Feminism - Topics

How the class makeup of suffrage societies shaped what they demanded Is self-defense training empowerment or just shifting the burden? Why femininity is so often defined by what it refuses to be How hard it was for suffrage societies to survive on dues and bazaars Why feminine and feminist keep getting pitted against each other What Rubin's sex and gender system explained and what it missed How feminist theory became an academic discipline of its own How the third wave grew out of the second wave's own critics Who gets to define empowerment in a donor-funded project? Why the first wave of the women's movement focused on the vote and property Where the slogan sisterhood is powerful came from The critique that sisterhood ignored race and class How consciousness-raising groups became the movement's basic form Why the 1960s revival of the women's movement turned to job discrimination and reproductive rights What CEDAW actually commits a country to change Why negotiation advice puts the burden on women instead of employers Where the tension between civil rights and women's liberation came from How women lawyers pushed domestic violence statutes through Why the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality aimed at housework How the concept of the other was used after Beauvoir What went wrong once intersectionality became a mandatory citation Why standpoint theory says knowledge comes from a position How Patricia Hill Collins's matrix of domination differs from intersectionality Choosing singlehood over settling: how women describe the trade Why still single is still said like a diagnosis What is masculism and how does it differ from feminism? Reclaiming femininity after years of treating it as weakness How do masculists answer the claim that men already hold all the power? The 1980s sex wars: anti-pornography against sexual freedom From Seneca Falls 1848 to the 1979 convention: the long road of women's rights claims How citation politics decides who counts as a feminist theorist The International Council of Women and the first wave of global organizing