Abstract This article explores how Spanish women formed grassroots groups to fight for the transformation of their neighbourhoods in late 1950s and 1960s — latter years Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. In contrast most histories feminism, which focus on literate, secular universities or centres cities, its subjects are activists based outskirts Madrid industrial areas Asturias, many whom were C...

Feminism has a variety of meanings. According to Nikki Craske, despite the often-heated debates about the meaning of feminism, most would likely concur with Rosalind Delmar’s assessment that feminism attempts to transform women from object to subject, specifically with respect to knowledge. In other words, feminism and by extension feminist activism is about centering the lives of women. Sonia ...

The feminist movement is experiencing the rise of a new generation characterized by specific phenomena linked to technological progress, such as hashtivism, i.e., mobilization through social media. With aim contributing extending our knowledge implications Twitter for this well other movements, article examined eight most common Spanish- and English-language hashtags used commemorate 25 Novembe...

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...

A group of established feminist legal scholars are translating third-wave ideas and methodologies into a vibrant legal theory. These scholars do not acknowledge explicitly the influence of third-wave feminism, but they embrace its theoretical commitments as they attempt to redefine the relationship between feminism and the law. This paper explores three works in particular: Janet Halley’s book,...