Introduction............................................................................................75 I. Defeating Gender Inequality.....................................................79 A. Post-Feminism......................................................................81 B. Neoliberal Feminism............................................................86 II. Perpetuating Gender Inequa...

While human rights law remains the foremost tool for advancement of women’s rights, particularly in eyes lawyers and legal scholars, this article highlights other approaches struggle gender equality worthy attention. Elsewhere author has argued that hegemony Western thought feminist theory inhibited recognition across globe a variety different epistemologies, discourses, are being used advancin...

There are a variety of ways that one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. Sandra Harding refers to this approach ...

The predominance of patriarchally-based structures in Kristeva’s work sets up an uncomfortable dichotomy for feminist critics. Her 1979 essay ‘Le temps des femmes’ (translated as ‘Women’s Time’ in 1981) most explicitly articulates her own approach to feminism, addressing women’s troubled relationship to patriarchy in terms of time and space. Kristeva identifies three distinct positions in femin...

“islamic feminism” is an analytical-descriptive title by which western observers identify the intellectual activities of muslim women. muslim female scholars of “islamic feminism”, though there is no consensus among them about this label, have various approaches and subjects of study in relation to the field of islam and gender. aziza al-hibri and kecia ali are two of these muslim scholars whos...