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 The
Invention of Women : Making an African Sense of Western Gender
Discourses by Oyeronke
Oyewumi.
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western
one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work
that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of
Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western
cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western,
body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender
discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical
nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that
gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that
social organization was determined by relative age....
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Insightful and funny, Fair Game, Stephanie Piro's daily cartoon
panel, presents a woman positive view of the world covering everything from love and relationships to teens, family life, cats,
dogs and space aliens.
Her unique and original cartoons can also be seen on her line of T-shirts, books and other items
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Toward Developing a "Feminist" Answer to the
Surrogate Motherhood Question Rosemarie Tong, writing in Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Journal 6.1 (1996) argues that "bioethicists should work toward developing the
kind of shared theoretical base that will foster frequent consensus on the biomedical
principles, practices, and policies most likely to serve the interests of most women in
the U.S. today." Note: part of Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press - may be
available only to subscribing institutions.
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The Feminist Chronicles provide a timeline of
significant events from 1953 - 1993 "Instead of what the media and many scholars
think women have been doing, find out what women have really been doing for the past four
decades: read The Feminist Chronicles. Expanding outward from NOW, the largest feminist
organization in the world, this provides a breadth, depth, and diversity that should be on
every historian's desk, and every bedside table for a nightly dose of, 'I didn't know
that!'"
-Gloria Steinem, Noted Feminist and Author |
Feminist List serves
French-Feminism
An electronic forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in the works of writers who
constitute French feminist thought. Women-Writing-Culture
The focus is on ethnography and anthropology and the challenges and problems encountered
as scholars in those fields "write culture" or even "write against
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A special issue of Sociological
Research Online a British peer-reviewed online journal. This thematic issue is
compiled from previous issues but no dates are given for individual articles.
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Same Closet, Different Door: A
Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-out Party - Sexual Objectification and Visual Aspects of
Sexuality - The Radical Feminist Perspective in (and/or on) the Field of Sociology (a
meta-theoretical excursion) - Missing in Action: Radical Feminism and/or Poststructuralist
Feminism the Academy - Witch paper '86: Feminism, Orthodoxy, and Deviance - Rhythms,
Predictability, and Order.
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Sections on Violence, Legal
Texts, Biographies of Prominent Women Lawyers and Judges and more compiled and maintained
by Kim Dayton at the University of Kansas.
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The purpose of the Florida National Organization for
Women, Inc. is to take action to bring women into full participation in the
mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and
responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men. This includes,
but is not limited to, equal rights and responsibilities in all aspects of
citizenship, public service, employment, education and family life.
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Hypatia (Hy-pay-sha) aims to provide a forum for
important new work in feminist philosophy. Since its inception in 1986 as an independent
journal, Hypatia has been both a catalyst for broadening and refining feminist
philosophy, and an invaluable resource for those of us who teach in this area. Feminist
philosophy arises out of the diverse traditions and methods within philosophy, and
incorporates interdisciplinary perspectives. We believe that our disciplinary emphasis
should be linked to a commitment to publish articles accessible to a broad audience of
philosophers and women's studies scholars. This blend of focus and accessibility enables
Hypatia to be a resource for the wider women's studies community, for philosophers
generally, and for those interested in the philosophical issues raised by feminism. Hypatia
has its roots in the Society for Women in
Philosophy (SWIP), many of whose members had envisioned a regular publication devoted
to feminist philosophy. Hypatia is the realization of that vision; it is intended to
encourage and communicate many different kinds of feminist philosophy. |
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The Feminist Theory Website provides research materials and
information for students, activists, and scholars interested in women's conditions and
struggles around the world. The goals of this website are: 1) to encourage a wide range of
research into feminist theory, and 2) to encourage dialogue between women (and men) from
different countries around the world. Hopefully, this will result in new connections, new
ideas, and new information about feminist theory and women's movements. The Feminist
Theory Website has three parts:
1) fields within feminist theory
2) national / ethnic feminisms
3) individual feminists.
All of these parts are updated and expanded regularly.
This site includes pages on the following philosophers:
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| Card, Claudia
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| de Beauvoir, Simone
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| Fraser, Nancy
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| Friedman, Marilyn
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| Gimenez, Martha E.
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| Godard, Barbara
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| Grosz, Elizabeth
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| Haraway, Donna
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| Harding, Sandra
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| Heng, Geraldine
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| Hutcheon, Linda
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| Jaggar, Alison
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| Kabashnaya, Elenya
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| Kittay, Eva Feder
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| Knezevic, Djurdja
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| Koncz, Katalin
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| Kristeva, Julia
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| Levin, Carole
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| Levitt, Laura
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| Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Bracha
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| Longino, Helen
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| Luxemburg, Rosa
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| MacKinnon, Catharine
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| Maurer, Margarete
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| McAlister, Linda López
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| Mohammed, Patricia
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| Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
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| Oliver, Kelly
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| Pateman, Carole
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| Piper, Adrian
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| Pollock, Griselda
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| Spivak, Gayatri
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| Tong, Rosemarie
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The University of Maryland women's studies
database, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies
profession and in general women's issues. For information about the University's academic Women's Studies
Department.
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By Yvanka B. Raynova.
Philosophical and interdisciplinary Value Inquiry with the following focal points: 1) Classical and
contemporary theories of values, 2)Values in Sex-Gender Context, 3) Hermeneutics of Religion and
Culture, 4) Present process of transformation: Identity, Democracy, Globalisation and Justice, 5) Values and Praxis. Publication of
Labyrinth, an International Journal for
Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics.
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Essay by Anita Connolly.
This paper discusses the various definitions of what constitutes "valid" methodology. Feminist
research has frequently been criticized as being "non-sociological," or "non-empirical." This
paper concludes that it is not so much the methodology but the epistemological
relevance to the topic that matters. |
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