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As Alison Jaggar pointed out, the second wave of feminism was a social and theoretical movement that shifted the analysis from the logics of rights and equality --an intrinsic feature of the first wave-- towards those of oppression and liberation. So while the debates on justice were prominent in some of the most influential feminist theoretical discussions of the recent years, power has become a central issue, maybe the issue, of contemporary feminism and therefore a key concept for feminist theories; notwithstanding this concept was present in these theories in a rather more implicit than explicit way since the decade of 1980. The centrality of this concept, as well as the characteristic pluralism of feminism, produces the need to identify the different understandings of power currently in use. This paper suggests a typology of feminist perspectives on power based on reviewing some of the key contributions in this field over the last four decades. Amy Allen's work focusing on the power over and power to categories is the starting (although discussed) point for this task. The resulting typology defines four perspectives of power originated in the second wave (power as resource, domination, freedom and care) and revisited since the decade of 1990 in connection with other debates such as that of the political subject. In the end, this paper aims to clarify the different and often contradictory theoretical strategies of feminism and to show what these ideas can contribute to a critical conceptualization of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notions of stereotype, sexism and symbolic violence are not only regular categories in academic work analyzing advertisements and campaigns, but also, thanks to the militant efforts of many organizations and educational initiatives, have begun to be part of media doxy and everyday language. This paper seeks to present the observations carried out throughout almost ten years of existence of the Advertising Observatory on Sexism of the UAI's Bachelor's degree in Advertising, bearing in mind the regularities and transformations of housework depiction [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the situation of the studies on Gender and Feminism that have developed in Spain with the inauguration of the European Higher Education Area as part of the implementation of the Bologna Plan. First, we will perform an analysis of the historical circumstances of the Spanish university and its territorial characteristics. The objective of the work is to make a conceptual map with the strengths and weaknesses of studies that the society has been demanding to develop the different Plans of Equality in the democratic period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Female workers participation has been a prominent dimension in the analysis of Latin America agribusiness restructuration processes. Multiple studies describe women's presence in critical places within production process. Skills requires for this jobs are usually associated to socialization process instead of knowledge acquired through working experience. In this paper, I think about the construction of analytical tools that make possible to study women's experiences as agribusiness workers. Research was realized in Uco Valley, Mendoza province, Argentina, which is one of the most important productive areas of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]