper details and examines Smith’s argument and also considers...

Greater numbers of women are entering workplaces in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. Structural features patriarchy changing societies workplaces, but women’s experiences gendered segregation, under-representation exclusion raise questions around the feminist politics ethics mobilized to respond them. Building on extending emerging research feminism, gender, resistance, East, we...

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...