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An overview of the feminist theory literature on welfare policy and politics is presented. This introductory essay places a particular emphasis on the works that fall within the political sociology and normative political philosophy genres. In a lengthy digression, the article offers a tribute to the work of Iris Marion Young. It examines the centrality of her thinking about distribution, cultural marginalization, the welfare state bureaucracy, transnational responsibility and solidarity, and the pitfalls of maternalist discourse for this field. In the conclusion, the article makes brief remarks about each of the contributions to the special issue on Feminist Theory and Welfare.

This paper argues for a particular meaning of feminism, in terms of a political struggle against the social relations of male supremacy and for a human status for women outside male control. It starts by acknowledging there are conflicts over the meaning of feminism, but points out that these are not resolved by references to 'feminisms' in the plural. Neither, it goes on to argue, is feminism an 'identity politics'. Although feminism is centrally concerned with women, that concern is necessary because of the existence of social relations based on the principle that only men count as 'human'. In that sense, feminism is both social theory and critical theory. It is also radical feminism, and the paper mounts a defence of radical feminism against charges that it is 'essentialist', 'white and middle-class' and 'right-wing', while at the same time criticising the typology which defines radical feminism as simply one 'feminism' among many.

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This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events. A concept provides an event with an incorporeal lining, a virtual force that enables the event to give way to new and unpredictable effects. Feminist theory has produced a profound concept that has not yet been adequately understood: the concept of sexual difference, which has been elaborated in most detail in the writings of Luce Irigaray. This article explores how the concept of sexual difference, while addressing the event of the emergence of humanity in two distinct forms, produces the possibility of a new kind of politics and new kinds of social relations that do not reduce sexual difference to its patriarchal expressions.

Introduction: Theorizing Dalit feminism / Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore -- A critical view on intersectionality / Nivedita Menon -- Problems for a contemporary theory of gender / Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana -- Indian feminism and 'Dalit patriarchy' / Gopal Guru, V. Geetha, and Uma Chakravarti -- Dalit women's agency and Phule-Ambedkarite feminism / Shailaja Paik -- Ambedkarite women / Wandana Sonalkar -- Ramabai and Ambedkar / Sharmila Rege -- Brahmanical nature of violence against women / Sharmila Rege -- Vilifying Dalit women : epics and aesthetics / Vizia Bharati and Y.S. Alone -- Dalit women's autobiographies / Sharmila Rege -- 'Difference' through intersectionality / Kimberlé Crenshaw -- Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru -- Debating Dalit difference / Sharmila Rege -- Why intersectionality is necessary / S.J. Aloysius, J.P. Mangubhai and J.G. Lee -- The Dalit woman question / Susie Tharu -- Responses to Indian feminists' objections / Mary E. John and Meena Gopal -- Feminist fictions : a critique of Indian feminism / Julie Stephens -- Revitalising Dalit feminism / Smita M. Patil -- Dalit women's experience : toward a Dalit feminist theory / Kanchana Mahadevan.

Elizabeth Lancaster reflects on issues implicit in the continuing discussion concerning probation officers' approach to domestic violence. She argues that feminist theory is more diverse than is popularly understood and that a radical feminist analysis logically followed into practice poses difficulties for practitioners who, in reality, draw on varied theoretical perspectives.

Feminist research has expanded beyond its origins in Women's Studies to influence the more traditionally bounded academic disciplines. Criminology has not been immune to these excursions. This paper presents an overview of feminist theory/methods and its applications within select areas of crime and justice studies. Points of intra‐theoretical divergence as well as directions for future feminist contributions are noted.

Objective: Feminism has grown rapidly in the last 40 years as both a multidisciplinary voice advocating for change and an area of scholarship and theory building. A review of empirical articles describes 17 studies that indicate a wide range of applications of feminist theory, but theory is applied primarily as a lens for
other issues, rather than to expand theory development. Advocacy and philosophical views seem to overshadow theory development. Suggestions for improving feminist theory are offered.

Action, objective involvement, reflection, & criticism are necessary in developing a logic of social explanation than can account for the creation of F identity, explore F speech, redescribe social reality to allow & sustain critical reflection, conceptualize plausible alternatives to the present, & avoid repetition of past compulsions. The feminist analyses of Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex, New York: Bantam Books, 1968), Brian Fay (Social Theory and Political Practice, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975), & Marabel Morgan (The Total Woman, New York: Spire Books, 1973) are criticized for lacking a full understanding & making no explanation of the F situation. Understanding & explanation must precede critique if social inquiry is to avoid being a priori & presumptuous. Modified HA.

"Bonnie Honig invigorates debate over the politics of refusal by insisting that withdrawal from unjust political systems be matched with collective action to change them. Historical and fictional characters from Muhammad Ali to the Bacchants of ancient Greek tragedy teach us how to turn rejection into transformative efforts toward self-governance"--