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Roundtable: Sexual and Spiritual Abuse at the Covenant Fellowship Church: Korean and Asian American Feminist Perspectives On May 2, 2021, a significant moment transpired with the launch of the @letters_from_rahab [...]

INTRODUCTION I. BIG TECH FEMINISM II. HARM AND DISCOURSE IN SEXUAL PRIVACY THEORY A. Unanswerable Harms B. Unanswerable Harms as Legal Strategy III. FROM UNANSWERABLE HARMS TO SCRIPTED HARMS A. [...], Many big players in the internet ecosystem do not like hosting sexual expression. They often justify these bans as a protection of sexual privacy. For example, Meta states that it removes sexual imagery to prevent the nonconsensual distribution of sexual images. In response, this Article argues that banning digital sexual expression is counterproductive if the aim is to alleviate the harms inflicted by sexual privacy losses. Contemporary sexual privacy theory, however, lacks analytical tools to explain why nudity bans harm the interests they intend to protect. This Article aims at building those tools. The main contribution is an invitation to locate part of the harm that victims experience not in the unwanted exposure but in the social interpretations of that exposure. If social interpretations make losses of sexual privacy exceptionally harmful, we should focus on both preventing invasions and changing those interpretations. Sexual expression is a powerful discourse that often aims at rewriting the social script that underlies the social sanctions we collectively impose on victims. Thus, the Article argues that protecting sexual expression ought to be an essential piece of a content moderation system designed from a sexual privacy perspective.

The Adivasi people, termed Scheduled Tribes in India, have a lifeworld entwined with nature, land, and resources. Their relationship with the land produces a particular form of lived experience. This interface between land and culture that shapes the body of knowledge is not written or recorded like other practices and traditions. Adivasi/Tribal women play an important role in articulating this knowledge and contributing to its formation. However, this particular lived experience, especially concerning women, has not received the recognition it deserves within the context of mainstream feminism, which has not paid attention to Adivasi/Tribal women as victims of colonial and imperialist oppression. However, the Adivasi/Tribal struggle over land rights in India is also a feminist struggle. Adivasi/Tribal feminism fails to be encapsulated by the colonial lens of the body/earth dichotomy. This paper critically analyzes narratives from the Chotanagpur (Central Plateau of India) and the Northeast region of India, capturing the Adivasi/Tribal women's worldview and their struggles to save their territory. By exploring the oral history of women-led struggles and movements, this paper argues that the theoretical framework of Adivasi/Tribal feminism emerges organically from Adivasi/Tribal perspectives about land, paving the way for a more comprehensive understanding of their struggles and aspirations. Keywords: Adivasi, Indigeneity, Adivasi/Tribal feminism, Land, Oral history, Adivasi/Tribal knowledge, India., Introduction Most of the Adivasi (3) tribal communities in India share a symbiotic relationship with land and natural resources; their lifeworld involves a close interface with land, which is reflected [...]

Feminist scholarship that brings issues regarding legal status to the forefront contributes to our understanding of the diverse and specific experiences of migration in relation to domestic and family violence. Scholars taking an intersectional approach have examined how migrant women with insecure status confront a series of barriers in their daily lives, impacting their ability to seek help and exacerbating their experiences of violence and abuse in receiving contexts, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. While existing studies have generated important findings, limited research has been conducted with victim-survivors to understand their help-seeking pathways. Drawing on interviews with 18 victim-survivors and 23 professional stakeholders, this paper seeks to contribute to existing scholarship by examining how women with insecure migration status living in Victoria, Australia, accessed support for domestic and family violence in the context of migrant precarity. The paper highlights that, despite their limited entitlements, victim-survivors sought out formal assistance and in doing so, worked with different stakeholders to negotiate a pathway towards support and safety. The study also reveals that women had different outcomes and while some were able to begin to rebuild their lives, others were faced with further legal, social and economic precarity and continued to live with the threat of removal from the country. These findings suggest that understanding women's intersectional location in society is required in the design of effective policy responses that seek to address domestic and family violence at the national level. Keywords: Domestic and family violence, migrant women, temporary migration, precarity, non-citizenship. Les etudes feministes qui mettent au premier plan les questions relatives au statut juridique contribuent a notre comprehension des experiences diverses et specifiques de la migration en relation avec la violence domestique et familiale. Les chercheurs qui adoptent une approche intersection-nelle ont examine comment les femmes migrantes ayant un statut precaire sont confrontees a une serie d'obstacles dans leur vie quotidienne, ce qui a un impact sur leur capacite a demander de l'aide et exacerbe leurs experiences de violence et d'abus dans les contextes d'accueil, tels que l'Australie, le Canada, la Nouvelle-Zelande, le Royaume-Uni et les Etats-Unis. Bien que les etudes existantes aient produit des resultats importants, peu de recherches ont ete menees aupres des victimes-survivantes pour comprendre leurs parcours de recherche d'aide. S'appuyant sur des entretiens avec 18 victimes-survivantes et 23 intervenants professionnels, cet article cherche a contribuer a la recherche existante en examinant comment les femmes au statut migratoire precaire vivant dans l'Etat de Victoria, en Australie, ont accede a l'aide pour la violence domestique et familiale dans le contexte de la precarite migratoire. L'article souligne que, malgre leurs droits limites, les victimes-survivantes ont cherche a obtenir une assistance formelle et, ce faisant, ont travaille avec differentes parties prenantes pour negocier une voie vers I'aide et la securite. L'etude revele egalement que les femmes ont eu des resultats differents et que si certaines ont pu commencer a reconstruire leur vie, d'autres ont ete confrontees a une plus grande precarite juridique, sociale et economique et ont continue a vivre avec la menace d'etre expulsees du pays. Ces resultats suggerent qu'il est necessaire de comprendre la position intersectionnelle des femmes dans la societe pour concevoir des reponses politiques efficaces visant a lutter contre la violence domestique et familiale au niveau national. Mots-cles: Violence domestique et familiale, femmes migrantes, migration temporaire, precarite, non-citoyennete., INTRODUCTION In Australia, as in other traditional countries of immigration destination, shifts in the migration priorities of the state have resulted in further restrictions on the social safety net for [...]

In several African states, postconflict contexts provide opportunities for the expansion of women's political representation. Little is known, however, about the opportunities for enhancing women's participation in politics during ongoing conflicts. We examine the relationship between conflict and women's political representation in Cameroon, which has experienced conflict in its anglophone regions since 2017. The government has responded to the challenge by introducing several new institutions. Analysis of women's political representation and responses to an online survey demonstrates that while conflict has disrupted gender relations and contributed to the growth of women's movements, the new institutions have not created significant advances for women. The ongoing conflict has provided few opportunities for women activists to embed gender equity commitments in new institutions., Introduction Postconflict African states have been leaders in women's political representation. In Burundi, Liberia, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, and elsewhere, the end of conflict is associated with gains in women's [...]

Nearly sixty years after the adoption of Title VII and over thirty since intersectionality theory was brought into legal discourse by Professor Kimberle Crenshaw, the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently [...]

Cet article analyse le leadership de Tsurumi en matiere de justice sociale a travers son etude desfeminismes et de l'histoire du Japon. Tsurumi a revele la brutalite capitaliste vecue par [...]

The story and prayer of Hannah in I Samuel 1-2, so familiar to the Jewish people as the Haftarah for the First Day of Rosh Hashanah, is a text that [...]

Dorduncu Dunya Kadin Konferansi'nda ulusal mekanizmalann kadin odakli hareket seyrinin tartismaya aqlmasi, ana akimlastirma stratejisinin bir yonetisim metodu olarak ulusat ve uluslararasi gundeme tasmmasmi saglamistir. Kadmtann guclendirilmesi amactayan Pekin Eylem Platformu, kadm - erkek arasindaki esitligin bir insan haklan meselesi; sosyal adaletin onemti bir saru ve ayni zamanda kalkmma ve bansm vazgecilmez bir onkosutu oldugunu hatirtatarak, hukumetlere ve diger aktortere toplumsal cinsiyet esitligini turn politika atanlanna yerlestirme konusunda ack cagnda bulunmustur. Bu duzlemde de kadintann ilerlemesini yaygmlastiracak politikalann diizentenmesi, uygulanmasi, yururluge konmasi, izlenmesi, degerlendirilmesi, savunulmasi ve destegin harekete gecirilmesi ybnunde beklentiter dile getirilerek, tum bunlan ustlenecek ulusal mekanizmalann heterarsik dizge icerisinde islerlik kazanabilecegi bir yonetisim modelinin kursulanmasi yerektigi belirtilmistir. Cialismarmz bu duzlemden hareketle Kuzey Kibns Turk Cumhuriyeti ozetinde ana akimlastirma stratejisinin portresini cizmeye calisacaktir. Bu baslamda kurumsal yapi olarak insa editen Toplumsal Cinsiyet Esitligi Dairesi'nin yonetisim alanindaki islevi degerlendirilerek, devlet feminizminin gelisimine bagli olarak yasallasan bu yonetimsel alanm esitligi kurumsallastirma ve eril duzeni donusturebilmedeki yetkinligi tartismaya actacaktir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Toplumsal cinsiyet esitligi, devlet feminizmi, ana akimtastintma, Kuzey Kibns Turk Cumhuriyeti. Abstract The discussion of the women-oriented movement of national mechanisms at the Fourth World Conference on Women enabled the mainstreaming strategy to be brought to the national and international agenda as a governance method. Beijing Platform for Action, which developed as an action agenda for the empowerment of women, is a human rights issue of equality between women and men; Recalling that it is an important condition of social justice and at the same time an indispensable prerequisite for development and peace, it called on governments and other actors to integrate gender equality into all policy areas. At this level, expectations were expressed for the regulation, implementation, enforcement, monitoring, evaluation, defense and mobilization of policies that will promote the advancement of women, and it was stated that a governance model should be constructed in which the national mechanisms that would undertake alt these could become operative within a heterarchic system. From this point of view, our study will try to portray the mainstreaming strategy in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. In this context, the function of the Gender Equality Department, which was built as an institutional structure, in the field of governance will be evaluated, and the competence of this administrative area, which has been legalized depending on the development of state feminism, in institutionalizing equality and transforming the masculine order wilt be discussed. Keywords: Gender equality, state feminism, mainstreaming, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus., Giris iktidar hiyerarsisi hem gercek hem hayal urunu farkliliklar uretmektedir; burilar ayni zamanda esitsizlikleri temellendiren yapilann zeminini olusturmaktadir. Ozenle cizilen bu iktidar portresinde MacKinnon' a gore farkliliklar esittir ama esitsizlikler [...]

After devoting many years to the scientific study of women's heterosexual experiences--through reading, observing, listening, and participating--I have drawn a few conclusions: 1. Many women like sex when it brings [...]

In this article I document the main German parties' 2021 election platforms regarding gender and sexuality. These manifestos contained considerably different portrayals of gendered inequalities in the Federal Republic, preferred diverse roles for the state in ameliorating gendered inequalities, and called for state action in distinct spheres. Parties also generally viewed 'women' and 'LGBTI' people as homogeneous entities rather than intersectional groups. I conclude by discussing how the differences among the Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats were reconciled in the 2021 coalition agreement. The 'traffic light' proposals for achieving gender equality differ starkly from the platforms of the Christian Democrats and the Alternative for Germany. Keywords: equality, gender, federal election, LGBTI rights, political parties, sexuality, When Angela Merkel became the first woman chancellor in 2005, parental leave was for one parent only (almost always the mother), fewer than 20 percent of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) [...]

In two case studies from Pakistan, which I then link to Afghanistan (under the Taliban before and after the Soviet/US proxy war there) as well as the Farmer's Movement in India--I wish to proffer an intersectional analysis of debates around the issue of women's rights in the global south. Feminist artivism (art-as-activism), can help build solidarities to mount resistances against globally-inflected state repression in our age of neoliberal economic and religious fundamentalisms, which, working in tandem, seek to roll back the rights of women and minorities in and across South Asia, as elsewhere. Keywords: neoliberalism, rentier capitalism, neocolonialism, imperialism, fundamentalism, artivism, women's resistance, solidarity, black feminism, Brief Overview of Neoliberal Economic Fundamentalism and its (neo)colonial underpinnings Many social scientific analyses of the global economy... are... willfully indifferent to... colonialism... [and] they ignore categories of gender and [...]

'Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for us more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival', writes Adrienne Rich in her seminal essay, 'When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision'. Rich firmly advocates that women authors should create spaces for subversion of patriarchal values and ideals through their literary works. Revisionist mythmaking, from a feminist literary perspective, evolves through challenging a preceding text which predominantly manifests androcentric ideas. The present paper aims to examine a female reinterpretation of Ramayan, Sita's Ramayana by Samhita Arni, as a revisionist text. Sita's Ramayana is a graphic narrative in which Arni's retelling is complemented by patachitra or scroll painting by Moyna Chitrakar, a female patachitra artist from West Bengal, India. Sita's character is one of the major literary tools through which women writers often attempt to review the Ramayan and subvert the male-centric reading of the epic. This paper seeks to understand the elements of revisionism in Sita's Ramayana in the context of a sixteenth century retelling of Ramayan, Chandrabati's Ramayan, a verse narrative composed by Chandrabati, the first women poet of Bengal. Chandrabati's Ramayan, a fierce Sita tale, has been the primary influence on Arni in subverting the patriarchal, popular representation of Sita's character. This paper attempts to interpret how Arni has altered the patriarchal understanding of the epic by foregrounding the tale through Sita's viewpoint. It also aims to analyse how these female authors, Arni and Chandrabati have assigned Sita's character an agency to challenge the androcentric notions that dominate the interpretation of Ramayan. Further, the paper seeks to interpret how the folk-art form of patachitra contributes to the meaning-making of a contemporary subversive retelling of the grand epic. Keywords: revision, representation, subversion, patriarchy, female retelling, Sita's Ramayan., Introduction 'Mythology in India is not just an academic or a historical subject, it is a vital and living topic of contemporary relevance. The complex social, political and religious attitudes [...]

The role of women in promoting and sustaining pastoral livelihoods remains an under-researched area across the world. Often, studies discuss pastoralism as a male-oriented enterprise, thus overshadowing or ignoring the part played by women in such livelihood practices. In India, where pastoralism itself is essentially a neglected area of research, such discussions remain even sparse. Pastoral communities depending on migratory livestock rearing practices for their livelihoods exhibit gender-based differences in their everyday life in terms of division of labour, mobility patterns, and rights over resources. Women play different roles and responsibilities at the household and community levels that remain intertwined with their pastoral livelihoods. Drawing from the available literature, we aim to synthesize the situated agency of these pastoral women in their everyday lives and their collective activism in the face of mainstream models of development. We engage in a thorough analysis from a gender perspective in this paper to discuss specific cases of Indian women and their influence on pastoral livelihoods and interests. We aim to reframe and undo the invisibility women in pastoralism have faced thus far by re-telling their stories from a gendered perspective. Key words: Pastoralism, Livelihoods, Situated Agency, Women's activism, Gendered Perspectives, India, Indian women, Pastoral women, Introduction Pastoralism involves migratory livestock rearing practices that vary according to socio-ecological landscapes resulting in a wide range of diversity. FAO (2021) defines pastoralism as an animal husbandry practice that [...]

A majority of Western (2) feminist studies has dealt with women from the third world as a homogenous entity of poor and passive victims without agency, who need saving and thus need to be spoken for. Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak have both underscored the urgency of seeing and dealing with third world feminism in terms of a genre that is different in socio-cultural background from Western dynamics, and they emphasize the importance of being wary of the ways in which Western feminism creates the 'discursive homogenization and systematization of the oppression of women in the Third World' (Mohanty, 1991). In this paper, I am going to investigate Pakistani Muslim women activism and the ways in which these women emerge from being a benign presence in a masculinist culture to occupying spaces of resistance, challenging patriarchal notions and stereotypical images of women, and thus becoming a guiding force for other women. I argue that even when Muslim women activists struggle in their respective domains to bring the voices of women into light, they are kept imprisoned in the double bind where they are judged by patriarchy at home and are perceived as victims who need saving in the western hegemonic discourses. Malala Yousafzai and Sharmeen Obaid Chinnoy are globally celebrated yet are extremely controversial in their home country. Both are accused by their fellow Pakistanis of being complicit with the Western agenda of maligning Pakistan and defaming their country. This reaction points to the double bind (Spivak) that this paper aims at highlighting, namely the ways in which women's resistance to patriarchy at home is then taken up by Western media and public as a justification for imperialist surveillance and stereotypical images of these women as victims and objects to be 'saved'. Keywords: Gendered activism, Nationalism, Resistance, Double bind, Introduction Narratives relating to the representation of Muslim women are marked by discourses of oppression and subjugation that indicate that Muslim women are victims that need saving from radical Islam/ [...]

Women face numerous political, economic, cultural, and religious barriers in the world. To remove the barriers, fight for survival, and pave their way for development, women show resistance in politics, legislation, literature, theatre, songs, marches, art, sports, movies, and seminars. The previous studies have explored patriarchy as the best reason for women's resistance to fight against male-domination, ideological divisions, policies, traditions and cultures, and religion to claim their individual identity and equality. The present study demonstrates the role of literature in awakening society and explores how writing helps in resistance and maintains the struggle of liberation for the vulnerable section of the society. It uses textual analysis to explore resistance in the writing of women from Pakistan, England, and Ireland - namely Bernardine Evaristo, Marian Keyes, and Uzma Aslam Khan. It considers English language fiction narratives as a writing tool and a 'paradigm of resistance' to society, religion, politics, patriarchy, and class. The study contributes to the emancipation of women in patriarchal societies by resisting the forces, which work to suppress women. Women's writings are strong tools of survival and resistance in male-dominant societies. Women must write in different languages to voice against injustice, inequality, and violence in the world. Keywords: Women Writings, Resistance, Violence, Injustice, Third-wave Feminism, Introduction Women across the globe are caught in a cobweb of cultural, political, economic, and religious shackles. In today's time, there is a need to rescue them from this unparalleled [...]

YouTube was one of the first platforms fuelling every layperson's dream to get a taste of stardom. Standing true to its promise, it exposed everyone to content creation and every aspect of fame that comes with content creation. The good, the bad, and the ugly side of the online platform involve the trolls and hate comments on the online platforms. It was eventually noticed that the trolling phenomena are shaping up biasedly and follow gender inequality recently. The online trolls are severe and ugly, especially for female content creators. The comments were harsh, demeaning and sometimes vindictive. Looking at this aspect of gender-specific trolling, the study aimed to explore and understand the trolling and nature of the trolls that female YouTubers encounter day-to-day. A qualitative approach was used to comprehend the argument. In-depth interviews were conducted with female content creators on YouTube. The YouTubers considered for the study were first selected by reviewing their content and their number of followers. Later they were connected individually to participate in the study. A total of fifteen female YouTubers were interviewed across different genres of beauty, lifestyle, entertainment and art. The study further dissected these female Youtubers' trolling and backlash experiences and their effect on their content output. These YouTubers have been actively using the tools provided by the platform to block out the negativity from their channels. At the same time, they have realised that it may not be easy to cut the hate comments and trolls out entirely. The conversation highlighted the impact and severity of trolls and their efforts to refocus their energies and attention on improving and creating better quality. The study will act as a reference point for future feminist scholars across disciplines and further explore online trolling phenomena. Keywords: YouTube, YouTubers, Content creators, Trolls, Introduction The online environment has encouraged netizens to convert from consumers of online content to social prosumers (Fuchs, 2013). Social media platforms have turned into an outlet of creativity for [...]

In this research, we explored the social imaginary that relates to women's sexuality based on the writings of several prominent Indonesian female authors. We argue that the social imaginary is not only a social construction but also a construct created through an individual's active participation. Historically, the social imaginary in Indonesia has been tied to nationalism; however, it has gradually shifted toward the individual perspective. In particular, this study examined the construction of the social imaginary in Indonesia by comparing and differentiating literary works created under two political regimes: the authoritarian New Order regime (1968-1998) and the more democratic Reformasi regime (1999-present), wherein individuals--especially women--were given more space and liberty to participate in the construction of the social imaginary of their sexuality. This study focused primarily on two important research questions. First, how has the social imaginary of women's sexuality, as contested by Indonesian women authors in their literary works, changed from the New Order era to the Reformasi era? And second, how has the re-emergence of religious, political, and social powers during the Reformasi era contributed to authors' contestations of women's sexuality? The content analysis of selected literary works revealed that the social imaginary of women's sexuality changed alongside the changes in Indonesia's political regimes. During the New Order era, the social imaginary was controlled by the hegemonic power of the State. In the early period of Suharto's rule, women authors were co-opted by the State's power, whereas its later years were marked by the struggles of women authors against his authoritarian government. The Reformasi era gave way for liberty in women's discussions of their sexuality, but this freedom was found to be temporary, its ephemerality compounded by new, religiously oriented conservative powers' attempts to push back against the new wave of self-expressive women authors and restore women's position to one of suppression and subordination. Keywords: Social imaginary, Women, Sexuality, New Order, Reformasi, Introduction Women's sexuality is the subject of ongoing critical discussion in numerous works of literature across societies. One aspect of understanding is by analysing the social imaginary on women's sexuality [...]

The advent of the feminist movement in the twentieth century made it possible for socially organized women to begin seeking for the recognition of their rights and the change of gender roles which were socially built. Women's rights started to be recognized as a human right. However, criteria of race and class have always been relevant, and have provided privileged positions for white women in the pursuit and attainment of rights, while black women continue to be stigmatized, remaining in the base of the social pyramid. In this regard, this paper questions: What is the relation between feminism and the cultural manifestation of samba in Rio de Janeiro in the conquering of women's emancipation these days? This study investigates the relationship between feminism and samba from the Discourse Analysis of the samba lyrics 'Abayomi', composed by the women from the EPreta project, released in their album in 2017. It seeks to identify the knowledge about human rights produced from the emancipatory cultural processes led by black women samba singers, who use the samba sung and composed by them as a tool for emancipation in human rights and for democracy today. Monica Graciela Zoppi-Fontana's work was used as a theoretical reference. In her studies, the author analyzes the discourse from the categories of the French matrix Discourse Analysis, but she adds the categories of gender and race, especially when discussing the place from where these women speak and how these bodies' markers, gender and race, provide a determining context in their discourses. Keywords: Feminism, Women's rights, Race, Culture, Samba, Discourse analysis, Rio de Janeiro, Initial Considerations Feminism has changed the context of women's participation in society. Even so, feminism did not bring the same rights for all women at the same time. Black women, [...]

This study interrogates the potentialities of policy spaces with the aim of bringing marginalized groups more concertedly into the centre of public policy engagement. By taking a feminist intersectional approach to examining the limits of classical public policy and conventional modes of public engagement, we propose a more fluid and generative understanding of policy space that encompasses both physical and social aspects and their interrelations. We then apply this understanding to our experimentation with two public engagement exercises held in Nova Scotia: a workshop and panel for disabled and Deaf women, and a podcast for rural women. Both were part of a larger project aimed at acquiring in-depth, nuanced policy feedback from several historically marginalized groups. Through our experience with these exercises--including notable successes and failures--we propose an approach to theorizing policy spaces informed by the contributions and interests of the groups in question and with an awareness of intersectional power dynamics, positionality and place. Keywords: feminist intersectionality, policy spaces, public engagement, Deaf women, women with disabilities, rural women Cette etude explore le potentiel des espaces politiques dans le but d'amener les groupes marginalises de maniere plus concertee au centre de la participation aux politiques publiques. En adoptant une approche intersectionnelle feministe pour examiner les limites des politiques publiques classiques et des modes conventionnels de mobilisation du public, nous proposons une definition plus fluide et fonctionnelle de l'espace politique qui englobe a la fois les aspects physiques et sociaux ainsi que leurs interrelations. Nous appliquons ensuite cette definition a notre recherche avec deux exercices de mobilisation du public tenus en Nouvelle-Ecosse, soit un atelier et un groupe pour les femmes handicapees et sourdes, ainsi qu'un balado pour les femmes en milieu rural. Ces deux exercices faisaient partie d'un projet plus vaste visant a obtenir des commentaires politiques approfondis et nuances de la part de plusieurs groupes historiquement marginalises. Grace a nos observations de ces exercices (y compris d'important succes et echecs), nous proposons une approche theorique des espaces politiques eclairee par les contributions et les interats des groupes en question, tout en considerant les dynamiques de pouvoir intersectionnelles, la positionnalite et le lieu. Mots-cles : intersectionnalite feministe, espaces politiques, mobilisation du public, femmes sourdes, femmes handicapees, femmes de milieu rural, Reimagining Policy Spaces: Toward Accessible and Inclusive Public Engagement In a boardroom in Ottawa, thirty 'experts' sit around a table sharing ideas about how to improve a policy field. All [...]

This study focuses on Islamist women's organizations as civil society actors. Although this research is based on a comprehensive field study covering all women's organizations and activists in Eskisehir, only the data gathered from interviews at Islamist women's organizations were analyzed for this study. The study investigates the position of Islamic women's organizations in women's movements in terms of their advocacy of women's rights and their stance against patriarchal domination in line with their understanding of the female body. The discourse of women's rights advocated in Islamist women's organizations is established concerning Islam. The discourse criticizes gender equality as a universal value and replaces it with gender justice because Islamist women believe that Western Feminism does not cover the reality of Muslim women. In line with the Islamic narration of creation, Islamist women advocate the distribution of justice according to the vital religious notion of created/given natural characteristics (fitra) of the sexes. In addition, they do not see their bodies as their own but as God's trust and are thus against abortion. Therefore, within the women's movement in Turkey, tension is growing between secular women and Islamist women, between gender equality and gender justice, causing division rather than solidarity among women. Keywords: Women's movement, third-wave feminism, Islamist women's organizations Bu calismada bir sivil toplum aktoru olarak isldma kadin brgutlerini irdetemekteyiz. Arastirma, Eskisehir'deki turn kadm brgutlerini kapsayan genis kapsamli bir saha calismasma yaslanmaktadir ancak bu makalede sadece Islama kadm brgutlerindeki gorusmelerin verileri analiz editmistir. Calismada Islama kadin brgutterinin kadm haklan savunusu ve beden kavrayislan dolayisiyla kadm bedeni uzerindeki patriarkal tahakkume yonelik durustanyla kadm hareketi icerisindeki konumlan irdelenmstir. Islama kadm brgutlerinde savunulan kadm haklan soylemi, Islam dini referansiyla kurulmakta ve evrensel deger olarak toplumsal cinsiyet esitligi etestirilerek yerine toptumsal cinsiyet adaleti yerlestirilmeye calisilmaktadir. Bati Feminizminin Mijsluman kadm gercekligini kapsamadigi ve Islam'm yaradilis bgretisi geregi, cinslerin fitri bzelliklerine gore adatet dagitimi savunulnmaktadir. Itaveten, kadmlar bedenterine kendilerine ait olarak gormemekte ve Islami bakisla 'emanet' beden algisi nedeniyle kurtaj karsiti olduklan gorulmektedir. Boylelikle, Turkiye'deki kadm hareketi icehsinde sekuler kadmlar ile Islama kadmlar arasmda toptumsal cinsiyet esitligi ile toptumsal cinsiyet adaleti arasmda onemli bir geritim uretilmekte; kadmlar arasmda dayanismadan ziyade bolunmelere ve aynsmalara yot actigi gorulmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: kadm hareketi, ucuncu dalga feminizm, Islama kadin orgutleri., Introduction During the 1980s in Turkey, while the Islamist political movements were on the rise, Islamist women became active within the movement, coming under the spotlight of the media, especially [...]

Yeni medya mecralan, iletisim sureglerinin en onemli asamalanndan biri olan geri bildirimleri en gercek ve en hizli haliyle kaynaga sunmasi bakimindan son donemde oldukca tercih edilir hale gelmistir. Bugun, ozellikle YouTube gibi platformlann gijncel izleme pratiklerini donusturdugu soylenebilir. Fakat bu mecralarda yayinlanan videolar, ierigi ne olursa olsun, izleyicinin kendi kimligini gizleme imkani da sundugundan ve herhangi bir sansur mekanizmasi bulunmadigmdan yapilan yorumlarda toplumsal cinsiyete dayali cinsiyetci soylemleri daha kolay yayilabilir hale de getirebilmektedir. Calismada, yapimci Armagan Caglayan'in YouTube'da yayinlamak uzere hazirlayip sundugu Gor Beni adli programinda kadin gazeteci Nevsin Mengu'nlin konuk oldugu bollime yapilan yorumlar, toplumsal cinsiyet perspektifinden icerik analizi yontemiyle incelenmistir. Cinsiyete yonelik soylemlerde erkek ya da kadin kullanicilann oranlan, kullamcilann kimtiklerini acik olarak kullamp kullanmadiklan, cinsiyetci soylemin bir hakaret ya da bilincsiz bir ovgu unsuru olarak kullanilmasi da arastirmaya dahil edilen konular arasindadir. Arastirmada elde edilen bulgular, kadin gazetecilere yonelik cinsiyetci soylemlerin korumaci ya da dusmanca azalarak da olsa devam ettigini ortaya koymustur. Bu arastirmamn, yeni medya mecralannda yayinlanan icerikler araciligiyla kadin gazetecilerin maruz kaldigi cinsiyetci soylemlerin kaynaklan ve yaklasimlar konusunda bir perspektif sunabilecegi dusunulmektedir. Keywords: toplumsal cinsiyet, siberfeminizm, kadin gazeteciler, yeni medyada kadin. Recently, new media channels have become highly preferred in terms of presenting feedback, which is one of the most important stages of communication processes, to the source in the most real and fastest way. Today, it can be said that platforms such as YouTube have transformed current viewing practices. However, the videos published in these channels, regardless of the content, and since there is no censorship mechanism, can also make gender-based sexist discourses more easily spread in the comments, since they also offer the viewer the opportunity to hide their own identity. In the study, the comments made on the episode where the female journalist Nevsin Mengu was the guest of the program called See Me, prepared and presented by producer Armagan Caglayan to be broadcast on YouTube, have been analyzed from a gender perspective with content analysis method. The rates of male or female users in gender-oriented discourses, whether the users openly use their identities, and the use of sexist discourse as an insult or an unconscious compliment are among the subjects included in the research. It is thought that this research can provide a perspective on the sources of sexist discourses that women journalists are exposed to through the contents published in new media channels. Anahtar Kelimeler: gender, cyberfeminism, women journalists, women in the new media., Giris Yeni medya teknolojilerinin hayatimiza girmesiyle birlikte hem iletisim sureclerinde, hem de toplumsal yasamin dinamiklerinde buyuk donusumler meydana gelmistir. Ozellikle medya urlinlerinin hedef kitlesi olan izteyicilerin daha aktif bir konuma [...]

India, a mosaic of ethnic, religious, linguistic, and social factions, exhibits unity in diversity. As a result, Indian women come from diverse cultures, terrains, religions, and classes. They perform diverse social roles and have varied lived experiences, which augment assorted issues. Consequently, a review of the literature on Indian feminism highlights its complicacy. Mukhopadhyay (2016) explains that Indian feminism, which was primarily initiated by men (Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Jyotirao Phule, and others) mainly focussed on the abolition of evil practices like Sati, Purdah, polygamy, child marriage, illiteracy, and the rest. The concept of 'Intersectionality' and intersectional oppression was neither known nor understood hence not represented by Indian feminists. In such a situation, adhering to the maxim 'Personal is Political,' it became the duty of the women, whose gender intersects with caste to represent their unique lived experiences. This paper attempts to gain insight into the world of Dalit women through the exploration of their select writings. P. Sivakami's The Grip of Change, Bama's Sangati, and Meena Kandaswami's poetry anthology Touch are used as literary study tools. The study demonstrates how the narratives of Dalit women provide a unique concept of 'Indian intersectionality,' where their social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and disadvantage making them vulnerable to violence. The study may help us to understand approaches to the prevention of violence against Dalit women. Keywords: Caste, gender, intersectionality, vulnerability, violence, silence, impunity, Dalit women, India, feminism, Introduction: Indian Feminism and Intersectionality Unlike the western Feminist movement, Indian feminism was initiated by men (Chaudhuri 2005). Social reformers (2) stood for abolishing Sati (3) , Purdah (4) , [...]

The mediator between people all over the world is language, and translation is the means by which we can cross borders. Translation can play an important role in moving towards a common livable world of coexistence and transnationality. Feminist translation theory emerged from the shared struggle women and translation experience; it criticizes the concepts that place both women and translation at the bottom of the literary and social scale. 'La liberation des femmes passe par le language' is a famous saying among women of the 1970s feminist movement which indicates that women must be first liberated from language. And since translation is made of language, it is considered by feminist thought to be the best field in which they can nourish language. A critique of sexism in language goes through several stages: it corrects the vocabulary, examines the feminine symbols in language, and gives voice to gender in language since gendered language is responsible for creating misinterpretations. Hence, in this paper I am going to examine the intersection between feminism and translation. I will investigate how feminist translation can give birth to reformist recreations of an original text that is dominantly masculine by recovering the feminine that is obscured and made invisible by masculine grammar. In addition, I will also discuss how translation gives another life to the original text by using different strategies to make gender visible in the text's language so that women can be heard. Finally, I am going to discuss women's translation of the sacred by comparing two feminist translations of the Quran. Keywords: Translation, Transnationality, Gender, Sacred, Comparativism, Feminism, Introduction 'Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.'-Ken Liu Translation is the best literary means of expression for gender oppression. During the English Renaissance, women largely participated in [...]

ABSTRACT There are over thirty million people ages forty-four to fifty-five in the civilian labor force in the United States, but the law and legal scholarship are largely silent about [...]

The introduction to the special issue of JAF 'Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms' approaches Latinx folklore studies from transnational feminist perspectives. The issue engages with folklore key terms used by researchers, community members, public sector workers, artists, and activists. By using an extended metaphor of aquatic movements, the introduction elucidates how lexical discontinuities and connections allow for a transparent conversation of intellectual and/or ethnographic distortions, and it acknowledges the power of writing as process and the politics of remapping the field of contemporary folklore studies. In this model, a metaphor of affective transcultural cartographies is employed to frame ideas in and of racialized spaces. The authors also discuss the poetics and historical entanglements of folklorists and postcolonial thought with the Enlightenment, and how these vexed and intimate relations are situated in language, culture, and power. The introduction summarizes the keyword essays that follow and also poses some questions about future work in folklore studies based on similar approaches. Keywords AFS ETHNOGRAPHIC THESAURUS: Language, disciplines, theory, social dynamics, bodies of water, politics, LONG CONSIDERED THE BASIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT of hemispheric postcolonial and queer theory, volumes like This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color illustrate the power of [...]

En marzo de 2015, un grupo de escritoras e investigadoras feministas en Argentina organizó) una maraton de lectura pública, con la consigna 'Ni Una Menos', para protestar contra los femicidios. Menos de tres meses después, más de 250.000 argentinos participaron en la primera manifestation de #NiUnaMenos en Buenos Aires. Desde entonces, #NiUnaMenos se ha transformado en un movimiento feminista transnacional y ha cambiado la conversation acerca de la violencia de género, en espacios digitales y físicos. Partiendo del análisis crítico del discurso y la teoría feminista, este artículo examina las estrategias discursivas de #NiUnaMenos. Este proyecto analiza los textos claves del periodo antes de la primera manifestation y propone que estos textos fueron construidos estratégicamente como 'sitios de lucha' para llegar a grupos diversos. Mi análisis revela cuatro 'dicotomías discursivas' en las cuales el discurso del movimiento oscila entre ideas y canales que parecen ser opuestos. Esta oscilacion discursiva ayude) a #NiUnaMenos a llegar a la gente y comenzo un cambio cultural hacia la igualdad de género. Palabras clave: feminismo; análisis crítico del discurso; medios digitales; movimientos sociales; #NiUnaMenos In March 2015, a group of feminist writers and academics in Argentina organized a marathon reading event to protest femicide, using the slogan 'Ni Una Menos.' Less than three months later, more than 250,000 Argentines participated in the first #NiUnaMenos demonstration in Buenos Aires. Since then, #NiUnaMenos has transformed into a transnational feminist movement and has shifted the conversation about gender violence in digital and physical spaces. Drawing from critical discourse analysis and feminist theory, this article examines the discursive strategies employed by #NiUnaMenos. It analyzes key texts from the months leading up to the first demonstration and argues that these texts were strategically constructed as 'sites of struggle' in order to reach diverse groups. The analysis reveals four discursive dichotomies in which the movement's discourse oscillates between seemingly opposing ideas and channels. This discursive oscillation allowed #NiUnaMenos to reach the masses and, in turn, spark a cultural shift toward gender equality. Keywords: feminism; critical discourse analysis; digital media; social movements; #NiUnaMenos, The Argentine feminist movement #NiUnaMenos originated in part from a marathon reading event (maratón de lectura) in March 2015 in which writers, journalists, activists, academics, and artists spoke out against [...]

Intersectionality's enormous success raises questions about its purchase as a critical methodology outside the context of its origin, as to how it has taken on meaning and use in Global South contexts. Its widespread espousal across disciplines within Western academia itself compels one to ask whether curricula--and how these are transacted in classrooms--are informed by its analytic insight, and if so, what are the challenges in enacting it as critical pedagogy. In this paper, I bring into conversation key Anglo-American and Indian feminist scholars writing about intersectionality and reflect on my own methodological and pedagogical engagements with it in India and the UK to address these questions. I demonstrate how intersectionality has given me the lens and the language to reveal how Dalit women today not only speak differently from Dalit men and upper-caste women but that differences are emerging amongst them in terms of class and level of political consciousness. I also show how intersectionality can be and needs to be used as critical pedagogy for the urgent task of decolonising feminist classrooms in the British higher education context. Keywords: Intersectionality, Global South, Dalit women, Decolonising knowledge, Feminist classroom, Introduction Coined by Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), 'intersectionality' was meant to render visible the experiences of women of colour otherwise falling through the cracks of feminist and anti-racist discourses in North [...]

The first self-declared Nigerian feminist organization was founded under the name of Women in Nigeria (WIN) at a meeting in Zaria in May 1982. WIN was a left-wing movement including women and men. This article seeks to shed light on knowledge production in the field of feminism and gender studies in Nigeria, focusing on WIN's texts and discourses. Approaching knowledge production from the perspective of social history, my analysis examines the biographical trajectories of the association's activists, the ways in which their journeys influenced the use of global knowledge and the production of 'situated knowledges', and how intellectual work operated together with the social and ideological struggles of the time. I examine the multilateral, and indeed unequal, knowledge circulations between the Global North and the Global South as well as the logic of coproduction and reinvention of frameworks for globalized theories at the local level, all happening during a period (the 1980s) marked by the progressive globalization of the social sciences. This reflection begins by looking at the context in which the association emerged, its members, and the debates that led to its creation in Nigeria. It then goes on to explore how the association's activists used the concept of gender. It presented a challenge at a time when the differences between gender and sex were still not taken for granted. The final section examines the ways in which WIN members articulated a pioneering rhetoric surrounding the need to study the intermingling of various power relations to understand women's oppression in the country and create a more complex approach to gender-based analysis. The article illustrates how WIN managed to establish itself as a concrete site for knowledge production in the fields of gender studies and feminism, formulating an innovative and locally situated feminist epistemology. The example it sets serves as an invitation to decenter the Global North as the primary perspective regarding knowledge production in gender studies and feminist epistemologies and, conversely, to pay attention to feminist theory formulated by activist and academic circles based in the Global South. Keywords: Gender, Intersectionality, Knowledge production, Nigeria, Left-wing approaches, Feminism, Introduction Burdened by her role as mother, overburdened by domestic labour and household chores, the woman is left with very little energy to pursue any income generating work or to [...]

One of the important ways that feminists in South Africa have generated knowledge and theory is through an independent feminist journal, AGENDA, that was founded in 1987. In this article, I discuss the history of AGENDA and analyze the type of feminist knowledge that AGENDA produces as a feminist journal of the Global South and specifically Africa. I also show how African feminism and intersectionality have always been the two core dimensions of knowledge production in AGENDA through the analysis of two trilogies: one on African feminism and one on African sexuality to show how knowledge is used to create new theories. I also reflect on the South/North divide and hegemonic thinking from the North. What the analysis reflects is the resistance against hegemonic thinking, the invention of new concepts, as well as new theorization and hybrid theories that draw on the Northern theories at the same time as it disrupts them. Keywords: Global South, Knowledge production, AGENDA journal, African feminisms, Introduction 'The South' locates one in a way that becomes an invisible marker of difference and often of inferiority. Those of us who are Southern feminists (inside and outside the [...]

This study looks at how Disney princess films perpetuate sexist tropes through language. By focusing on both feminism and linguistics, it uses an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by data analysis and media criticism. This paper uses a content analysis study of The Little Mermaid (1989) and Mulan (1998) to look at Disney's role in shaping representations of women, and how this representation has shifted within the decade of the release of these two films. This paper answers the question: in what ways does language in media perpetuate sexist tropes; more specifically, how has the language of male characters in media perpetuated misogyny. The content analysis looks at aspects of gender representation by grouping female and male characters separately in three observable categories. These are: the number of characters speaking more than 50 words of dialogue, the percentage of dialogue spoken by each gender, and the total number of sexist expressions used by each gender. Sexist language is further categorised in two parts. The first is discriminatory language used by men about women, and the second is discriminatory language used by women about men. Data analysis shows that there are more male characters than female characters; male characters make up more of the spoken dialogue and male characters use more sexist language than female characters. This paper argues, that although Disney has come a long way in making the female characters independent and strong on their own, they fail to identify the main problem of female representation, which is language used by males. In using feminist critical theory to criticise the two adaptations, this paper identifies the ways media perpetuates gender discrimination through language, propagating the subjugation of women, and how this has not changed in the decade between the release of the two films. Keywords: Gender, Discrimination, Feminism, Language, Disney, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Introduction: Feminism, Language & Disney Different groups of feminists--radical, liberal, cultural, Marxist--work towards unique goals within the feminist agenda and have made valuable contributions to the lives of women as [...]

This in-depth conversation with Jennifer Christine Nash, the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, USA, aims to illuminate the complexities of intersectionality in feminist discourse. This interview focuses on Nash's work and perspectives on intersectionality in relation to gender, class, race, sexuality, and hierarchies of power and privilege. This interview discusses precarity, vulnerability, and intersectionality in black feminist discourse, as well as the marginalisation of black women's heterogeneity, the politics of reading associated with intersectionality, and the relationship between temporality and intersectionality. Additionally, this conversation discusses Nash's monograph, Black Feminism Reimagined (2019), post-intersectionality theory, the relationship between intersectionality and transnationalism, and intersectionality in feminist futuristic discourse. Keywords: Black Feminism, Intersectionality, Gender, Postfeminism, Race, Introduction Intersectionality, a concept proposed in the United States by black feminist scholars, activists, and thinkers, examines the experiences of women who are impacted by the privileges and limitations associated [...]

Nightingale displayed a particular brand of feminism that reflected the circumstances of her era. The question of women's involvement in healthcare is addressed through an analysis of Nightingale's most famous work, Notes on Nursing. What it is, and what it is not (1859/60). Then other key works are scrutinised with reference to ideas about female involvement in healthcare and how she addresses the position of women in general terms. (2) Nightingale's works, Notes on Hospitals (1859); Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Truth among the Artisans of England (1860); Introductory Notes on Lying-In Institutions (1871) are focussed upon illustrating her views on women's involvement in healthcare and answering the overarching question: was and how was she feminist? (3) Keywords: Feminism, Feminist critique, Women in healthcare, Nightingale as feminist, History of healthcare, Florence Nightingale, Introduction Unlike the statue in Rhodes of Helios, known locally as the Colossus, destroyed by earthquake, this writer has no desire to bring down the Colossus that is Florence Nightingale. [...]

There are different feminist perspectives of education which focus on women's empowerment. Some of these perspectives address instrumental and intrinsic circumstances influencing motivations and choices for schooling, whilst others look into the role of schooling in shaping and constraining perceptions of empowerment and self-esteem among women. There are also studies which look into the role of the school system in reproducing gender divisions and oppression. As a result, many educational researchers and feminists are concerned about the influence of the family and school systems on women's/girl's roles, self-esteem and aspirations. This paper is based on a qualitative case study which analyzes the impact of the schooling process on girls' educational aspirations and gender inequality in the disadvantaged communities in Sudan. The data was collected by means of in-depth interviews, life history journals and focused group discussions. The sample comprised 30 teenage girls between the ages of 12-20 years at two disadvantaged communities' basic schools in Juba and Khartoum, Sudan. This paper looks at the effects of structure and socio-cultural practices of mixed schools on girls' educational aspirations, perceptions and inequalities and their implications for the conceptualization of gender within an empowerment framework. In this paper it is argued that whilst education is perceived as a means of women's liberation and empowerment, it can also have negative effects on girls' educational aspirations and expectations. The paper concludes that schooling perpetuates gender inequalities through schooling system as well it shapes girls' educational aspirations among disadvantaged communities in Sudan. This study concludes that girls' educational aspirations and perceptions are constructed and shaped within the gender role socialization and the traditional and patriarchal social system in Sudan. The home and the school environments in disadvantaged communities of Sudan appear to reinforce gender inequality in the manner in which parents and teachers treat children. The entrenched socio-cultural practices and pressures seem to impact negatively on the school girls' educational aspirations, expectations and self-esteem. Keywords: Educational Aspirations, Schooling, Gender Inequalities, Gender Roles, perception, empowerment, Introduction The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it explores and analyzes the relationship between educational aspirations and schooling in disadvantaged communities in Sudan. Secondly, it examines the impact [...]

This paper discusses the social reasons for agoraphobia as a psychological disorder as observed in the women characters of British playwright Sue Townsend's issue-based play Bazaar and Rummage (1982). The depiction of three agoraphobic women in a context characterised by patriarchal dominion constitutes the core of Townsend's play. Although their problematic condition is presented rather comically, from their accounts, it seems apt to argue that societal oppression is the reason for their long-lasting seclusion and constant fear of the outside world. The play offers a rummage sale as an opportunity for women to step outside and conquer their fear. Accordingly, in terms of presenting the psychological condition of women characters and associating the possible solution to their problem with a market occasion, Townsend's play illustrates an example of feminist criticism. In this study, the play's analysis is based on the 1980s context dominated by Thatcher politics, and Townsend's portrayal of agoraphobia is discussed as a criticism of her society in which patriarchal hegemony plays a central role in women's forced confinement. Keywords: Sue Townsend, Bazaar and Rummage, issue-based play, agoraphobia, patriarchal oppression, feminist criticism, Thatcher. Bu makale, Sue Townsend'in problem odakli oyunlarindan Bazaar and Rummage (1982) (Carsi Pazar)'daki kadin karakterlerde gozlemlenen agorafobinin sosyal sebeplerini tartismaktadir. Townsend'in oyunu, erkek egemenligin hukum surdugu bir sosyal cercevede uc agorafobik kadini ele alir. Kadinlarin bu sorunu mizahi bir yolla resmedilse de hikayelerinden anlasildigi uzere onlarin suregelen inzivasi ve dis dunyadan cekinmelerinin sebebinin toplumsal baski oldugunu soylemek mumkundur. Oyunda, bu karakterlerin disari cikmasi ve korkularini yenmesi icin bir firsat olarak ikinci el satis pazari duzenlenir. Bu dogrultuda, Townsend'in oyunu, kadinlarin psikolojik sorunlarini ele almasi ve onlarin problemlerine muhtemel bir cozum olarak bir satis ortami sunmasi bakimindan feminist elestiriye bir ornektir. Bu calismada, kadinlarin yasadiklari sorun, Thatcher siyasetinin goruldugu 1980 yillarina dayandirilmaktadir ve Townsend'in agorafobiyi ele alisi, erkek hegemonyasinin kadinlarin eve kapanmasinda onemli bir rol oynadigini gostermek uzere tartisilmaktadir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Sue Townsend, Carsi Pazar, problem odakli oyun, agorafobi, erkek baskisi, feminist elestiri, Thatcher., Introduction Agoraphobia, as a psychological disorder, is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as; [a]nxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be [...]

Academics have overlooked feminist movements in Russia, allowing struggling women's rights organizations to overshadow the many achievements of Russian feminists. Scholarship has reported on struggling women's rights organizations, citing Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist protest punk rock group, as an exceptional case and concluding that the overall situation with feminism in Russia is desperate. Even though recent publications acknowledge some feminist mobilizations, they are still judged insufficient. Why is contemporary Russian feminism continuously 'not enough' for outside observers? And is it 'enough' for its members? In this paper, I argue that one of the major reasons why feminists outside Russia, as well as other observers have tended to downplay or disregard the feminist movement in Russia, even in the face of real and successful feminist organizing, is a discourse on movements that centers contentious politics. Defining movements in terms of public protest and claims-making to the state, this discourse is, I argue, at odds with the feminist movement's actual goals and preferred tactics. To explore feminists' attitudes towards and definitions of useful tactics and goals, I draw upon qualitative interviews with feminist activists. Although feminists consider contentious action as their duty, their relationship to this set of tactics is fraught with contradictory political legacies. At the same time, in reflections in which tactics are useful and within the movement's overarching goals, it is cultural and discursive action, framed as education and awareness-raising, that comes to the fore. I argue that considerations of feminism in Russia require a broader conceptual focus which is more in line with the contents and aims of feminist politics. Based on my empirical findings, I suggest that an approach centering on collective identity is better suited to understand the contemporary feminist movement in Russia and its increasing successes. Keywords: Feminism in Russia, Feminist movements, Contentious politics, Discursive activism, Introduction Since at least the mid-2000s, a mass grassroots feminist movement has been rapidly growing in Russia. Dozens of feminist collectives across the country now regularly hold rallies and demonstrations, [...]

This article analyses the novel Generation 14 by Priya Sarukkai Chabria from a convergent perspective of Dalit Studies (which encapsulates Dalit literature and Dalit feminism) and science fiction. I suggest that Indian science fiction that discusses caste with reference to the emerging technoscientific culture can be termed Dalit-futurism. I define this concept by drawing on the tradition of Dalit literature and science fiction and suggest that the Dalit-futurist texts seek to mutate caste to foreground its arbitrary structure. This paper uses the vocabulary of science-fiction criticism to analyze the mutation of caste in the fictional world and draws parallels with our social reality. It suggests that the social divisions in the fictional world echo the Brahmanical patriarchy of the Indian subcontinent. I theorize that the convergence of Dalit-futurism with feminist theory results in a new and transformative feminist configuration termed 'Dalit-futurist feminism'. I explicate Dalit-futurist feminism through the cyborg figure, which I suggest shares overlapping themes and concerns with the Dalit feminist standpoint theory, conceptualized by Sharmila Rege and Cyborg feminism conceptualized by Donna Haraway. I suggest that the main protagonists, Aa-Aa and Clone 14/54/G, embody the intersectional, revisionist, and inclusive feminism advocated by Rege and Haraway, arguing for an affiliation-based politics that rejects women's unity based on essentialized identities like sex, class, race, and caste and uncover the constructive nature of social processes that maintain and reproduce hierarchies, inequalities, and oppression. Keywords: Dalit literature, Dalit feminism, Cyborg feminism, Indian science fiction, Dalit-futurism, Dalit-futurist feminism, Introduction This paper re-reads Priya Sarukkai Chabria's Generation 14 (2008), an Indian Science Fiction (ISF) novel, in conversation with Dalit feminism. I suggest that this unique alliance has the potential [...]

In the patriarchal milieu of Kerala, the woman's world is overshadowed by male suppression and cowed silence; the Dalit woman, however, seems to never take it lying down. As is evident from the Channar revolt of the 19th century, Dalit women have never been silent victims in history. This is in stark contrast to the upper-caste women who tend to succumb to caste patriarchy in silence. Drawing on the Channar or Shannar women's historic revolt for the right to cover their breasts, this paper engages with the question of Dalit women's agency in the social reform movements during the period of the Kerala renaissance. Dalit women have been essentialized into silence in Dalit and 'Dalitist' writings. The writings of gendered Dalits characterize the emergence of Dalit women's voices in literary discourses. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the newly emergent Dalit feminism in Kerala has an unrecorded and unrecognized tradition of its own in the early caste struggles such as the Channar revolt. By problematizing the elite historians' sanctioned silence regarding the revolt, the role Dalit women played in it, and arguing how it amounts to the erasure of Dalit women's agency in history, this paper explicates how the Dalit as female is catapulted historically into the liminality of (non)existence. This paper seeks to rectify the erasures by surfacing the tradition of the historical assertion of the gendered caste subaltern. It is hoped that such an epistemological effort will strengthen the cause of Dalit Feminism. Keywords: 'Dalitist,' Dalit feminist, Gendered Dalits, Channar Revolt, Renaissance, Erasure, Dalit women's agency, Caste patriarchy, Silences., Introduction There are many instances in history like the Channar Lahala or (Channar (3) Revolt) when Dalit women were at the forefront of vehement strikes against the illogical and inhuman [...]

This paper argues that the incorporation of aspects of multiples cultures in hybridity by African female postcolonial characters allows for an improvement in 'women's fallback position and bargaining power within a patriarchal structure, and, identify different causal pathways of change; material, cognitive, perceptual and relational' (Rahman 11). Hybridity, here, is the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone created by patriarchy and elements of misogyny. Considering the interwoven-ness of hybridity and feminism, this paper interrogates hybridity as empowerment, foregrounding the several ways female characters in Purple Hibiscus and Americanah have been able to appropriate hybridity to their advantage, to bring about more respect, satisfaction, sociopolitical freedom, and self-reliance for themselves. It does this using the phenomenological approach in tandem with Obioma Nnemeka's conception of Nego-feminism and postcolonial notions of hybridity and identity as given by Gayatri Spivak and Stuart Hall., INTRODUCTION Toward the middle of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, Aunty Ifeoma, Eugene's sister, tells his wife Beatrice to be assertive by exercising greater control over her life [...]

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) encompasses social, economic, and environmental commitments within a single global framework. However, experts have been warning that the ambitious nature of Agenda 2030's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) might be lost in indicator-driven implementation. This article examines the assumption that SDG indicators result in policy shrinking (offering a less ambitious framing) by exploring how the framing of Agenda 2030's gender commitments shifts from SDGs to their indicators. Employing critical frame analysis, this article shows that SDG global indicators result in policy shrinking of gender-specific targets in terms of their 1) human rights framing 2) overall scope, and 3) inclusivity of target groups. This policy shrinking docs not necessarily undermine Agenda 2030, but it does call for greater attention, especially by actors promoting gender equality, to national interpretations of specific SDG targets and the inclusivity of otherwise marginalized policy target groups. Keywords agenda 2030--Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)--gender equality--policy evaluation--feminist policy, 1 Introduction: Agenda 2030 as a Monitoring and Evaluation Conundrum (1) The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (hereafter, Agenda 2030) represents the first global governance framework elaborated and approved by [...]