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"Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism" by Alison Phipps is a book that explores the exclusivity of mainstream feminism. Phipps argues that mainstream feminism fails to address intersecting inequalities based on class, race, religion, (dis)ability, citizenship, and gender identity. The book examines the history of racism, classism, and sexism within mainstream feminism, as well as the exclusion of trans women from the movement. Phipps emphasizes the need for intersectionality within feminism and calls for the dismantling and rebuilding of oppressive structures. [Extracted from the article]

"Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics" is a comprehensive and diverse collection of original research, translated work, interviews, and reprinted articles by scholars, writers, and activists. The editors, Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, aim to deconstruct binary structures in the study of feminism and Chinese characteristics, emphasizing the need for a broader understanding of feminisms and the transnational nature of Chinese feminisms. The book is organized into three sections that explore Chinese feminisms beyond the global-local binary, plural feminisms in theory and practice, and the production and representation of contemporary Chinese feminisms in creative forms. The volume offers valuable insights into the complexities of feminism in China and is recommended for researchers and general readers interested in gender and feminist studies, China studies, and Asian studies. [Extracted from the article]

Carolyn J. Eichner's book, "Feminism's Empire," is a significant contribution to the fields of French history, the history of feminism, and the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism. The book focuses on the relationships between nineteenth-century French feminists and the French empire. Eichner examines the lives and work of five pioneering French feminists who addressed empire in their writings and speeches, while also exploring the ways in which they participated in certain forms of imperialist stereotyping. The book offers new insights into the intersections of feminism, imperialism, and race, and is recommended for researchers interested in French history, feminism, and imperialism. [Extracted from the article]

Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) is a Montreal-based distribution company "dedicated to the promotion of works made by women (in the most inclusive definition)." Founded in 1975, for almost five decades, GIV has supported a vast range of video works by and for women from Quebec and Canada, as well as from an international context. Over the years, GIV has promoted its catalogue to different communities through curated programs screened locally or at national and international festivals. More recently, this mandate has found a new venue and greater amplitude due to the use of two streaming platforms, Vimeo and VUCAVU. In this essay, I explain GIV's recent discourse on the use of streaming platforms as reflective of the organization's investment in video technology as a form of feminist intervention since the 1970s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a context for the publication of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991). As Chicana literature and feminism flourished, the visibility of Chicanas increased dramatically, and at the same it became noticeable that Chicana lesbian representations lacked considerably. During this time roughly from the 1980s through 2000, the focus on Chicana lesbian representation reached a new level of awareness which ultimately led to an increase in demand for publications by and about Chicana lesbians. However, this new visibility did not materialize so easily and there were still resistances in the academy and at national conferences that led to major, well-documented confrontations. This was a dramatic and momentous period for the establishment of a public discourse about Chicana lesbians within Chicana/o studies that still continues today. Arguably, contributions by Chicana lesbians provided many foundational theories critical to the development of Chicana feminist thought and Chicana Studies that merits recognition. Published by Third Woman Press in 1991 and edited by Carla Trujillo, this book collection signaled a turn in perceptions of Chicana/o gays and lesbians across communities and in academic circles. This article argues that the publication of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mother Warned Us About was made possible by a confluence of social, cultural, and literary engagements with other publications that arose from a politics of love and desire. As a result, love and desire are epistemic expressions that shape the collective voices in Chicana Lesbians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada" by Marie Carrière is a book that explores the internal and external plurality of feminism in Canada. Carrière examines major debates and currents in metafeminist writings and practices, focusing on intersectionality, alliances, affect theory, ethics of care, and feminism's own internal differences. The book also includes an in-depth examination of key literary writings, highlighting the feminist concerns that inform and shape them. Carrière advocates for an experimental writing style that challenges academic conventions and makes more viable engagements with contemporary literary works. While the book has been praised for its insights, there are some critiques regarding its ambiguous and contradictory analysis of feminism, as well as its limited engagement with feminist activism in Canada and the absence of discussions on class and capitalism. Overall, the book contributes to feminist possibilities for social change and deserves attention and engagement. [Extracted from the article]

"Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" by Katherine M. Marino challenges the traditional narrative that portrays the United States and western Europe as the centers of feminism. Marino highlights the contributions of Latin American women, particularly from Uruguay, Cuba, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, in creating a regional and international feminist movement. She traces the history of feminismo americano and its role in creating the UN Commission on the Status of Women and advocating for women's rights in the UN Charter. The book explores the relationships, collaborations, and disagreements among key figures in the movement, shedding light on the diverse perspectives within Latin American feminism. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores the impact of Michel Foucault's work on classical scholarship, specifically focusing on his books "The Uses of Pleasure" and "Care of the Self." Despite the challenging nature of his writings, Foucault's books became best sellers and influenced various fields such as queer and feminist theory, history, and governmentality. The article emphasizes the relevance of Foucault's study of antiquity for classical scholars and highlights the transformation in the study of gender and sexuality during the 1970s and 1980s, with Foucault's work serving as a significant turning point. It suggests that Foucault's understanding of sexuality and power remains relevant today, particularly in analyzing contemporary institutional practices and the discourse of sexuality. The article also discusses the posthumous publication of Foucault's lectures, essays, and seminars, which reveal his broader engagement with antiquity and various topics such as public discourse, governmentality, and biopolitics. Foucault's approach to classical antiquity was influential not only because of his focus on it, but also because of the less commonly explored texts he studied within the discipline. His work also emphasized the importance of tracing a history across late antiquity, the medieval era, and beyond. Foucault's interdisciplinary and expressive mode of writing history has also influenced the way cultural history is written. The article acknowledges some criticisms of Foucault's perspective, particularly regarding his limited focus on authoritative male voices and exclusion of certain texts and perspectives [Extracted from the article]

By turns intimate, scholarly, and political, this reflection of a working-class historian (by birth as well as choice) and feminist scholar of women, gender, and migration highlights the life experiences, intellectual awakenings, and contemporary historical developments that have informed her evolving scholarship. While acknowledging individual achievement, the emphasis is on how collaboration with a life partner/historian, colleagues, students, and activists, as well as "collective solidarities," have significantly shaped and enriched her career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reads passages in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave (1850) that pertain to walking and Black motherhood. In doing so, it theorizes Truth's 1843 walking migration as a political pilgrimage whose spatial-temporal schema challenged federal and state policy. Armed with tactics borrowed from mathematics and the natural sciences, "sojourner laws" and other federal dictates worked to confine African American mothers like Truth to particular social and geographic places and to their status as enslaved and low-wage laborers. Casting a critical eye on Truth's white feminist co-author Olive Gilbert's representations of motherhood in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, "The Mathematics of Truth" seeks to intervene into the reception of Truth's life and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how Spanish women formed grassroots groups to fight for the transformation of their neighbourhoods in the late 1950s and 1960s — the latter years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. In contrast to most histories of feminism, which focus on literate, secular groups in universities or the centres of cities, its subjects are activists based on the outskirts of Madrid and in the industrial areas of Asturias, many of whom were Catholic, came from rural areas and left school before the age of 14. Histories of feminism have tended to overlook completely movements in the southern European dictatorships, while accounts of modern Spain often see male politicians and experts as the driving forces shaping the built environment under Franco. But photographs, archival material and oral history interviews show that women demanded ' cosas básicas ' (basic resources) on a widespread scale in Asturias and Madrid. They made these claims in the context of unprecedented internal migration, industrial unrest and the spread of social Catholic movements: factors often neglected in studies of social movements. The women involved have sometimes struggled, however, to take pride in their actions in later life. Patterns in their life stories suggest why, and offer insight into what agitating under Franco has meant for how they understand their lives, identities and relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Urvashi Butalia was interviewed during a visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2019' NF:Urvashi, my first question is a very broad one. As one of the foremost feminist voices in contemporary India, who also has significant connections with global feminisms, how would you help feminists elsewhere to understand the contemporary Indian context? But then in places like the US and UK, self-proclaimed feminists, or elements of feminist movements, are aggressively disallowing trans and gender non-conforming people, which seems like an echo of the rejection of black and lesbian women that marked earlier forms of feminism. [Extracted from the article]

Even the seemingly liberal Czechoslovak political elites were anxious about the notion of depopulation, and feared the death of the nation, which led them to disregard the societal need for modernizing family planning. At the same time, Czechoslovak women experts were significantly involved in debates on conceptions of the family. They fueled debates on the sexual liberation of women in Czechoslovakia not as a matter of ideology or morality, but as a matter of public health, social justice, and reproductive rights. This paper aims to look at these women experts and their active role in academic debates on Czechoslovak policies on family and reproduction. Looking at the case of Czechoslovakia, as a non-Western country, this article then discusses the issues of the marginalization of women's activism and feminism in the East. The article suggests that, by applying a decolonial lens, a broader inclusion of the history of feminism of non-Western women can be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender issues have become increasingly compelling for both scholars and the general public in Estonia in the past twenty years. This can, for example, be seen in the March 2022 issue of the Estonian cultural magazine Vikerkaar which published a lengthy overview of the history of Estonian feminism (Karro 2022). The overview attempts to show the length of this history and its continuity under different political regimes, refreshing older surveys published by Vera Poska-Grünthal (1936) and Helmi Mäelo (1957 in Sweden, reprinted in Estonia in 1999). Such surveys list notable women and significant milestones, but do not usually delve into the nuances of gender history or feminist thought like in-depth case studies. This more nuanced work has been done in the past seven years by the gender studies research group within the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies. The present article reviews the state of Estonian research, both within the research group and more broadly, and points out the main challenges that scholars face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review and its special issue, which covers a range of topics in Chinese economic history. The topics include state censorship during 1644-1790, marital fertility over three centuries, the transmission of wood-block carving and printing skills across generations, the long-term impact of administrative arrangements north and south of the Great Wall, and informal networks facilitating trust.

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Jane Freeland's book "Feminist Transformation and Domestic Violence in Divided Berlin 1968–2002" explores the evolution of feminism in Germany, including the German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic, up to the reunification in 1989. The study focuses on grassroots efforts to address domestic violence, highlighting the intersectionality of race and gender, and the challenges faced by women in shelters. The book also delves into the debates and activism surrounding domestic violence under state socialism in East Germany, showcasing the complexities of feminist movements in both East and West Germany. Freeland's work contributes to historical debates on feminism, offering a broad definition of the movement and emphasizing the importance of understanding the different political regimes that shaped feminist activism in Germany. [Extracted from the article]

Andes traces del Valle's family's migration story from France and Spain and is able to credibly recreate her similarly peripatetic childhood, which explains del Valle's native or near-native fluency in English and French, as well as her very Mexican Spanish, which he manages to bring out even in translation. Stephen J. C. Andes begins his biography of the Mexican Catholic activist Sofía del Valle in 1934, when the incoming administration of Lázaro Cárdenas intercepted and willfully misinterpreted private letters she had sent from the United States to church figures in Mexico. Andes recognizes the way del Valle's faith shaped her work from day to day. Andes's biography is, in many ways, the story of what Miranda and del Valle were able to achieve together. [Extracted from the article]

This document is a bibliography on feminism in the 21st century that includes a selection of books in the Spanish language that address topics related to feminism and women's thinking. Some of the mentioned books are "Salomón no era sabio" by Celia Amorós, "Mujeres y poder. Un manifiesto" by Mary Beard, and "Feminismo posthumano" by Rosi Braidoti. The bibliography seeks to offer a sample of current thematic and theoretical interests in the field of feminism in the Spanish-speaking world, and the books address a variety of topics related to feminism, including the history of feminism, feminist theory, gender violence, gender identity, and feminist activism. The authors include renowned feminists and scholars such as Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, and bell hooks. These books are a valuable source of information for those interested in researching and understanding feminism and gender studies. [Extracted from the article]

This work is based on a theoretical research study on Southern Feminisms and Social Intervention developed at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The South is understood as a metaphor for human suffering systematically caused by the oppression and domination of an imperialist, capitalist, colonial and patriarchal North. It is a very powerful geo-corporate-political and epistemological metaphor because it reveals and problematises the devices used for oppression and domination. This article uses cartography as a methodology to make explicit the analytical and interpretative matrices present in decolonial feminisms and community feminisms. It also makes explicit the criticisms that these feminisms make of hegemonic-academic-Western feminism. Contributions from feminist experiences in Australia and New Zealand are included and the specific contributions of Southern Feminisms to the theory and practice of social work are made explicit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Even when we cannot speak of specifically feminist reflections in authors such as Zambrano, Chacel, or Martín Gaite, who in many of their contributions did not refer explicitly to women, their writings can be linked to a feminist approach. Spanish feminist thought then started an internal debate between two theoretical tendencies: so-called difference feminism and equality feminism. Roberta Johnson, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-4384-7369-7) In I Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory i , Roberta Johnson reconstructs Spanish feminist thought in an accessible and original way. Johnson displays a deep knowledge of the history of Spanish feminist thought, and communicates a fluid, coherent, and rigorous understanding that gives us access to the lesser known writings of these recovered Spanish feminist authors. [Extracted from the article]

This paper addresses feminisms in Spain during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century, proposing a number of interpretative keys for their historical analysis. Spanish feminism has been diverse, and its emancipatory aspirations, demands and discourses often have not coincided with those of the European or American suffragist movements. In these pages, an attempt is made to gain further insights into the principal challenges that Spanish historiography has met when analyzing this complex phenomenon, while suggesting that this has contributed to breathing new life into research on historical feminisms as a whole. Special attention is also paid to how feminist critique developed on the basis of different ways of understanding sexual difference. Lastly, I look at how expectations for change were created and how feminist vindications were formulated in different discursive frameworks, namely those of religion, liberal principles and socialist and anarchist political cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The topic signaled by the title is presented on the basis of several journalistic texts: the controversial book Thalitha kumi and articles by “fighting” women, including Cecylia Walewska, Kazimiera Bujwidowa, Iza Moszczeńska, Maria Turzyma, and Maria Czesława Przewóska. The fate of women over the centuries presented in them forms the “history of injustice,” which was blamed on, among other things, Christianity, which had distorted the teachings of Jesus. In the name of fighting forces hostile to progress, emancipatory journalism repeatedly attacked the institutional Church, seen as a bedrock of conservatism, backwardness, and dogmatism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historian Susan Zimmermann brought to scholars' attention a 1942 protest statement issued by the Liaison Committee of Women's International Organisations (LCWIO) in which they protested Nazi violence and abuses. Zimmermann characterized the protest statement as a "public and united stand" taken by the leading women's organizations. The phrasing of the protest was unusual in its attention to the "extermination" and "spoliation" of the lives, culture, and property of those victimized. I analyze the significance of this women-authored anti-atrocities document in historical context using archival sources. I argue that two refugee women instigated this legally oriented protest statement and that the statement was part of a modestly larger pattern of anti-atrocities campaigns. Rather than being united, as women's groups later claimed, evidence points to divisiveness, challenges building networks of allies to respond to war crimes, and difficulty in making themselves heard once they decided to act collectively on a gender-specific analysis of atrocities. This research bridges the fields of the history of feminism and Holocaust history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about the Triple Jeopardy newspaper, the official news organ of the Third World Women's Alliance, and its political education events and articles that covered a broad range of domestic and international issues. It says that the paper's collective authorship served as a method of protecting members from state surveillance, and the writing was embedded in organizational work, rather than existing alone.

The article focuses on Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)'s 40-year path of emancipation and solidarity, finding parallels between the Palestinian and Indigenous movements against settler colonialism. Topics covered include the importance of land in Indigenous identity, the historical roots of Chicana feminism, and testimonies from immigrant Latina breast cancer survivors, with an emphasis on collective healing among oppressed groups.

This microhistory is a study of one woman's efforts in New York City between 1907 and 1911 to join the efforts of three local feminist organizations—Greenwich House, the National Consumers League, and the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)—that were combining the energies of women from the industrial working class, middle class, and upper class in sustained drives to improve the working conditions and wages of women factory and steam laundry workers. One woman who devoted herself to these three organizational cross-class initiatives was Carola Woerishoffer (1885–1911). Microhistory is a method of studying the past that makes use of remnants of evidence still available about people, organizations, or communities that have been partially or completely forgotten. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The feminist agenda in Russia experienced a phase of intense aesthetic search in the field of contemporary art and contemporary theater. The split in society, war, increased censorship and state propaganda, and mass emigration stopped this process. Feminist ethics and aesthetics are oriented toward democratic values and the absolute value of human life; it is difficult for them to survive in totalitarian states. Using material from the history of feminism and aesthetic practices in the post-perestroika decades of Russia, this article examines two historical forms of such survival: the Stockholm syndrome and, in more detail, "anti-propaganda", the popularization of the feminist agenda through aesthetic practices with mandatory feedback and the utmost attention to individual fate and personal trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One might view Salamon's essay as something of an historical curiosity, a proto-Jewish-feminist text that may deserve a paragraph in any history of Jewish feminism, but which played no real role in the development of that movement. Salamon claims that the Tosefta was composed before the Mishnah and gives witness to Judaism's original, more egalitarian stance on female ritual participation. Mózes Salamon (1838-1912) was a relatively little-known rabbi living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire who wrote, among his other equally little-known works, a remarkable pamphlet, I The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith i (original Hebrew title: I Netiv Moshe: Maamar Me kari 'al Mishpat haNashim baEmunah i ). [Extracted from the article]

B Sandra McEvoy b is a clinical associate professor of political science and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Boston University. B Megan Burke b is associate professor of philosophy at Sonoma State University and the author of I When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence i (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019). She is the author of multiple books, including I The Tragedy of Heterosexuality i (New York: New York University Press, 2020) and I Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men i (New York: New York University Press, 2015). [Extracted from the article]

The article analyzes the history of feminism in Argentina from the early 20th century until the recovery of democracy in 1983. It highlights the resurgence of the feminist movement in the 1960s and its limitation during the military dictatorship. With the return to democracy, the movement was reactivated and the first feminist demonstration was held in 1984. The creation of the National Campaign for Free, Safe, and Legal Abortion in 2005 and the Ni una menos agency in 2015 are mentioned. The development of rights for gender and sexual dissidents is also highlighted. The article presents a list of laws and reforms that have ensured rights for women and people of diverse gender identities, but it points out that inequalities and discrimination still persist. [Extracted from the article]

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Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction by Rosemarie Tong and translated by Manizeh Najm-e araghi is a publication that offers us a clear and comprehensible understanding of the core feminist traditions. In this book, the author addresses seven feminist movements: liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, socialist feminism, existentialist feminism, and postmodern feminism. This article seeks to show how informative and inspiring this book might be for the Iranian intellectual and scientific community. Tong’s publication is an important and popular figure in the English-speaking world and has the necessary coherence in terms of logical order. It is well structured and the Persian translation is smooth and fluid. Taking into account that the book was first published in 1989; the translated version leaves out some important feminist approaches. It lacks the proper structure of academic books, but in the absence of translations of other prominent feminist theory books, it is a useful resource for students and researchers in the fields of social sciences, philosophy, and women's studies. We hope that the editor of the Persian version takes into account the last English edition of the book (2017) and presents it to the readers in its next Persian editions.