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Foucault Studies
Post-liberation Feminism and Practices of Freedom2013 •
Most feminist theorists over the last forty years have held that a basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group are oppressed. The concept of oppression has never had a very broad meaning in liberal discourse, however, and with the rise of neo-liberalism since 1980 it has even less currency in public debate. This article argues that, while we may still believe women are oppressed, for pragmatic purposes Michel Foucault’s concept of practices of freedom is a more effective way to characterize feminist theory and politics.
Shift. International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Feminisms and subversions in the global present2021 •
The analysis shows how the obstacle of atemporality for women’s self-determination has been overturned, at certain moments in history, because an unforeseen subject – singular and plural decided to speak up, revolutionizing the patriarchal logics of sexuation and colonization of the world. Beginning with the contributions on this subject offered by difference feminism and Black feminist thought, the work focuses on the need to consider the multiple demands made by women on a transnational scale for a politics of liberation commensurate with the global present.
European Jnl Women's Studies
"We Will Not be Pacified:" from freedom fighters to feminists2020 •
Whether hailed for transitioning to the ballot box, or condemned for failing to hold elections, Africa's postcolonial states exhibit profound contradictions in the arena of gender politics. Where reforms have been achieved, implementation remains minimal, as undemocratic state structures and uncivil societies alike lack the political will to change. This article addresses the emergence of feminism as an intellectual and political force for freedom that radically challenges the ongoing exploitation and oppression of women in Africa. It focuses on the contribution of radical intellectuals to the theory and practice of women's movements, arguing that the research, analysis, and activism they carry out defines them as a radical public intellectual cadre that continuously mobilizes with, by, and for women to pursue liberation for themselves as much as others.
Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love, politics and performance, joy and anguish in a collection of essays focussed on the history and politics of the Women's Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots, Women's Studies, in Australia and around the world. These are serious matters: they are about tectonic changes in people's lives and ideas in the late twentieth century, too little remembered or understood any longer. 'Feminism', this book suggests, 'is always multiple and various, fluid and changing, defying efforts at definition, characterisation, periodisation'. Nevertheless, Dangerous Ideas tackles some hard questions. How did Women's Liberation begin? What held this transformative movement together? Would it bring about the death of the family? Was it reorganising the labour market? Revolutionising human reproduction? How could Women's Studies exist in patriarchal universities? Could feminism change the paradigms governing the world of learning? In the United States? In Russia? In the People's Republic of China? It is great fun, too. This book tells of Hobart's hilarious Feminist Food Guide; of an outburst of creative energies among feminists -- women on top, behaving badly; of dreams and desires for an entirely different future. And, always unorthodox: it finds hope and cheer in a history of the tampon.
Despite its recent emergence, the international feminist movement FEMEN quickly spread across the world from its European roots. It caught both the attention and the criticism of the public with its controversial means of demonstrations. In this paper, I describe the main issues surrounding the public discourse and practices of FEMEN activists. This analysis from a postcolonial feminist perspective on social relations of genders and ethnicities draws from the work of the anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod, the sociologists Chandra T.Mohanty and Zahra Ali, among others. Much of FEMEN’s discourse spawns from stereotypes that are deeply related to orientalism and, as such, I use Edward Said’s critical theory to analyse them. I argue that FEMEN contributes to reinforce the stigmatization of Muslim communities, especially by culturalising sexism through the projection of blame on global-south countries, thereby reproducing hierarchical monolithic blocks, just as Said described in 1978. In this sense, the activist group FEMEN displays a prime example of the feminist “salvation” rhetoric. Thus, I expose the consequences of this type of Islamophobic colonial feminism in both international relations and feminist struggles. I also describe how the FEMEN movement tends to generalize, simplify, homogenize and, ultimately, deny how diverse the experiences of women are throughout the world. This is the case despite their claim to establish a “transnational solidarity” between all women. I take a look at the potentially harmful repercussions of FEMEN’s particular kind of public protests , both among the feminist movements themselves and among women in the targeted postcolonial countries. In this analysis, I expose several shortcomings of the discourses and practices of FEMEN, such as their limited representation of women, their will to impose their values (said to be universal) and, predominately, their pretention to save Muslim women, whom they see as passive and alienated. The universalist outlook of FEMEN reveals, at its core, an imperialistic ideology, if only culturally so.
Decolonizing Europe, edited by M. Faye-Rexhepi, M. de Groot, E. Inghelbrecht, A. Narsee, A. Oleart, J. Pankowska, L. Strehmann. Amsterdam: Common Grounds, 2023. Online at: decolonial.eu/booklet
What Does It Mean To Decolonize?2023 •
Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy
Provisionalidad, prudencia y resolución: el espíritu del escepticismo académico en las críticas de Hume y Kant a la metafísica tradicionalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Orientation-specific responses to sustained uniaxial stretching in focal adhesion growth and turnover2013 •
Journal of Arabic Studies in Education and Psychology
فاعلیة برنامج تدریبی مقترح قائم على التعلم الذاتی لتوعیة المشرفات التربویات بالکفایات الإشرافیة اللازمة فی اقتصاد المعرفة " Effectiveness of the Proposed Self-Learning Based Training Program for the Development of Supervisory Competencies Necessary to Guide the Processes of Learning and Education...2018 •
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Italian Journal of Geosciences
Forward Modelling of Bouguer Anomalies along a transect of the Southern Apennines and the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy)2021 •
Revista Criação & Crítica
Uma leitura do amor a partir da crítica literária feminista: um exercício ético, estético e político2023 •