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This work is based on a theoretical research study on Southern Feminisms and Social Intervention developed at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The South is understood as a metaphor for human suffering systematically caused by the oppression and domination of an imperialist, capitalist, colonial and patriarchal North. It is a very powerful geo-corporate-political and epistemological metaphor because it reveals and problematises the devices used for oppression and domination. This article uses cartography as a methodology to make explicit the analytical and interpretative matrices present in decolonial feminisms and community feminisms. It also makes explicit the criticisms that these feminisms make of hegemonic-academic-Western feminism. Contributions from feminist experiences in Australia and New Zealand are included and the specific contributions of Southern Feminisms to the theory and practice of social work are made explicit.

Cover -- SOCIAL FEMINISM -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I THEORY -- 1. Defining Feminism -- 2. Traditions of Analyzing Feminism -- 3. A Feminist Classification of Feminisms -- 4. A Feminist Approach to Social Science -- 5. Choosing a Subject -- PART II THE WOMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD -- 6. Feminism and the Co-operative Movement -- 7. Women Co-operators, Not Women Co-operating -- 8. "The Mothers' International": Feminist Pacifism -- PART III L'UNION FEMININE CIVIQUE ET SOCIALE -- 9. Social Catholicism and Social Feminism -- 10. Women's Work and Politics -- 11. Feminism and Reproduction -- 12. Volunteerism or Politics? -- PART IV THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS -- 13. Origins of Nonpartisanship -- 14. Goals as They Changed Over Time -- 15. The League and Its Feminist Identity -- 16. The Politics of the League of Women Voters -- PART V THE FUTURE: RISKS AND POSSIBILITIES -- 17. Organizational Lessons -- 18. Theoretical Lessons -- 19. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Sources -- Index.

This volume illuminates the encounter of feminist activism with scholarship in political science, cultural studies, sociology, ethnic studies, and economics. The essays contribute images of the forces that lead to the development of many different kinds of feminisms and womens movements across the globe in the 20th century and recently. They explore the cultural constructions and legitimations of sustainability during the processes through which various agents interpret the relevance of feminisms for their social and political initiatives. The volume offers new dimensions on the relationships across time and place among activisms and scholarships, as ways to contemplate how feminisms are sustainable and whether there is a future beyond sustainability. This book gives a genealogical account of various different kinds of feminisms. It offers new dimensions on the relationships across time and place among activisms and scholarships. It investigates and discusses how feminisms are sustainable.

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This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.