This paper interrogates some common assumptions about social movements, focusing on the relationship between feminist protest events and institution-building. It uses data from a unique project tracking the evolution of the Australian women’s movement to consider how feminist protests, feminist services and feminist policy agencies developed in the Australian sub-national state of New South Wal...

The International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is a new journal that aims to stimulate not only inter-disciplinary research relating to health, but even an entire new generation of such journals. The challenges of improving human health worldwide clearly suggest ‘why’ such a journal is needed, but ‘how’ bridges and junctions across fields of study towards this end might be fo...

Feminism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have often been considered opposing theoretical and intellectual traditions. This paper imagines a meeting between these seemingly divergent fields and considers the theoretical and methodological challenges that ANT and feminism raise for one another. This paper examines an empirical project that calls for an engagement with both ANT and feminism. Throug...

This study is based on clinical sociological principles derived from Durkheim's and Weber's theories, as well as from contemporary research findings which suggest that religion and feminism can be social sources of empowerment for women. The theoretical orientation therefore incorporates social and cultural influences on behavior, as well as the intrapsychic and interpersonal decision-making pr...

This article discusses suggestions for integrating feminist epistemology, theory, pedagogy, and praxis even more intentionally into existing U.S. teacher education curricula. The premise is that in light of recent 21st century women’s empowerment movements, such ideas should be examined integrated fully justice-oriented programs. Supporting them with a review the relevant literature, author off...

Abstract This chapter presents an overview of feminist legal and political thought, aiming at discussing the different perspectives within thought. In first part, basic concepts in thought such as gender, patriarchy, feminism are explained, a brief historical evolution movements is provided. The other two sections focus greater detail on theories, respectively, including critical analysis influ...