In sub-Saharan Africa, the discipline of women’s and gender studies has made dramatic inroads into the academy through the development of degree-granting undergraduate and graduate programs, the creation of research centers and institutes, and the growth of African feminist theory. Using Uganda as a case study, we can look to the oldest program of its kind in Africa to trace the birth of the discipline on the continent. The history of women’s and gender studies in Uganda speaks to ways in which the discipline in the Global South has, since its inception, been entrenched in transnational feminism and an intersectional curriculum rooted in indigenous feminisms.
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Ernstberger, Adrianna L.
The gender blindness of good theorists
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Dahan-Kalev, Henriette
The gender blindness of good theorists
Author wants to discuss issues of marginality and gender in Israeli society and uses 'Not Naturally Inept But Socialized to be Inept' by Shlomo Swirski (1981) as a sounding board. Author's aim is to discuss a number of issues connected with gender blindness that are prevalent in sociological studies about Israeli society and uses ideas of some feminist theorists in order to uncover the gender blindness that Swirski exhibits in his book.
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Dahan-Kalev, Henriette
Tension in intersectional agency: a theoretical discussion of the interior conflict of white, feminist activists’ intersectional location
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Huijg, Dieuwertje Dyi
Tension in intersectional agency: a theoretical discussion of the interior conflict of white, feminist activists’ intersectional location
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Huijg, Dieuwertje Dyi
Politics of/and Backlash
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Braithwaite, Ann
Politics of/and Backlash
Since Susan Faludi published her book with the same title in 1991 the term 'backlash' has become an often used and popular term in feminist analyses and representations of women in popular culture along with the term 'postfeminism'. Author explores how these terms in feminist theorizing might offer ways to open up a debate around feminism.
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Braithwaite, Ann
Her mistress's voice
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Keskinen, Mikko
Her mistress's voice
The metaphors of voice in the discourses of feminisms as articulated by Judith Fetterley, Kaja Silverman, Julia Kristeva, and Hélène Cixous are being traced. Mikko Keskinen, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, analises the presuppositions of their vocal or sound imagery, paying special attention to the implications of the essentialism/constructivism opposition. Moreover, in spite of their differences in cultural background, period, and main area of study, the four theorists to be read are, as it were, within earshot from each other, centering, whether anglo- or francophone, around the phónè, the voice.
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Keskinen, Mikko
Is women's studies dead?
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Zalewski, Marysia
Is women's studies dead?
This article considers criticisms of women's studies and reviews the arguments for and against its termination. Author, who teaches in a Women's studies center, argues for its continuation.