...Nancy Fraser This essay explores the possibility for twenty-first-century feminism to retrieve the insurrectionary spirit of women's liberation. It begins by charting the shift from a feminist imaginary focused on egalitarian redistribution to a feminist imaginary founded on recognition of cultural...

...Lisa Disch This essay revisits the work of Christine Delphy, a leading activist in the women's liberation movement in France and a leading materialist feminist theorist whom many US feminist scholars have written off as a “seventies feminist”: she not only published one of her most-read pieces...

...Elspeth Probyn In this essay I want to chart some of the ways that choice has been articulated around women. In the West, choice is the benign bedrock of our society. Be that in regard to the consumer imperative of choice to the all-pervasive political philosophy of self-fashioning...

... Press . Hesford Victoria . 2013 . Feeling Women's Liberation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Lisa Disch Introduction ​The 1970s.  A crucial epoch for Western femi- nism, not just politically but also narratively...

.../politics. She is currently writing a book on political representation. She is the author of The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (2002). Christine Delphy is a sociologist and a leading activist and theorist of the women’s liberation movement in France. She was part of the original edito- rial...

... with the cultural artifacts through which she forges those connections. Prevalent among these artifacts are some of the classic texts of 1970s gay and women’s liberation, which Bechdel draws either in neat stacks in her...

... University Press . Atkinson Ti-Grace . 1970 . “The Institution of Sexual Intercourse.” In Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation: Major Writings of the Radical Feminists , edited by Firestone Shulamith Koedt Anne , 42 – 47 . New York : Radical Feminism . Atkinson Ti...

... . Strongman SaraEllen . 2018 . “ The Sisterhood: Black Women, Black Feminism, and the Women's Liberation Movement .” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania . Tambe Ashwini , and Thayer Millie , eds. 2021 . Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice...

... in The House That Matriarchy Built  55 the liberation of Sudan or a place for them in the country (ibid., 157). She gives the SCP credit for being the first party in Sudan “to open its doors to women, to ‘teach’ them the Marxist-Leninist concept of organization, and to politicize them in the male...

... Marie-Aimée . 1999 . “ Women, Nationalism, and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle .” In Gibson 1999 : 271 – 82 . Hemmings Clare . 2011 . Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Irigaray Luce . 2005...

... York: Columbia University Press. Dworkin, Andrea. 2000. Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation. New York: Free Press. Euben, Roxanne L. 2002. “Killing (for) Politics: Jihad, Martyrdom, and Political Action.” Political Theory 30, no. 1: 4–35. doi:10.1177...

... . Hemmings Clare . 2011 . Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Hesford Victoria . 2013 . Feeling Women's Liberation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jameson Fredric . 1973 . “The Vanishing Mediator: Narrative...

... Collective Statement .” In How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective . Chicago : Haymarket Books . Van Houten Christina . 2015 . “ Simone de Beauvoir Abroad: Historicizing Maoism and the Women’s Liberation Movement .” Comparative Literature Studies 52 : 1...

..., by normalizing their labor through appropriating late-capital- Swift Toxic Positivity? 595 ist scripts of entrepreneurial selfhood. They also pursued social change by battling patriarchal, bourgeois sexual norms that excluded (women) sex workers from liberal democratic society and reimaging the sex worker...

... . . .  that's tense . —Hannah Gadsby, Nanette (2018) The time has come to think about men. More than a half century since the astonishing rise of US women's liberation, feminism remains synonymous with women's oppression. Even though men are directly implicated as both perpetrators and victims...

... associated with the idea that women have a natural handicap, which for certain feminists becomes a natural “power”; but, handicap or power, the problematic remains the same, as I demonstrated in “Women’s Liberation or Corporatist Rights of Mothers” [“Liberation des femmes ou droits corporatistes des...

... and spiritual rituals to prepare for and mark death, political changes have produced yet another discourse that has shaped understandings of women’s bodies and women’s health in particu- lar: the maternity reform movement. This movement, which developed in the context of women’s liberation and other...

... are drawn from every segment of society educational privileges being now extended to nonciti­ zens, felons, and women liberal education has become in effect an anach­ ronism, for there is no general agreement, except in terms impractically vague, about what education ought to free students to become...

... is a masked gunman, wielding a Muslim flag. Article  of Hamas’s charter would be an apt caption for this cartoon: ‘‘The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play...

... no serious feminist intellectual circle is Janice Raymond's Transsexual Empire a subject of debate, and the vitriolic anti-trans rhetoric of groups like the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) finds them aligned with political conservatives like Governor Greg Abbott and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and thus...