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Tainted Goods?: Western Feminism and the Asian Experience

Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 2001
The perception in some quarters that feminism in Asia is "tainted goods" leads one to ponder whether feminism is tainted just because it is imported or whether there is something inherently rotten in feminism itself that makes it tainted? Certainly many women American as well as Asian have rejected the term `feminist.
G. Chanda, N. Owen
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A critical analysis of TERF politics in South Korea: The contradictory constructions of “Western feminism” and its legitimizing effects

Asian Journal of Women's Studies
This paper investigates how the Korean TERF movement constructs and positions itself in relation to “Western feminism” to legitimize its anti-trans ideology.
Jieun Kim
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Critical Waves: Exploring Feminist Identity, Discourse and Praxis in Western Feminism

Social Movement Studies, 2015
Elizabeth Evans, Prudence Chamberlain
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Contested Feminisms: Women’s Religious Leadership and the Politics of Contemporary Western Feminism

Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 2016
Feminism is a relatively recent social movement of radical reform, emerging from the mass political movements of democratisation, secularisation and liberalism that swept across the western world from the 17th century onwards. The first wave of organised feminist political action was articulated in the abolitionist, temperance and suffrage movements in
K. McPhillips
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Feminism Across Borders: A Hungarian Adaptation of Western Feminism

Sex Roles, 2005
A grounded theory model of feminist-activist identity development was constructed from semistructured interviews with volunteers of the first Women’s Rights Association (NANE) in Hungary. This article focuses on NANE volunteers’ feminist identity development, which emerged through interpersonal solidarity with Western women; the development of self ...
Susan S. Mathews, S. Horne, H. Levitt
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Importing/applying western feminism

Women's Studies International Forum, 1999
Abstract This article describes a 4-year linkage project (1992–1996) between the University of Indonesia and the Memorial University, Canada, to establish a Women's Studies Programme at the University of Indonesia. The proposal of the Canadian International Development Agency (main Canadian government funding agency) contained the inherent assumption
Saparinah Sadli, M. Porter
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Feminism and the Western in Film and Television

, 2018
Mark E. Wildermuth
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#DearSister and #MosqueMeToo: adversarial Islamic feminism within the Western-Islamic public sphere

Feminist Media Studies, 2021
In the present paper I define Mona Eltahawy’s viral Twitter campaigns, #DearSister (2017) and #MosqueMeToo (2018), and her broad journalistic activism as a novel form of Islamic feminism, “adversarial Islamic feminism.” Provocative, angry, and highly ...
Dilyana Mincheva
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Veracity of women’s land ownership in the aftermath of land redistribution in Zimbabwe: The limits of Western feminism

, 2020
Women’s land ownership through land reform all over the world has taken place on a gendered, incremental basis. The percentage of women land owners in Zimbabwe was less than 5% before and soon after independence, thereafter rising to a range of 12% to 27%
K. Zvokuomba, K. Batisai
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Towards a Reframing of Non-Western Feminisms

2023
Syinat Sultanalieva
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