Feminist Research Articles

Rambling on the Development and Alienation of the Feminist Movement in China from the Perspective of Marxist Jurisprudence

Marxist jurisprudence is of great significance to the study of feminist movement. Through the perspective of Marxist jurisprudence, it is possible to make a more in-depth and objective evaluation of the feminist movement in China at this stage. The Chinese feminist movement began in the 19th century and has developed in a rather tortuous way with the course of history. At the present stage, China’s feminist movement has promoted women’s freedom and emancipation, but there are serious problems of alienation, including: the tendency to revert to the ideology of “female victimology”, the crisis of confrontation with men caused by excessive emotional outbursts, the emphasis on male and female genders to the neglect of internal differences and contradictions, the fact that gender issues have become a symptom of other social problems, the commodification of the feminist movement, and the fact that the feminist movement has become an integral part of the society. The increasing commodification of the feminist movement.

Strategic Analysis of the Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising in Iran

This article provides a comprehensive strategic analysis of the "Women, Life, Freedom" uprising in Iran, also known as the "Mahsa Uprising." This movement began following the tragic murder of Mahsa Amini by the Morality Police's patrol unit in Tehran, turning into a focal point for collective power and revealing fundamental changes in the mindset of Iranian society, particularly highlighting the central role of women. This analysis employs the theoretical framework of the movement society and examines the historical background of the women's movement in Iran, as well as the transformative nature of the Mahsa uprising on societal understanding. It assesses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and offers insights on its impact on Iranian society.

Collecting Antiquities and Networking as Feminist Activity at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: An Approach through Isabel F. Dodd (1857–1943)

Abstract: Collecting was one of the mechanisms through which women empowered themselves at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth. Through collecting they created networks with other women and established their presence in a public sphere from which they were habitually excluded because of their gender. In this article I flesh out these issues by focusing on the career of Isabel Frances Dodd (1857–1943), a specialist in art and archaeology who worked as a professor at the American College for Girls in Constantinople. The article is divided into two parts. First, I provide an overview of the historical context and the sources available for approaching the case study. Second, I concentrate on one of the main features of Dodd’s professional life—namely, her role as a collector of antiquities. In this part, particular attention is devoted to the largest project she launched: the creation of a museum.

Between Medicine and Revolution: towards the biography of Elena Nikolaevna Oshanina

Biographical research has been an integral part of historical science since its inception. However, as a rule, the most significant historical figures have always fallen into the sphere of interests of scientists. In post-Soviet historiography, biographies of people who are difficult to classify as outstanding figures began to appear more and more often. Despite this, through the analysis of their biographies, it is possible to trace how the inheritance of cultural traditions formed in different historical periods took place, the ways of assimilation of social, gender and other ideas, their transfers and influence on people's behavior in specific historical circumstances. The purpose of the article is to restore the biography of Elena Nikolaevna Oshanina (1874–1943), a physician by profession and a Socialist Revolutionary by party affiliation, based on unpublished archival documents from the central, local and personal archives, to identify her place in the revolutionary and women's social movement of the early twentieth century. A particular example of the biography makes it possible to understand how the process of formation of diverse and often layered identities of women of the late XIX – early XX centuries took place. As a result, it can be concluded that Elena Nikolaevna Oshanina's self-realization was in the field between two identities – professional and revolutionary, which were layered on top of each other, but both were very important for the heroine of this biography.

Unexplained Revolutions: The Origins and Ends of Latin American Catholic Upheaval

John T. McGreevy's chronicle of modern Roman Catholic history is a vivid and sometimes jarring reminder of the historical depth of contemporary divisions within the Church, especially as these enter the public sphere. Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis elucidates the church's ambivalent response to the challenge of modernity over the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specifically the rise of democratic nation states, anti-colonialist movements from the global south, the struggles of poor and working people for liberation, and feminist and human rights movements. The spread of totalitarianism and the supposed triumph of capitalism represented a different set of challenges for the church in this period.

Kritik Gita Savitri tentang Budaya Patriarki di Media Sosial Youtube: Analisis Feminisme Qāsim Amīn

This article delves into the entrenched patriarchal culture that has long restrained women, perpetuating inequality and giving rise to various social problems. Consequently, there persists a pressing need for continued advocacy to safeguard women’s rights. In today’s technologically advanced era, platforms such as the internet and social media offer unprecedented avenues for communication, serving as potent forums for the exchange of ideas, including critiques of patriarchal norms. One such example is feminist activist Gita Savitri, who utilizes the YouTube platform to disseminate her perspectives on diverse social issues about women. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method, conducting analytical inquiries to elucidate the data in alignment with the research objectives. The primary data source comprises Gita Savitri’s YouTube content addressing patriarchal culture, complemented by secondary sources including scholarly literature. The analysis is conducted through the lens of Qāsim Amīn’s feminist theory. Through this examination, the research aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of patriarchal dynamics and the ongoing efforts towards gender equality. The analysis reveals that Gita Savitri’s utilization of YouTube as a platform facilitates the dissemination of feminist discourse, and the research identifies the emergence of counter-narratives within online spaces, challenging traditional patriarchal ideologies and promoting alternative perspectives on gender roles and societal norms.

As We Sit in a Circle on the Grass, and: 环 Circle, and: Untamed Tongue 母语

Abstract: "Circle" and "untamed tongue" are from 离离草 Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective's poetry writing workshops in 2022. The poems were originally written in Chinese using the Exquisite Corpse method, where workshop participants continued after each other's lines under a tight time limit to co-author collective languages and narratives. They were translated into English by CAO Collective members fran yu 嚼嚼 and huiyin zhou 徽音 in collaboration. These poems and their translations engage with the affective experiences of Chinese queer feminists in the diaspora. These collaborative processes, whether as a group or as a duet, rebuild our own lifeworlds that traverse national, geographic, and generational borders. As we call and respond to one another, and murmur tTHERE IS A HOUSEo queer/feminist ancestors and family members who seem out of reach, we reimagine what it means to be with each other, to stand with arrested feminist activists and victims of lockdowns from afar.

Digital Media of Aliansi Laki-Laki Baru in Design Studies: Building a New Image of Men (?)

This research seeks to elucidate digital feminist activism in the context of user interface design and content within the study of design, exploring the visual representation on the Alliance of New Men (ALB) website. The qualitative research method employed in this study, which includes a literature review, indicates that digital feminist activism within the user interface explains that the ALB website demonstrates a multi-faceted identity that cannot be confined to a single website characteristic. The website's user interface is more intuitive compared to offering a distinct uniqueness that deviates from the dominant values of ALB. On one hand, the ALB website's user interface breaks rigid boundaries in its layout flexibility, yet on the other hand, it still reflects the meaning of traditional gender stereotypes through color usage. The content related to domestic space in ALB appears to merely reverse roles, but it ultimately reverts to traditional codes of masculinity.

Examination of three postcolonial African writers' perspectives on third world feminism

A variation of feminism known as postcolonial feminism emerged in opposition to feminism that exclusively addressed women's experiences in Western societies. In order to demonstrate how racism and the lasting political, economic, and cultural repercussions of colonialism affect non-white and non-Western women in the postcolonial globe, postcolonial feminism examines these issues. African feminism is a subset of feminism developed by African women that is focused on the issues and concerns of women in continental Africa (African women residing on the African continent). These feminism movements do not all represent the realities of African women because Africa is not a homogeneous continent. Some feminists are particularly focused on particular subgroups of African women, including movements with a national foundation, such as feminism in Sweden, feminism in India, feminism in Mexico, feminism in Japan, feminism in Germany, feminism in South Africa, etc. The concept of feminism for many African writers in the post-colonial era in the Third World has been the subject of widespread controversy, as it is seen as a feminist movement in line with and for African women in the diaspora instead of African women in the African continent. In this study, we present the perspectives of three African writers interested in the feminist movement about their vision of the concepts and role of the feminist movement in the post-colonial era in the Third World by shedding light on African feminist movements and the challenges they face. The study presents the vision of three African writers for the women's movement in the Third World in general and the African continent in particular in the post-colonial period through the emergence and development of the African feminist movement, and the three writers selected in this study are activists of the feminist movement inside Africa through their literary activity. Delusion: Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Assia Djebar and Robert C.J.Young.

How Russia's war in Ukraine can change gender studies.

The catastrophe of Russia's war in Ukraine following on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter-inspired protests raises the possibility of marked changes in people's gendered experiences in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (CEE&E). Drawing upon recent discussions, events, and publications-with particular attention to Ukrainian voices and reflexivity as to my position as a US-based political scientist mostly trained on Russia-I suggest ways that these developments have begun to, can, and should change gender studies. I raise three questions: (1) Does CEE&E still constitute a meaningful geopolitical context-or region-for understanding gender? (2) Who should have authority to speak about gender in CEE&E? and (3) Have the possibilities for solidarities among feminist activists across CEE&E and beyond CEE&E increased or decreased, and why? Considering these questions, I argue that there is still much to be gained from studying gender in CEE&E as a field if we incorporate intersectional and decolonial lenses and especially if we can keep pushing ourselves through the scholarly debates that have constituted the field. Incorporating this part of the world-elided since Soviet collapse-can help gender studies as a whole deepen and reconsider paradigmatic concepts such as intersectionality, colonialism, and solidarity.

The First Wave of Feminism: A Movement Created by and for Americans

This paper seeks to explore how Stanton, Anthony, and their peers’ social and legal activism led to the ratification of the 19th amendment. The first wave of feminism began in New York in 1848 when a group of abolitionist, feminist women met at the Seneca Falls Convention to discuss the social and civil rights of women in the United States. The first wave of feminism was the pursuit of greater liberty for women through suffrage, the right to an education, and the right to paid labor, without which women were treated as second-class citizens dependent on men and circumstance. The first wave authenticated the United States of America’s founding principle of democracy. Stanton and Anthony laid the foundational agenda for the first feminist movement by publishing speeches, articles, and books that served to educate all Americans on the necessity of women’s rights and their equal place in society. Examining first and secondary sources revealed that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, along with their peers, reconstructed the American identity to encompass women by demanding that Americans recognize the rights of women and their equal place in society through their social and legal activism, which demanded they be given the right to vote, the right to an education, and the right to paid labor.

Immersive imaginaries: Digital spaces as post place care

With the spread of digitalization, the spaces and imaginaries of healthcare are fundamentally changing, due, in part, to an increasing uptake of immersive technologies. Building on previous ethnographic work on the nature of placed care (Ivanova, 2020a; Simonsen, 2020) this paper explores two cases of immersive technology advances in the Netherlands and Denmark to better understand contemporary developments in digital healthcare, the virtual environments they afford, and the immersive experiences they seek to evoke. First, we offer ‘immersive imaginaries’ as a heuristic for exploring how ideas of immersion, placeless-ness, and futurity intersect as key stakeholders in the healthcare innovation industry articulate socio-technical solutions to healthcare problems, and to what effects. Second, and in drawing inspiration from feminist STS on care, we build on Ivanova's (2020b) conceptual work on ‘post place care’ to analyse the relations between place, technology, and care in experiences of immersion. These two points form the contribution of the paper and its ambition to engage with ongoing discussions in the field of digital geography about how to analyse and theorise digital spaces of care.

Pola Komunikasi Gender dalam Politik

This study focuses on gender communication patterns in politics. The aim of this study is to analyze gender communication patterns, which are considered to still experience inequality in politics. The differences in communication styles depend on where he comes from, where he was born, his educational background, his age, and his gender. Whether we realize it or not, gender inequality occurs not only in society but also in the media as a gender constructor. Various gender injustices have occurred since the 19th century and are trying to break down patriarchal culture. Indonesia has a patriarchal culture that is still rooted, although it is slowly starting to erode due to the development of the modernization era. Women are now starting to dare to express their opinions in public spaces, such as in the political arena. But again and again, bitter pills always seem to be the daily intake of Indonesian women. Gender inequality is also felt by women who enter the world of politics. The incessant feminist movement has not changed the construction of women by the media. Gender inequality that occurs should be minimized with good gender-sensitive communication, without forgetting equality.

Further basic evidence for the dark-ego-vehicle principle: Higher pathological narcissism is associated with greater involvement in feminist activism

According to the dark-ego-vehicle principle (DEVP), individuals with so-called dark personalities (e.g., individuals with high narcissistic traits) are attracted to political and social activism not for the achievement of prosocial goals but to repurpose the activism to satisfy their specific ego-focused needs. In this pre-registered study, we aimed at replicating and extending previous empirical evidence for the DEVP by examining the associations of pathological narcissism with involvement in feminist activism. A diverse US sample (N = 458) completed online measures of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory and several covariates (i.e., altruism, self-identification as a feminist, and age). Paralleling previous research, higher pathological narcissistic grandiosity was found to be statistically significantly related to greater involvement in feminist activism. Unexpectedly, gender did not moderate this relationship. Also, higher pathological narcissism was related to stronger self-identification as a feminist; however, pathological narcissistic grandiosity explained some variance in the involvement in feminist activism over and above feminist self-identification. In exploratory secondary analyses, we found that higher pathological narcissism was associated with specific feminist conversational interaction behaviors (e.g., correcting other’s non-feminist language). The limitations (e.g., the relevance of other dark personality traits beyond narcissism) and the theoretical implications for the DEVP are discussed. Overall, the findings of the present study are further support for the DEVP.

Analysing the efficiency of public policies on gender-based violence: A literature review

Gender-based violence is a global scourge advancing unchecked, penetrating all social and cultural strata. Physical, sexual and emotional abuse seriously affects women's freedom, with consequences not only psychological and physical but also economic, in the form of health, labour, legal and police costs. Therefore, society demands effective governmental measures based on respect for human rights and aimed at promoting equality to avoid intimidation and ill-treatment. This paper proposes to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the literature to investigate the state of the art of public policy and gender violence or domestic violence or violence against women to detect the patterns of behaviour that have marked the lines of study over the last two decades (2001–2022), by analysing a sample of 355 articles. The results reveal that scientific production has grown exponentially recently, with Brazil and the USA having the most significant involvement. Furthermore, three clearly differentiated lines of research are evident: the detection of risk factors and prevention measures; feminist movements aimed at empowering women, seeking their independence; and the qualification of care services supported by public policies. However, they all have the same objective, to achieve gender homogeneity and stop any type of violence against women and girls.

Speaking out, talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organising and loving

SUMMARY This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and aspirations. It explores the intersections of feminist activism, knowledge production, solidarity and power dynamics in Africa and the African diaspora. The essay delves into how African feminists challenge existing power structures, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, fundamentalisms, capitalism and heteronormativity. It emphasises the importance of feminist scholarship and activism in reshaping political economies and political ecologies and challenging the status quo. The piece discusses the lived experiences of African feminist social movements and their efforts to redefine social contracts.

Overview of feminist movements in Turkey

Feminism is based on the principle that women are equal to men in social, political, cultural and economic fields. These principles include women's equal rights with men, women's social and political empowerment, women's sexual freedom, prevention of violence against women, women's health rights and the fight against gender discrimination. The aim of this study is to shed light on the idea of feminism in Turkey, which is on the transition route between Asia and Europe, with the last developed feminism scale and to compare the scores given by the participants to the statements of the Feminism scale according to different characteristics. It has been revealed whether there are differences between the scores given to the scale not only according to gender, but also according to demographic characteristics such as race, education, place of birth, etc.

The Use of Thread and Fabric in Feminist Zines

The Use of Thread and Fabric in Feminist Zines

Stitchers of Instagram

Stitchers of Instagram

Mediating lifestyle movements: the ethical ecologies of digital veganisms

ABSTRACT This article sets out a framework, ‘ethical ecologies,’ for researching and conceptualizing the role of media in lifestyle movements. Understanding lifestyle movements is important due to their growing prominence as a site of ethical and political agency, and media are integral in materializing this agency. The framework I develop to research these movements combines three bodies of work: media ecological scholarship (which emphasizes relations between media and social contexts), app studies (which foregrounds the mediation of consumption practices), and feminist STS (which elucidates how infrastructures materialize ethical possibilities). Using digital veganism as a case study, I combine interviews, documentary analysis, participatory action research, and what I describe as a ‘historicized’ app walkthrough, to trace how the move away from grassroots activist-produced media – and widespread use of apps and social media to support vegan practice – is entangled with its dramatic popularization. Yet, while veganism more visible, its position as a holistic philosophy with connections to wider social movements has been troubled by a socio-technical emphasis on vegan eating practice. Through this analysis of digital veganisms, I elucidate how an ethical ecologies approach can be utilized to reveal shifts in the mediation of lifestyle movements that have profound ethico-political implications.