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Re-orienting Western Feminisms

1997
The agenda of contemporary western feminism focuses on equal participation in work and education, reproductive rights, and sexual freedom. But what does feminism mean to the women of rural India who work someone else's fields, young Thai girls in the sex industry in Bangkok, or Filipino maids working for wealthy women in Hong Kong?
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White wars: Western feminisms and the `War on Terror'

Feminist Theory, 2007
The War on Terror is reconfiguring the practices that constitute whiteness through its definition of the West as endangered by the hatred and violence of its Islamist Other. Critical race and feminist theorists have long defined `whiteness' as a form of subjectivity that is socially constructed, historically contextual, and inherently unstable.
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The Western Gaze and African Feminism

This chapter serves as a mechanism of recognizing and acknowledging the illegitimacy of historic and traditional western approaches to narratives of African feminist epistemology. These approaches have engendered lenses of perspective which are irrefutably skewed by colonialism and whose address is warranted in ensuring both a means of learning about ...
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Women of Cinema: Indian and Western Femineity on Screen

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
Cinema serves as a compact reflection of the world we inhabit, and its portrayal of women elucidates the current condition of women in our society. Throughout history, the craft of narrative construction through a camera has undergone significant evolution.
Princi Mishra, Dr. Rachana Gangwar
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Asian Perspectives on Western Feminism: Interrogating the Assumptions

China Report, 2002
Copyright © 2002 SAGE Publications ; Chilla ...
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Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran

2023
<p>Nima Naghibi makes powerful connections among feminism, imperialism, and the discourses of global sisterhood. Naghibi investigates topics including the state-sponsored Women’s Organization of Iran and the involvement of feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the Iranian feminism movement.
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Feminism and Fatherhood in Western Europe, 1900–1950s

Journal of Women's History, 2014
This article focuses on work-life balance: the combination of work outside the home with parental and domestic responsibilities. Today, problems arising from work-life balance constitute an important obstacle to gender equality. Most commentators have defined this as a women’s problem, but others argue that until men assume an equal share of ...
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A Review on The History of Western Feminism

Qalaai Zanist Scientific Journal, 2023
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Western and Eastern Perspectives of Feminism

Makhz, 2022
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Contemporary Western European Feminism

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1994
Mary Hawkesworth, Gisela Kaplan
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