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Examines the 1981 no-wash protest of women in Ireland's Armagh prison in the context of discourses of Mother Ireland, & contrasts how those who participated in the protest inside the prison discussed it with representations of the protest from feminists who often had conflicting agendas. Data from a publication of the Sinn Fein, documentary video, & books on the protest show that, in its insistence on women as political beings capable of taking political action, the no-wash protest brought the image of Mother Ireland into a state of crisis. However, a generational gap is discerned between older prisoners, who still clung to the traditional image of Mother Ireland, & younger ones, who found it not only an inadeqaute representation of women, but also a potentially damaging one. It is suggested that this generation gap represents a new possibility for articulation as the social formation & historical forces change. Recent feminist readings of the no-wash protest, particularly those of Margaretta D'Arcy (1991) & Elizabeth Shannon (1989), are interpreted as examples of such articulations that, while often working at cross-purposes, nonetheless demonstrate the power of the protest to incite new imaginative understandings of feminist subjectivity. D. M. Smith

The authors' analysis of a group of latency-age children suggests that self-in-relation theory, a feminist theory of development, can be an effective intervention with latency-age boys. The theory is described and implications for clinical practice are discussed.

AbstractThis article aims to describe how contemporary societies dominated by racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy view and treat silence as an emptiness to be avoided. Without denying the importance of breaking from the silence of oppression, I argue that the dialectic between norms and silences is at the foundation of sociocultural life. Moreover, silence in feminist theory can be understood as a form of décrochage (lit. "unhooking") from hegemonic norms, thus opening spaces of doubt and questioning (or spaces of vraisemblance). Dwelling in these spaces, which I believe is the predicament of feminist anthropology, allows us to craft the sociocultural, artistic, and theoretical tools to engage in a state of becoming and emancipation.

Feminist theories act as "subversive strategies," revealing the partialities, distortions, & contradictions inherent to the patriarchal text & practice of realism, thereby seeking to undermine its dominance & power within international relations (IR) discourses. Through reviewing multiple feminist critiques of IR concepts, theory, & practice, ranging from the peripheralized issues of development & peace to the core concerns of state politics & interstate relations, it is argued that feminist postpositivist perspectives offer the most subversive potential for demarginalizing & empowering women & other subjugated groups within IR theory & international politics. AA

This paper constructed on former work by the authors and on the succeeding literature. It argues that a feminist research provides a powerful tool in assisting us to understand women's lives, their experiences, their concerns based on gender discrimination.This paper seek for empowerment and liberation of women by conceptualizing and thinking about the findings of feminist researchs which are often applied to promote social changes and social justice for women.The paper begins by outlining why the theorization of term 'feminist methodology' is used to tag an ideal approach for conducting feminist research which reveals that the basic premise of feminist theory is that women have been excluded from traditional philosophy. In Pakistan, especially in Punjab, women inferior and subordinated status is in practice, including women's political deprived affiliation to contest election and cast the vote. Such circumstances tend to make them less empowered.In addition, the relational analyses of liberal feminism and ethnographic structure of the Punjabi society shows a strong correlation that justifies the position of researchers to select a liberal feminist theory as a theoretical framework.The only way to bring changes in such traditional societies are gradual process of reforms. So, strategies of liberal feminists can be more successful as reformists rather than radicals, socialists and Marxists.

This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative account of agency, which underplays the creative dimension present in the responses of individuals to changing social relations. An understanding of this creative element is central to a theory of autonomous agency, and also to an explanation of the ways in which women and men negotiate changes within gender relations. In exploring

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In this book Hay argues that the moral and political frameworks of Kantianism and liberalism are indispensable for addressing the concerns of contemporary feminism. After defending the use of these frameworks for feminist purposes, Hay uses them to argue that people who are oppressed have an obligation to themselves to resist their own oppression.

This special issue explores intersections of feminism, postcolonialism, and technoscience. The papers emerged out of a 2014 research seminar on Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. Through innovative engagement with rich empirical cases and theoretical trends in postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and STS, the papers trace local and global circulations of technoscience. They illuminate ways in which science and technology are imbricated in circuits of state power and global inequality and in social movements resisting the state and neocolonial orders. The collection foregrounds the importance of feminist postcolonial STS to our understandings of technoscience, especially how power matters for epistemology and justice.