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Sexuality and Resistance: Rethinking Prostitution and Agency Through Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero [PDF]

Uirtus
This article examines El Saadawi’s depiction of prostitution in Woman at Point Zero and its implications for contemporary debates on agency, autonomy and exploitation. Through feminist frameworks including abolitionist feminism, sex-positive feminism and
Mamadou Ba
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Weaving strength and care: Situated reflections on women's work and the epistemology of care in biological anthropology

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
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Feminismus, kapitalismus a lest dějin [PDF]

Gender a Výzkum, 2009
Building on historical narrative and social-theoretical analysis, Fraser explores the place of second-wave feminism in relation to three specific moments in the history of capitalism. The first point refers to the movement’s beginnings in the context of ‘
Nancy Fraser
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Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima, Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Alexandra Brewis, Neetu Choudhary, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich   +7 more
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Motherhood as a Creative Power in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Sakarya Üniversitesi Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
This study “Motherhood as a creative power in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” attempts to analyse Alice Walker’s ideas of motherhood by putting mothering in the centre of feminism and tries to understand how it empowers different female characters to ...
Turkan Elbayiyeva
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“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
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MELAWAN EKSPLOITASI TUBUH ANTARA FEMINISME BARAT DAN ISLAM

Muwazah
This paper discusses about one of the major themes in the movement and thought in Western feminism namely the issue of the exploitation of women's bodies. The modern feminism was born in the context of Western civilization.
Ayub
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Encountering anthropologists through body‐mapping: On risk‐taking, experimentation and solidarity in the neoliberal university

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article turns a workshop session and the university as a locus of knowledge production into objects of ethnographic investigation. The authors reflect on our experience co‐facilitating a body‐mapping session with a group of anthropologists of different backgrounds, ages and career stages—all women—from universities across Europe, during a
Koreen M. Reece, Magdalena Suerbaum
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Quiet activism as feminist practice

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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Two Shades of Green? Gender Differences in Environmental Concern and Activism

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines gender differences in environmental concern and activism using data from the World Values Survey. The results indicate that women are more likely than men to be concerned about the environment, but are less likely to engage in environmental activism.
Hava Orkut, Caroline Perrin
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