Feminism in Australia is a political movement and a published discourse. Its activities range from Equal Employment Opportunity practices in the public service to 'cultural' production in such forms as academic literature and documentary film-making. For most immigrant women of non-English speaking background, the cultural arena of feminism is foreign, in many more ways than one. Feminism repre...

Introduction This paper offers a feminist critique of corporate law and corporations. It will discuss some of the more traditional legal theories of corporate law and argue that these theories are inadequate in evaluating the effects that corporations have on people because they do not question the political and economic context they exist in. These theories treat capitalism as a given and, the...

Abstract In this article we explore how Swedish citizens perceive security threats, and threat perceptions overlap with ideology, trust demographics. The results show that concerns over threats are foremost connected to an authoritarian outlook. addition, four typical groups of orientations were identified. On the one end spectrum, found group anti-immigrant, anti-feminist anti-egalitarian opin...

In this article, we apply three theoretical frameworks, poststructural feminism, queer, and sociology of gender to the issue of intimate partner violence (IPV) in order to better account for heterosexual female perpetration and same-sex IPV. Although the traditional feminist paradigm—that assumes men use violence as an extension of patriarchy against their female victims—has been useful in expl...

Recycled, re-engineered and transformed pornography has often been appropriated by many of the industrial music movement’s female personalities who are invested in an anti-censorship discourse. This contrasts with dominant form feminism 1970s, which railed against depiction all aspects sexuality. Artists Cosey Fanni Tutti, Lisa Carver, Diamanda Galás, Mïrka Lugosi, Antal Nemeth, Diana Rogerson ...

Defenders of multiculturalism have been recently criticized for failing to address gender inequality in minority cultures. Multiculturalism would seem incompatible with a commitment to feminism. This article discusses two empirical cases that pose a problem for public policy in the Netherlands: a conflict over wearing headscarves (hijab) and requests for surgical hymen repair. These cases evoke...