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DAWN works under the gender, ecology and economic justice (GEEJ) framework, which highlights the linkages between these three advocacy areas. The network offers a forum for feminist advocacy, research, and analysis on global social, political, and economic issues affecting women, with a focus on poor and marginalized women of the global South.
Global feminism is also known as world feminism and international feminism. During a seminar hosted at the Harvard Kennedy School in early 2021, Dr. Zoe Marks—a lecturer at the Kennedy School specialising in gender and intersectional inequality and African politics——adapts bell hooks' definition of feminism in relation to her talk on ...
Sharmila Rege (7 October 1964 – 13 July 2013) [1] was an Indian sociologist, feminist scholar and author of Writing Caste, Writing Gender. [2] She led the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, (the department of Gender Studies) at University of Pune which position she occupied since 1991. [3]
In that context, feminist perspective is criticized for providing a more politically engaged way of looking at issues than a problem-solving way. Robert Keohane has suggested that feminists formulate verifiable problems, collect data, and proceed only scientifically when attempting to solve issues. [32]
A transnational feminist network (TFN) is a network of women's groups who work together for women's rights at both a national and transnational level. They emerged in the mid-1980s as a response to structural adjustment and neoliberal policies, guided by ideas categorized as global feminism. [1]
Feminist foreign policy, or feminist diplomacy, is a strategy integrated into the policies and practices of a state to promote gender equality, and to help improve women's access to resources, basic human rights, and political participation. It can often be bucketed into three categories: rights, resources, and representation.
Feminist constructivism focuses upon the study of how ideas about gender influence global politics. [1] It is the communication between two postcolonial theories; feminism and constructivism, and how they both share similar key ideas in creating gender equality globally. [2]
Written from a feminist point of view and drawing from statistical data, Waring challenges the assumptions underlying national income accounting.In particular, she problematises the fact that women's unpaid work as well as the value of nature are not accounted for in national income accounting, which, according to her, implies a sexual discrimination that allows for the continued domination of ...