Drawing on three Chinese translations of the lesbian chapter in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, this paper examines at the micro level how the discussions on lesbianism in the work are translated and what role gender identity plays in the process of translation. Lesbianism has played an important part in feminism. However, homosexuality is still regarded as unacceptable to most Chinese peo...

Although previous scholars have addressed the legislative parameters of the Equal Rights Amendment debate in non-ratifying states, analysis of amendment supporters’ rhetoric has been limited. Examining the public and private writings of activists, This thesis presents the argument that pro-ERA coalitions in Georgia addressed the concerns of their opponents and developed rhetoric that deemphasiz...

Responding to on-going debates about the presence (or otherwise) of feminism within left-wing politics, this article has two central aims. First, it seeks to develop a set of analytical criteria to identify and assess the extent to which an instance of politics has become “feminist”. Second, it aims to illustrate the potential utility of this framework by applying it to a range of examples of c...

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...

If the scholarly principle of her literary "vocation", of her emotional "choices" and even of her relation to her own status as a woman offered to us by Toril Moi have but little chance of appearing as Simone de Beauvoir, this is because she is separated from this by the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to whom she delegated, in a way, her capacity to do philosophy... There is not a better exampl...

In this era of populist insurgency breaking the mold of democratic politics, two movements clashed.They represented opposite sides of the political spectrum, one emancipatory, the other exclusionary. One may be identified as feminism, the other as populism. This essay analyzes both concepts and explores their connection.

Rafael Capurro calls for an intercultural information ethics that radically challenges its Eurocentric, Greek philosophical roots and grapples with and validates cultural diversity. One of the voices that must be included in this project is that of feminism, both within and outside of Western culture. While there are a variety of feminist issues and approaches to feminism, embracing the natural...

In this wide-ranging interview, which took place in spring 2021, Angela McRobbie talks about her work relation to social politics, the contemporary conjuncture, cultural studies, decolonisation and feminism. Beginning with a discussion on experience of Covid, it contextualises these reflections through anti-welfarism scapegoating dependency, drawing from new book Feminism Politics Resilience. I...