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Street harassment is a form of sexual terrorism that reminds women of their vulnerability to violent assault in public and semipublic spaces. Black women’s experiences of street harassment are complicated by their race, and by the race of their harasser(s). Black feminists’ political vocabulary of intersectional analysis offers a useful framework for portraying the indivisibility of race and ge...

Using the case of Sri Lanka, this paper argues that plantations were patriarchal institutions that perpetuated structural violence against women workers. ‘Plantation patriarchy’ incorporated social hierarchies and gender biases stemming from colonialism, race, caste, ethnicity, religion and culture into the structure of the labour regime and in the social organisation on plantations, justifying...

Abstract This chapter presents an overview of feminist legal and political thought, aiming at discussing the different perspectives within thought. In first part, basic concepts in thought such as gender, patriarchy, feminism are explained, a brief historical evolution movements is provided. The other two sections focus greater detail on theories, respectively, including critical analysis influ...

This article seeks to understand the positions of three Rio de Janeiro journals, Careta, Fon-Fon and O Malho, in terms a woman’s role concept “modern family” during first half twentieth century, whether as daughter, wife, or mother. Based on modern patriarchy, we seek new forms patriarchy republican Brazil how these affected women’s behavior, their everyday lives family sphere social power dyna...