This volume is a detailed participant–observer account of feminist psychology over the last quarter of the last century. Unger is well positioned in this body of research, having edited and authored numerous textbooks and research publications on women, gender, and psychology, as well as having been president of the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35). Unger presents an author...

Perhaps a better (rhetorical) question would be: “What wasn’t feminist about our project?” These days, there are certainly many different cultural feminist events in general (eg: women’s poetry readings, women’s folk music festivals, women’s art exhibits, the Vagina Monologues, etc). Many music schools and other music organizations (eg: Eastman School of Music, Indiana University of Pennsylvani...

This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am c...

This paper will analyze the emerging law and economics justification for alimony. It will argue that while the economic justification for alimony contains some important insights, feminists and other family law scholars should ultimately be wary of attempting to justify postdivorce incomesharing by relying primarily on economic efficiency grounds. Part I of the paper will briefly sketch the his...

In this article I consider the field of HIV treatment and prevention in light of poststructural feminist critiques of the self-evidence of matter. Both HIV and poststructural feminist theory are viewed in relation to the current state of HIV scientific research of which it has been said: ‘much remains left to the imagination’ (McCune, 2001, emphasis added). Importantly, it is in the absence of ...

Male Feminists find themselves in the weird position of opposing entrenched patriarchal gender hierarchies while effectively reinforcing them. The question arises, am I a man or a Feminist? This question is seated in a seemingly oppositional relationship between the culturally masculine, the culturally male, and the positive theory of Feminist thought. In this paper, I attempt to provide a way ...

Professor Arras' article' provides a fascinating and persuasive account of an important shift in bioethics. The move from theory-based systems of ethics to narrative-based systems of ethics is paralleled by shifts in several related fields. In legal theory, one can see this development in the rise of legal pragmatism and the questioning of abstract and comprehensive theories, whether those theo...

islamic feminism and the feminist movement that has influenced the west in recent decades have spread in muslim countries, including iran, to such an extent that most supporters of women`s rights introduce themselves as muslim feminist and try to present a new comment of traditional and original understanding of islamic teachings in harmony with their claims. the most important foundations of i...