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MacKinnon takes Marxism as the theory's point of departure, arguing that unlike liberal theories, Marxism "confronts organized social dominance, analyzes it in dynamic rather than static terms, identifies social forces that systematically shape social imperatives, and seeks to explain social freedom both within and against history." She elaborates:
Kumari Jayawardena (Sinhala: කුමාරි ජයවර්ධන; born 1931) is a Sri Lankan feminist activist and academic. Her work is part of the canon of Third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminist philosophies as indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than offshoots of Western feminism.
[14] They label Hernes original theory of state feminism as being at the macro level. [14] Much research has connected state feminism to policy agencies, leaving a narrow scope. [14] To define the meso level they use Threlfall's description of state feminism, "result of the interplay between agitation from below and integration policy from ...
The book follows case studies about women at the front line of feminist, socialist and political movements across eleven countries in the East: Egypt, Iran, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, [2] that share a history of direct assault and hostility by imperialist regimes interested in ...
Feminist political theory is a recently emerging field in political science focusing on gender and feminist themes within the state, institutions and policies. It questions the "modern political theory, dominated by universalistic liberalist thought, which claims indifference to gender or other identity differences and has therefore taken its ...
Along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, Cixous is considered one of the mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. [14] In the 1970s, Cixous began writing about the relationship between sexuality and language. Like other poststructuralist feminist theorists, Cixous believes that our sexuality is directly tied to how we communicate in ...
In 1992, she was co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics published in 1991 (awarded for Engendering Democracy). She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University [ 3 ] in 1999; was appointed adjunct professor in the political science programme of the ...
Laura Elizabeth Sjoberg (born February 19, 1979) [3] [4] is an American feminist scholar of international relations and international security.Her work specializes in gendered interpretations of just war theory, feminist security studies, and women's violence in global politics.