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ABSTRACT In this paper I analyze Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and her TED Talk based off her book, "We Should All be Feminists." Adichie is a Nigerian woman who has firsthand experience with feminist issues of inequality and she serves as a speaker and activist for issues of feminism and beyond. She is a renowned author, activist, academic, and a feminist. In hearing of her personal experiences regarding inequality, I realized I am able to identify parallels between her experiences and the inequalities which I have faced despite our vastly different origin stories. The importance of her work as a feminist is emphasized in her rhetorical techniques, such as using personal narratives and public vocabulary to bring connection and a sense of equality to her audience. Adichie urges society to modify their actions in order to promote and normalize feminism in a positive light.

Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469-1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue-the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of later

Do forces that impacted feminist beliefs in the past, such as gender and generation, impact feminist beliefs today within the context of abortion policy support? While the abortion rights issue was framed during the feminist movement era as a feminist issue, it is now clearly framed along partisan and ideological lines. Public opinion on issues that percolated through the feminist movement and identified as feminist issues in the past may no longer be viewed as feminist issues today. The abortion rights issue was chosen because of the oft-held perception that it is solely a women's issue. The strong association of abortion rights with the feminist movement makes opinion on abortion rights an appropriate domain in which to analyze the relative impact of gender, generation and feminist beliefs on policy support. Data from the 2004 American National Election Study showed that neither gender nor generation achieved a significant impact on feminist beliefs. Men's and women's exposure to the feminist movement, the ideals that the movement sought, and certain policies advanced by the movement, such as abortion rights, achieve disparate impact across generations among women and among men. These findings are critical when one questions how feminist policy questions will be approached and responded to by the public and political elites in the future as feminist beliefs may be a less meaningful precursor to both feminist policy support and issues framed in feminist terms than they have been in the past.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Organizational Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Soul of Women's Lib -- 2 No Longer Divided against Ourselves -- 3 Barbecue and Bake Sales Won't Fund a Movement -- 4 Black Women's Issues as Feminist Issues -- 5 Black Feminist Identities in Contestation -- 6 War-Weary Warriors -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Interviews by Organization -- Appendix B: Interview Questions -- Appendix C: Statements of Purpose -- Notes -- Index

This paper is a response to scholars who have called for exploring and interrogating new strategies of data collection and new approaches to more traditional methods, such as interviewing in the context of the internet. Drawing on feminist standpoint theory, 'reflexive email interviewing' is proposed as a method for feminist research. The method is illustrated using a recent case study of email interviews with self-identified women who are members of World Pulse, an online community that aims to unite and amplify women's voices worldwide. Through this case study, issues of power and resistance in the researcher/researched relationship and of participant reflexivity are interrogated. Lastly, criteria for reflexive email interviewing are proposed, including 1) strategies to interrogate and disrupt power hierarchies within the research process, 2) researcher reflexivity as a continuous part of the research process, and 3) continued invitations for participants to directly reflect on and respond to the research process. Reflexive questions are offered for researchers to use during research design and in each phase of their research process to ensure reflexivity is achieved.

Feminist epistemology implies an approach to the theory of knowledge, which
in its centre sets up feminist issues. The paper analyzes a recent course in
the area dealing with feminist epistemology, namely feminist empiricism.
Unlike other feminists engaged in epistemology, their goal is to keep the
basic concepts of the analytic tradition, but considered in the light of
feminist interests. Starting from Quine?s naturalized epistemology, feminist
empiricists are introducing different concepts of knowledge and the nature of
the knowers, creating a new perspective on the relationship of
sociopolitical values and scientific research. The feminist empiricist?s
advantage over feminist epistemology approaches outside the analytical
framework is precisely in accepting the naturalistic and empiricist approach
to gender biases. The aim is to evaluate how successful they are in achieving
their ideas, and whether such an approach is acceptable.