The use of restorative justice for gendered violence has been debated in the feminist literature for some time. Critics warn that it is inappropriate because the process and outcomes are not sufficiently formal or stringent, and victims may be revictimized. Proponents assert that a restorative justice process may be better for victims than court because it holds offenders accountable and gives ...

The paper develops key notions needed for a feminist embodiment approach to drugs, their use and users. First, the term embodied deviance is defined in relationship to women drug users. Second, the bodily tasks of gendered drug use are defined to show how "normal" embodiment is foreclosed to women drug users. Third, disease regimes and epistemologies of ignorance are introduced. Fourth, another...

Social investment has gained increasing prominence in family policy reform. It also been widely criticised from a feminist and social justice perspective. This article examines how the meaning of changes when it is seen as site investment. Using discourse-analytical approach focusing on agenda setting documents Germany's ‘sustainable policy’ this explored four dimensions: extension simultaneous...

What explains white male animus against Asian women? We address this question by examining the murders in Atlanta, GA, which reflect a larger global pattern of violence what are perceived as hypersexualized women. Dominant discourses on these promote either narrative racial xenophobia or stance for sex work. Neither discourse adequately accounts simultaneous and gendered determination women’s e...

Around the year 1900, European discourse on art was becoming increasingly ‘esotericized’. The 1890s saw esoteric salons create a sensation in Paris, and critics theorists painted picture of true artist esotericist as overlapping figures. There also at time conflict regarding mediumistic art, phenomenon initially made popular through Spiritualist mediums. This debate, we shall see, had interesti...

This paper examines how media discourses on gender and work play a part in regulating the lives of community Pakistani diverse people, called Khawajasiras. Developing critical discourse analysis news, we show this regulatory process results discursive mechanisms positioning Khawajasiras' as “dirty” need “respectable” exclusively “feminine” alternatives. revolves around delegitimizing non-normat...

Across popular media and political discourse, subjects are increasingly addressed through the language of resilience – called upon to be positive, show ‘grit, ‘bounceback’ from adversity. In her latest book, Feminism The Politics Resilience: Essays on Gender, Media End Welfare (2020), Angela McRobbie offers an incisive analysis gendered address that this call takes; teasing out its complex rela...

COVID-19 triggers urgent questions about the social, political and ethical implications of care markets, practices relations. This article presents analysis Houses Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response exposing current discourses in Ireland. Utilising Trace method (Sevenhuijsen, 2004), grounded feminist ethics, reveals a state accountability exercise grappling with failures market i...

Suzanne de Castell is a professor of curriculum and instruction at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6; e-mail: [email protected]. Her interests centre on relations between media and epistemology, with particular reference to problems of knowledge formation, non-formal learning, and game-based curriculum design. Her recent publications include ‘Object lessons: Towards an education...